Nowadays you probably have so many open accounts with various service providers such as your banks, mutual fund companies, stock brokerage firms, and e-mail servers. But how many times when you need to access an account, you still remember its login ID or its password.
To solve this problem, you might put all your account IDs and passwords on a piece of paper. You can then carry this piece of paper with you in your wallet all the time. But how safe is this practice? What would happen if you lose it?
Password Book is designed for you to record your account information securely on a computer file. It is encrypted to yourself -- only you yourself can decrypt it. In case you lose it, you are sure nobody else can decrypt your password book file because he does not know your passphrase. Since you have heard our advice to backup your data often to your home computer, you can retrieve all your lost information when you are home.
Your password book has a limited capacity, which is determined by your license. When you hit the limit, you will need to either upgrade your license or delete some old entries to make room for new entries.
From the main menu, choose "Tools > Password Book". If you haven't, you will need to provide your passphrase to decrypt your password book. If things go well, you will see a split pane with a table on the top part and a data entry form on the bottom part. You can use the divider in the middle of the split pane to change the view size of the table or of the form.
The table is used to display your password book entries, and it has these columns, which are editable through the data entry form:
Your account provider such as Yahoo, Bank of America, etc.
Your account login name with the above service provider
If apply, this is the PIN number of the account
If apply, this is the password of the account
Some notes about this account
The data entry form is used to edit the above table columns. Its dispaly is synchronized with a selected item of the table.
To add a new entry, click the
button on the toolbar.
An empty row will be added into the table. It will be
either added before the current selected row or at the
end of the table. You can then use the data entry form
to fill out necessary information. Once done that, click
the
button on the toolbar. The table will be
updated with the newly entered information.
Your license may limit how many entries you can have on your password book. When you hit the limit, you will need to either upgrade your license or delete some old entries to make room for new ones.
To modify an entry, first select the row of that entry
by clicking on it. The data entry
form will be updated to reflect the information in that
row. Then use the data entry form to modify any information
you like to make. Once done modification, click
button on the toolbar. The selected row will be modified
as you have made.
To delete an entry, first select the row of that entry
by clicking on it. Then, click the button on
the toolbar. The deleted entry will not be deleted right
away but it will be dimmed to reflect the change. This
is to prevent accidental deletion of an useful entry.
To undelete a previously deleted entry, first select it.
Then click the button on the toolbar.
Deleted entry can be modified too to resurrect it.
The final deletion of entries are done when the password book is saved and the password book screen is switched over to another screen.
To save the book, simply click the
button
on the toolbar. Any deleted entries will not be saved.
The password book is automatically encrypted to yourself
so that only you can read it.