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A tool for helping you memorize random passwords.

Most of the time, we should store our passwords in password managers and not memorize them.

But there are a small number of passwords that you really need to have committed to memory:

• first and foremost, of course, the master password for your password manager
• the PIN code for your bank
• the unlock code for your mobile devices
• the password to the email account where the unlock codes

All of these codes should be rotated at leastsomewhat regularly, but doingthe work of re-memorizing these is super annoying and often we just don'tbother.

Rather than write down a password and rely on the process of needing toactually unlock your devices, PINPal provides a spaced-repetition prompt to tryto help you remember them as you're working on a computer.

Since PINPal's job is to help you manage your most sensitive secrets, itbehooves it to treat its data very carefully.

Currently PINPal stores all secrets using thePythonkeyringmodule, and gradually forgets thepassword as you make progress in memorizing it.

To start memorizing a new secret,

$pinpal new

and you'll be prompted to label the new secret.

To check up on your secrets and get prompted to recite them, simply run

$pinpal

You will want to add

pinpal check

to something that is run frequently. I have it in my shell prompt. This willtell you when you need to runpinpal.