Good old writing I write passwords on two disks, extern and that on my pc (E partition) - in WordPad.
That's less secure than writing it physically unless encryption or universal (not your Windows only) read restrictions are involved.
Worth noting that this report (Cracking Open Chrome OS) contains info (on page 2) about LastPass being broken into.
Brain always, no password manager or writing down, it's all in my mind I got like 10 accounts all with hard enough passwords. Main ones are extremely long And just to be honest, i often tend to forget some passwords when i don't use them for a long time (2 weeks and POOF i forgot it ) It's because they are too long and complex
Boy that's an understatement! The proper password manager is faster than manual input, safer, and never has a forgetful moment.
I use a password manager called Password Safe. The password I use for forums I find easy to remember.
KeePass and plain text. I couldn't trust my memory with zillions of passwords that often must be changed online. Human memory is not reliable, at least mine isn't! My apartment door has a number combination lock which we change every 6 months or so, when I'm very tired and stressed, I have experienced difficulties remembering it (my wife has also experienced the same problem). I've also noticed that some people have a strong memory for sequences of numbers, and others for linguistic models, it would explain why some members rely on their "brain".
You could try remembering a couple songs that have numbers either in the title or the lyrics... "When I'm 64" & "96 Tears" come to mind. Then make up a little sentence or story out of it... when I'm 64 you're gonna cry 96 tears. Something like that. It's easier (for some of us) to remember that then 6496. You could easily expand on this to use book titles or TV shows or movies. Whatever works and sounds right.
You are right, it has been proved by research that human memory easily stores information when it is associative. Most long passwords are not hard to build by association, but impractical as in my door example I have a sequence of nine figures which have to be dialed without any long delay one after the other, otherwise the mechanism is programmed to perceive any hesitation has a hacking attempt. (I do have the combination written down hidden inside my car just in case Alzheimer's disease would suddenly strike!)
I did try Keepass classic (v.1), because it didn't require .NET Framework. It didn't play well with Keyscrambler. It was putting the encrypted text into the fields and displaying the real characters in KS instead (backwards). v.2 does remedy this problem. I put it on a friends computer and played around with it. If I had a lot of passwords to keep straight, I'd use it on anything that wasn't critical. But I really don't log onto many sites. There's here, Youtube, Amazon, EBay, and a couple email accounts. I can easily remember all of them. And just in case I do have them written down on paper and tucked away in a good book. But to anyone looking for a PW manager that doesn't have a dislike of .NET Framework like I do... I recommend Keepass2.
A good example of how each of us has different needs and plans and ideas. I use KeePass on everything that is critical.