There are a few convivence features that password managers give: 1. Syncing. You mentioned it, but its actually pretty big. Its hard to do this right, and I do

There are a few convivence features that password managers give: 1. Syncing. You mentioned it, but its actually pretty big. Its hard to do this right, and I don't trust myself. This is especially true on devices without normal OSs like phones. 2. Autofill. Just having a plain text file means I have to constantly go to it. Its a pain, I want autofill. 3. Password generation. Just a text file means I use shitty passwords everywhere. Auto-generated passwords are truly random and much more secure. 4. Recovery. My father passed away a few years ago. The fact that he had all his stuff in a password manager with me as a recovery person meant the transitional period was way easier. Instead of having to deal with tons of customer support for months I was able to manage his affairs the next day. 5. Integrations. For example some managers can plug into TOTP services and autofill that for you. I don't personally use that, I feel its too many eggs in one basket, but some people like that. 6. Team/sharing. My work uses a password manager and its useful to store creds in a secure, audited, sharable way for certain services. When you put it all together it adds up. It CAN be done with alternative means, and if you are super security conscious you may choose to do so, but for the majority of people its a good tradeoff.