Creating Simple Passwords
Creating Simple Passwords
Never forget your passwords again! Wouldn’t that be great? With this simple formula, you can do it.
It’s so simple, so secure, and easy to remember.
Follow the steps below for a simple way to create passwords for you and your family.
The first thing you want to do to create a secure password is to make up a sentence that you can easily remember. How about this:
We like to read paper books at night.
Secondly, take the first letter of each word in the sentence to start your password. (In this example I replaced the word to with the number 2 and the word at with @ sign.)
We like to(2) read paper books at(@) night.
It looks like this:
W l 2 r p b @ n
Thirdly, think of the websites you’d like to use. Let’s try Amazon. Use the first three letters of Amazon’s name.
Your password would look like this:
Wl2rpb@nAMA
You have now created a password specifically for Amazon’s website. So simple and so easy!
You can easily create a different password for each website you visit, making them easier to remember. Isn’t this a simple way of creating your passwords? Try it out!
Here’s another tip:
If you need to change your password you can do so easily by using the same sentence and placing the three letters from the website in front of your created password. Or you can change your sentence. The choice is yours, and again it should be easy to remember.
Enjoy this quick tip on how to create a secure password from Basic Organization.com.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Hi Janet! I like this tip being in the form of a video. I’ve been using LastPass, which generates random passwords (and fills them in) for me. But I do like this method of creating and remembering a password, and will keep it in mind for me and my clients. And family. And everyone!
Hi Hazel. Thanks for the comment. I also use LastPass (maybe my next video) but as you know, many people still like their passwords ‘homemade’, so this is an easy system to create and remember them. It is especially important when you share an account with family and everyone needs to remember the password.
I know that people are struggling to come up with passwords, and I love this approach. It can be unique and yet memorable, all at the same time. Thanks for this terrific tip!
Thanks Seana. Passwords are something everyone struggles with.
This is a clever approach and one I had never heard of before. With so many issues surrounding site hacking, changing passwords and having “strong” ones that are difficult to uncover are even more important.
Yes, and being creative, but still being able to remember your passwords is important.
My digital password manager generates passwords when I want them, but I really do prefer something meaningful in case I ever need my password when I’m not near my own devices.
This is an intriguing approach. I would probably add to it by selecting a phrase from another language. I study Italian and speak French and some Yiddish, so I’d probably use a combination of your method and mine. Thanks for sharing your method!
Ooh, Julie, I love that idea!
That’s a unique idea Julie. I like it. I think having an easy-to-remember system is key to those who don’t want to use a password manager.