For years, I was the "security through obscurity" guy. If you asked me about password managers, I’d give you a lecture on why putting all your digital keys in one basket was a recipe for disaster.

My "bulletproof" system? A password-protected Excel workbook stored on a physical USB flash drive. To make sure I never lost it, I even had an Apple AirTag physically tethered to the drive. I thought I was a genius. In reality, I was carrying around a massive inconvenience that made logging into anything from my phone a nightmare.

After a few "where is my drive?" mini-heart attacks, I finally bit the bullet and tried NordPass. Here is why this skeptic is never going back.