Ask HN: How do you manage your PINs?

1 points by fxfan 7y ago ↗ HN

I don't keep them in my password manager because pulling out a pwmng for a quick entry seems wasteful. Also, in some places pin's are shortcuts for passwords (like Windows 10) so keeping them in the password manager doesn't feel right/safe...

How do you guys manage your PINs?

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gaspoweredcat 7y ago ↗

its only a 4 or 6 digit number and you rarely have that many of them unlike passwords so i just remember them. its not actually that much of a stretch for most people to do, if you think back to the days before you carried a mobile with you at all times you likely knew at least 10 peoples phone numbers by memory so memorizing pins is easy

Nairus 7y ago ↗

If it's a numeric PIN I don't use very often, I save as a phone contact. For example, in my country our phone number have 9 digits, so if my PIN is 1234 I save it as: 985061234 under a relative or fake name.