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Can you keep all your passwords safe in one place, while only having to memorize one?

Nowadays, if you want to take full benefits from using the internet, you simply have to sign up for websites (email, homebanking, etc.). There is no way around it. The more simple sites that require some interaction will have your account protected by a password that, most of the times, you are able to choose.

Literally, I have accounts in hundreds of sites that require a username and password. I could have taken the easy way and choose the same username and password for each of them, but this is also the unsafe way. Identity theft is popular these days and having one identity for all those sites is begging to be snatched. So, although my username is most of the times the same, the password is almost always different. But my memory is limited and if I did not have a tool to help me out, I’d have been locked out many times for messing up passwords. Moreover, some sites do not allow you to choose your own password but assign one randomly generated to you (will probably be a mess of letters and numbers - strong password). How to solve this problem then?

There are a few tools out there to help on this. Usually, it’s some kind of software that saves your usernames and passwords on a file and encrypts it using a master password: the good thing is that this single password is all that you have to remember.

Recently, lifehack.org featured an article reviewing 10 free tools that you can use.

Of all this free tools to keep your passwords safe, I was happy to see that one of the reviewed ones is actually the one I use: KeePass.

Bellow I’m going to tell you why KeePass is my choice program to keep all my usernames and passwords safe.

KeePass Password Safe

There are so many good features about this little piece of software that I don’t know where to start…

Without wanting to sound too technical, here are some of the key features that make of KeePass my software of choice:

• Very strong security to keep both your passwords or other data you insert in the fields safe
• Multiple User Keys
• It’s portable and requires no installation (take it anywhere you might need your passwords)
• Allows to export your database to some of the more common files (txt, html, csv, etc)
• Very easy to organize your sites and passwords into groups that you can easily search from
• Allows for auto-typing (fills out forms automatically for you)
• Random Password generator (if you don’t want to create a new password for each new site, just let the password generator do it for you

Are these enough to get you convinced? Here is one more that you might have already figured out but it’s never too much to mention: IT’S FREE.

Read more about KeePass Password Safe and download it at the official site.

And now, go and have some fun organizing your passwords knowing that you never have to memorize any of them again.

NOTE: I am in no way affiliated with KeePass Password Safe nor am I getting any money for writing this post.