I used to work for a now out of business electronics retailer, back when corporate email was on home grown mainframe software. Passwords were randomly generated for us and were "strong". Fortunately, they were only 6 characters but they were usually along the lines of xw62pq. To remember these, I made up short phrases which only were needed for the first dozen logins and then I had it down. Like with above, "x-wing 62 pretty quaint" would do the trick.
So rv2s7sdlgNorN might go something like "right, very 2 saturday 7 sit down log Nordic North"
It doesn't make any sense but you can maybe see that repeating it in your mind a few times makes it very memorable.
I say this because it's the approach I try to use without the aid of something like 1Password (thanks, btw, for informing on its existence) so that I can (because I have to) log in from any one of 5 or 6 machines to various sensitive accounts.
I used to work for a now out of business electronics retailer, back when corporate email was on home grown mainframe software. Passwords were randomly generated for us and were "strong". Fortunately, they were only 6 characters but they were usually along the lines of xw62pq. To remember these, I made up short phrases which only were needed for the first dozen logins and then I had it down. Like with above, "x-wing 62 pretty quaint" would do the trick.
So rv2s7sdlgNorN might go something like "right, very 2 saturday 7 sit down log Nordic North"
It doesn't make any sense but you can maybe see that repeating it in your mind a few times makes it very memorable.
I say this because it's the approach I try to use without the aid of something like 1Password (thanks, btw, for informing on its existence) so that I can (because I have to) log in from any one of 5 or 6 machines to various sensitive accounts.