Stephen Robbins here. Welcome to the get it done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is keeping your passwords safely.

Alicia posted a question on my Facebook page. What she asked was,

I'm wondering if you have any recommendations on how to keep all your passwords organized

in one safe place.

I always wanted to be a spy.

It seemed like fun.

You'd meet a shadowy figure at night.

The cumquots are ripe this year, they would say.

Yes, I would respond.

Jackie Onassis would approve.

We each had the right password, and we could do our sneaky spy stuff.

When you only have to remember the names of obscure fruits for a single shadowy encounter,

passwords are great.

Unfortunately, now that we have the interwebs, we have dozens of encounters, shadowy and not,

and every single one of them wants a password.

For some sites, like my bank, that makes sense.

But we even need to set up accounts and passwords for free sites

so they can capture our information before letting us read their content.

We're buried.

How do we keep track of all those passwords?

The White Knight that comes to our rescue is a piece of software called a password vault. Password vault let you store all your passwords in one place, encrypted in secret code, so no one but you can access them. All you do is enter your master password and you have access to all your

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