To start with, I’m sure there are some high tech ways to keep passwords. I know people who use open ID and I’m sure I’ll be there with them soon enough. For now, I keep my passwords organized in a excel spreadsheet. I strive for the simplest thing at the current time. For me the simplest thing now is Excel. The spreadsheet is one of only a few actual documents I save to my desktop. The main spreadsheet has several sheet tabs labeled with some general categories I find helpful. For one I have a lot of Financial Passwords. If you’re worried about all the identity theft stuff- get LifeLock- they can clean me up to the tune of a million dollars if I suffer the misfortune. I have another sheet/tab of Social Media passwords. I have two sheets earmarked for my Web Tools as I call them. I have another sheet for General Business websites, and last I’ve got shopping websites.

In the sheet itself on each page, I have 4 columns and multiple rows. The column titles are:

• Website
• URL
• Username
• Password _ since most passwords are pretty short, I use this column if the website has any password clues or questions-which most financial sites have.

I also save this document on some of my web-based programs so I have it if I’m accessing the Internet from another location.