A single place to store all personal details & documents

[coffee1066]

Hey guys,

I’ve always struggled to get my details (passwords, bank account, documents, etc.) at one place.

And, this has often left me frustrated.

A couple of weeks back, I wanted to print my Aadhar, & at the shop, just couldn’t find it. Took me a good 5 minutes to get it from my email.

I’ve built a pretty simple template on Excel to store all my personal details. It’s saved me a lot of frustrating moments.

I'd love to know if anyone else has faced similar issues? And how do you solve it?

Additionally, if anyone feels that my template could help them, feel free to reach out, I'd love to share it for free. No strings attached.

What’s in it for me? I get to learn better ways of solving this problem.

P.s. DigiLocker is good, but can’t store text in it. And, isn’t searchable.

 

[wynning826]

@coffee1066 KeepassXC and Google Keep.

 

[coffee1066]

@wynning826 Understood. Is there anything about this current solution that you don't like?

 

[wynning826]

@coffee1066 If anything that needs to be encrypted, I keep it in KeepassXC and share the DB over Dropbox like passwords or whatever.

For all other easily accessible things, Google keep like aadhar number, pan number or quick notes and others.

If you are used to keeping knowledge-base or project management, I am not sure Google keep helps without a bit of overhead.

For knowledge-base: Dropbox + markdwon files.
For project management: made a native kanban board ( was using kanban on notion previously, didn't like it much. Too much information than I use.)

 

[coffee1066]

@wynning826 This sounds great. Seems like you have it all managed.
But, is there anything about this, that you don't like?

 

[wynning826]

@coffee1066 Exactly what are you looking for?

 

[coffee1066]

@wynning826 As in?

 

[wynning826]

@coffee1066 What exact requirements do you have?

For docs and every other thing, a basic cloud storage seems fine.

 

[coffee1066]

@wynning826 It's a workable solution, but has its own drawbacks like ease of accessibility, flexibility of storing various types of data, etc. I'd rather build a solution that tackles the drawbacks

 

[wynning826]

@coffee1066 For any type of secure document, is Google/Microsoft not preferrable over a startin up company, given security and reliability plus the bandwidth they provide shadows anything that there is.

 

[coffee1066]

@wynning826 Not really. I feel there's a need for a solution in this space. 1

 

[nonie]

@coffee1066 We have lots of them

Dont PPL just ask Google anymore

 

[vacha]

@coffee1066 Apple notes/Google keep ?

 

[coffee1066]

@vacha Not too suited for storing everything in an organized manner.

 

[vacha]

@coffee1066 Like what? I just the use default notes and files app on iphone, it searchable and simple.

 

[coffee1066]

@vacha Hmm okay. Never found that solution good for myself.

 

[john185]

@coffee1066 I keep my all documents in Apple Notes with specific folder for each,with a face id lock.Worked well for years.