Gmail Users: Read This...

[Anonymous]

Count me as another who made some immediate changes... I already had tiers of passwords, but I was still being lazy and had the same "most secure" password for more than one important account.

One approach that helps with remembering lots of different passwords: design some kind of scheme that you can use repeatedly. For example, if you are like me and still remember your childhood friends' phone numbers (from back in the day when we had to dial from memory!), it could be a standard way that you combine a name and phone number, and then modify in set ways. For example:
Emily 123-7890 --> Em123ily7890 --> 3m123i1y789o (swapping certain letters/numbers; if the system lets you, punctuation is also great)
As long as you stick to a consistent method (here, first 2 letters of name, first 3 digits, rest of name, rest of number; then apply swaps), you can then keep a written list of reminders that will be impenetrable to outsiders, along the lines of "Gmail: sat next to me in 2nd grade".

Other types of info you probably already have memorized that can be the "raw material" for a standard password design scheme: *other people's* old addresses, classes you took in college (eg, combine "psychology" and "101". Just stay away from starting points that are easily tied to you (your address, your kids' names/birthdays, etc).
You'd be surprised how memorable a collection of long, jumbled passwords can be when they are all built with the same secret blueprint.

[Anonymous]

15:01 - thanks!