HTML password manager

If you spend a lot of time online, and since you even managed to end up on this page, I'm assuming you do, you've surely had this problem before: a freaking gazillion usernames and passwords to keep track of. Sure there's a remember password option in most browsers, and sure there are browser extensions like RoboForm and stand-alone password managers like KeePassX, but wouldn't it be nice to have a simple, regular text file ... with a search option ... maybe even view it in a browser, since you're already there? I thought it would be awesome, so I came up with this little HTML file:

HTML password manager HTML password manager

Everything's there: CSS, JavaScript, even the favicon - all embedded. There's no copy to clipboard option, since JavaScript doesn't allow that, but you do get a one-click-select-text feature and a left Alt query reset. Ok, I'll shut up now. Just try the DEMO if you're not convinced.

To add your own info, just open the file in a text editor and

 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
<table>
  <tr>
    <th colspan="3"></th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <!-- enter website address here -->
    <td><a href="http://www.helpfulsheep.com/">helpfulsheep.com</a></td>
    <!-- username here -->
    <td>shawn_the_sheep</td>
    <!-- and password here -->
    <td>spacesheep</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <!-- next account here, and so on -->
    <td><a href="http://www.image-jam.com/">image-jam.com</a></td>
    <td>ijam_welol</td>
    <td>dontvisitthiswebsite</td>
  </tr>
</table>

DOWNLOAD