When LogMeIn acquired LastPass, I jumped ship. Corporate mergers make me jumpy, and I’m not a big fan of cloud storage of sensitive information to begin with. It was at that time I found Pass, “the standard UNIX password manager.” Pass is ideal for my tastes, saving passwords as GPG-encrypted files in everyday normal folders. Pass supports bash completion, and can be backed up / synchronized with Git. It is, in short, exactly what it claims to be: the standard UNIX password manager.
I’m highlighting it today, not only because I would highly recommend Pass to anyone enthusiastic about UNIX-like operating systems, but also because of my newly rekindled interest in a project I started two years ago called “Simple Note System.” It was conceived one morning during an update to a popular note-taking app, during which I wondered why said app was in excess of 300 megabytes. Having used computers throughout the mid-to-late ’90s, I recognize this as nearly the full installed size of Windows 98. What on earth could be in those 300 MB? To be fair, probably a lot of good stuff, but I suspect also quite a bit of code made redundant by a plethora of other editors on the system. Why not cut out the custom reinvention of the wheel in favor of an editor already on the system?
Pass, of course, does not recognize the existence of SNS, and ZX2C4 has no relationship with me other than similar ideas of how to manage sensitive data, however some code from Pass is used in Simple Note System (under the terms of the GPLv2).
Having added most of the features I intend to for SNS version 2, its alpha is now on GitHub, accessible through the Projects page.