A notebook is better in some ways, but worse in important ones. It can't save you from phishing, and your password strength is going to be relatively poor (sinc

A notebook is better in some ways, but worse in important ones. It can't save you from phishing, and your password strength is going to be relatively poor (since a notebook can't generate them for you, and if they get long it'll be annoying to type). Also, a notebook is easier to copy, steal, or lose (though this is a fairly minor consideration for most people). I would say a notebook is worse than a password manager. It's not strictly worse in every way, but on the balance it's not a hard choice. A notebook is better than most other not-a-password-manager solutions though. So it has that going for it.