The first hour with a set.

In order

Sixty minutes, once.

1. I

   Clear the table

   Phone charged, no audience, no screen sharing. This is the one session where the room matters.

2. II

   Choose the password

   Decide it before you type anything else. Write it nowhere. Say it out loud a few times.

3. III

   Practise a write

   Put one harmless entry in a vault and write it to a card. Read it back. Now you know the motion.

4. IV

   Write the real vault

   Five to fifteen entries, named plainly enough for you and vaguely enough for everyone else.

5. V

   Copy to all three

   Same vault, three cards, one after another. Verify each by reading it back before you put it away.

6. VI

   Place them

   One on you, one at home, one away from home. Decide the away one now, not next month.

7. VII

   Clean up

   Delete the screenshots, shred the paper, empty the notes app. This step is the actual security improvement.

Leave for later

What not to do today.

Do not try to move your entire password manager onto a card. The card is for the few secrets that open everything else, not for four hundred logins.

Do not invent a complicated naming system on the first evening. Start plain; refine at your first yearly check.