Do you use your own codes, acronyms, or a secret writing system to save time or to keep information confidential?
For example, I use a code to remind myself of passwords without revealing the full password. I can imagine people who know speedwriting or shorthand using these systems to make their notes harder to decipher. Or writing in a foreign language or alphabet.
As always on Fridays, all organizer-related discussion is welcome!
Shorthand is a good skill to have. There are a few different ones popular in different parts of the world so there is a good potential there to produce a kind of encryption from the less determined. I know people who learnt it young and still use it even though it was not used professionally for decades before their retirement. There are people, as ever there are with everything imaginable, who like to learn such things as a hobby. I personally am a slow writer and it would possibly help me to learn shorthand to help with this. My son is turning into a slow writer too so perhaps he could learn with me.
ReplyDeleteAS to my passwords. They are a hot mess and despite kind of knowing the main ones it takes me a good few minutes every time to work out what the right password is. I keep thinking I would tidy it all up but part of me thinks that if I struggle to understand them then that is possibly the best defence should a nefarious type get hold of my filofax. Apparently if looked after well the written password record has the potential to be a very secure way of remembering them. I did read a security expert saying that online password storage can be less secure but I am not certain that I believe that completely.
I figure that I will keep my passwords safe my way and so far my natural mistrust has worked at keeping me safe and secure in an online world. A personal filofax is at the centre of this system. I have tried to duplicate it in a home A5 desktop filofax but it is not complete. I do keep meaning to digitalise it into a pre printed insert but then that is less secure and a weakness to have it in a document or more for the different filofax sizes on my laptop.
In this modern, digital world it is with satisfaction that I can say the analogue filofax still has a lot of uses in my life. It is my file of facts alongside my fancy pants diary system!! Long may it continue.
PS Do you people know what you want in your filofaxes or is it iterative? Do you work it out yourself or scour the online for inspiration? How do you find out that your system is right? I am in one of my doubting periods when I feel I have not got things right but I do not know how to make that feeling go, how to improve things.
Mine systems are iterative - I keep my eyes open for better ways of doing things, try them, ditch / tweek or innovate if it inspired an improvement. It's never 'done' is it?
DeleteI use a password locker. It works well for me, especially since the days of using your birthdate with a $ for the 5 are long gone. It even generates those goofy 15-character passwords everybody wants now. I've had it for about five years, and there have been no issues.
ReplyDeleteI'm an empty nester and my husband is an incurious person, so I don't have to worry about prying eyes.