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Synopsis: Use visual or other helps that play to your individual capabilities to remind you of passwords.
Singleton passwords are frequently difficult to remember, because of their arbitrary nature. Stopping short of writing them down somewhere, you need a way to externalize them so that you can look them up.
Therefore, use your primary trait to encode a password in something that plays to your trait.
If you are a visual person, use something visual, like a tree, or a crossword puzzle in which you encode your password. If you are an auditory person, use the patterns you recognize in the Ode to Joy or something similar. If you are an olfactory person, I can?t help you, but you probably know best how to associate textual patterns with the smell of your beloved one.
For example, some banks gave customers credit-card-sized prints that featured a matrix of digits into which customers visualized their pin codes. Also, some people hide pin codes in their phone books as phone numbers.
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Contributors: Dirk Riehle
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