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Software like notepad++ (encrypted text)

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Pandamonium

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I have way too many passwords and accounts to keep track of, so I keep all of that information in an encrypted text file. For the last few years, I've been using Notepad++ with the SecurePad plugin. It's probably not the safest form of encryption, but I like that it was a very quick loading application and that it doubled as a pretty full-featured text editor.

Anyway, I've been using Parallels to boot a Win7 VM to run Notepad++ and Onenote, but I've been using Onenote less and less. I've come to realize that the only program tying up 10 GB on my SSD is Notepad++.

I've been googling for replacements and nothing really quite fits the bill. I don't want a dedicated password manager like keepass. I guess what I want is just a text editor with a reasonably difficult encryption tool.
 
TrueCrypt is good. From what I know of TrueCrypt you'd have to encrypt a volume with your text editor inside (maybe you can encrypt just the file itself?), but the volume can be something like a few megabytes or so. Nothing big.
 
Create a new keychain via Applications->Utilities->Keychain Access with a strong password.

Create user/password combos as needed?

You can also store simple notes as well.

Sure, it's not a separate full-featured text editor, but it's at least an alternative.
 
AsianriceX said:
Create a new keychain via Applications->Utilities->Keychain Access with a strong password.

Create user/password combos as needed?

You can also store simple notes as well.

Sure, it's not a separate full-featured text editor, but it's at least an alternative.
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This is how I would do it.
 
Thanks for the tip about an encrypted disk image. I tried using secure notes a while ago but the formatting of a secure note is what got me. My password file is set up so that everything looked lined up in Notepad/Notepad++ with word wrap off. Secure notes have a fixed "page" width, so I couldn't use them without fixing a lot of entries. The disk image is one more step than I would like, but I kind of like the idea that I can put more than my password file in the image. I'm not sure that I'll ever end up doing that, but it's good to know that I can. I'll probably stick with this method until I start cleaning up my data so that I can use keychain access, but for now, I can move my Win7 VM off of my SSD and free up about 9 GB of space on my 80 GB X18-M G2.
 
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