Advice Request Do you use Secure Notes in your Password Manager?

[Ink]

Do you use the Secure Notes in your secure password manager to save notes?

 

[Divine_Barakah]

I store software activation codes and account backup codes in the secure notes.

 

[enaph]

I store software activation codes and account backup codes in the secure notes.

Same here.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Same here.

and here

 

[mlnevese]

Just the fact I would have to manually copy all of my notes if I changed managers make me stay with Sticky... Even when its browser extensions drive me crazy sometimes.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

Just the fact I would have to manually copy all of my notes if I changed managers make me stay with Sticky... Even when its browser extensions drive me crazy sometimes.

Btw SP allows you to export your password to a very tidy html file. This is very handy if you want to migrate to another password manager.

 

[mlnevese]

Btw SP allows you to export your password to a very tidy html file. This is very handy if you want to migrate to another password manager.

Yes. Passwords are not a problem, but I never found one that could import the notes. I would have to copy each one of them.

 

[CyberTech]

and here

and here and here

 

[JB007]

I store software activation codes and account backup codes in the secure notes.

My answer was no but I never think to save these codes
Now I will do it and change my vote to yes.

 

[blackice]

My answer was no but I never think to save these codes
Now I will do it and change my vote to yes.

I didn't think about it until my phone got wiped and I couldn't find one of my sets of recovery codes. It was a painful process.

 

[forgottenuser79643]

I always kept the recovery codes in a local file. Encrypted that file, archived it (.zip) and encrypted that archive too, due to the nature of the content within it. Afterwards I would keep it on a USB, external HDD (i rarely use, just update important files as a backup) and upload a copy to a vault in the cloud. Seems to work for me, so far. I never kept them in my PW manager, the same goes for me 2FA/TOTP codes.

Not sure if that is best practice, but that's how i always did it.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

Nope, only passwords, any codes I need to save are pen and paper.

 

[Freud2004]

Yes, some things that are not passwords but are important, for example passwords from internal application or programs from my work, pin from a telephone or tablet, etc. It's better to be in a secure memo, protected with a password, then in plain text in a TXT call ; pin from iphone, or pin from internal application xpto, number of plate of my old car.

 

[TairikuOkami]

Bitwarden refused to acknowledge my request for an universal login (one login and password like Password123 for useless webpages), so I use secure notes as such.

 

[CyberTech]

I didn't think about it until my phone got wiped and I couldn't find one of my sets of recovery codes. It was a painful process.

What? you can use it on desktop, addons, and web browser...

the recovery codes are in the server not the phone..

 

[blackice]

What? you can use it on desktop, addons, and web browser...

the recovery codes are in the server not the phone..

What happened was my phone deactivated as an Authenticator for 2fa and I couldn’t find the codes for one of my accounts. I hadn’t thought to save them in secure notes.

 

[CyberTech]

What happened was my phone deactivated as an Authenticator for 2fa and I couldn’t find the codes for one of my accounts. I hadn’t thought to save them in secure notes.

Which authenticator app?

 

[blackice]

Which authenticator app?

Microsoft if I remember correctly. Though I don’t remember which account. It wasn’t a crucial one.

 

[CyberTech]

for Authenticator recovery codes you can put it in the note or the cloud or something like this

 

[blackice]

for Authenticator recovery codes you can put it in the note or the cloud or something like this

Yes, my original comment was meant to reflect that I wish I had thought of that before that happened. It wasn’t clear enough. I felt very silly.