Digital Spring Cleaning

I set up a password manager around 2010, and it remains the single best digital life move I’ve made. Only one password to remember and every online account ever opened is recorded there – each with a long and unique password. Apart from the obvious security benefits, one advantage of storing everything centrally is a single registry of all your online accounts. Would you still be able to remember that florist you signed up with to send flowers one time in 2014 otherwise? A lot of accounts naturally close down when you finish with the service – particularly financial ones. So there’s an ever growing list in the password manager bin of credentials that no longer work. However, there are still probably around 150+ active accounts created over the last 16 years. Even many where I have literally no idea why it’s there. Something called applitools created 4 years ago? A fancy dress shop all the way back in 2012?? As part of shrinking my digital surface area, I am going through them all…