> What's wrong with plain old copy-and-paste? Context awareness. I currently have 429 items in my PM (it happens to be 1Password, specifically because it's ex

> What's wrong with plain old copy-and-paste? Context awareness. I currently have 429 items in my PM (it happens to be 1Password, specifically because it's extremely good at figuring this crap out). I almost never have to search for anything; even if I do, I can easily update the entry, so that it understands the context, in which a given credential can be valid; e.g. I can use my Blizzard login both on "https://battle.net https://battle.net", and in "app://sc2" (StarCraft 2). If I have a main+alt account, it will allow me to choose from the two, not 400+. It's the same as with using contactless payments with a smartwatch, it saves you 10 seconds here, a minute there - and over the course of your day, day after day - it starts adding up. > I think a user-friendly, secure, and reliable sync is the much more difficult part of implementing a good password manager. CRDTs solve this problem quite generally. I've never tried actually implementing sync from scratch in a desktop/mobile app, but the theory behind CRDTs is quite easy to grasp and makes a lot of sense. I'd say it's quite a bit harder to sync plain, old files, because the only metadata you have available is things like names, access/modification times, etc and they tend to be huge binary blobs, like photos or music, so the problem of automatic conflict resolution gets quite interesting. BTW look up Apple's CloudKit. I've done a "let's pretend we're on a 1990s Internet" challenge[1] a while ago, and it's amazing how reliably everything syncs, even if the devices are online for maybe 1% of the day. [1]: https://www.rollc.at/tags/challenge/ https://www.rollc.at/tags/challenge/