It does sound a bit silly, but the alternative is to keep them in your brain, and AFAICT it's impossible to do that these days. I have hundreds of accounts in m

It does sound a bit silly, but the alternative is to keep them in your brain, and AFAICT it's impossible to do that these days. I have hundreds of accounts in my password manager, I couldn't possibly remember secure passwords for all of them. FWIW I'm not a fan of keeping them in some cloud service dedicated for storing passwords (1PW's subscription offering, lastpass) because if someone is going to break into servers and steal passwords it's going to be from those fine people. A middle ground is to use something like KeePass, where the encrypted password file is stored where you want it to be stored (ie your hard drive), where you can manage how you want to distribute that file between places you need it.