Here is quick information on how to get started with my favorite
password manager and two-factor authentication (2FA) authenticator.
This old blog post of mine has some great background:
https://www.gsharratt.com/2020/03/set-up-password-manager-nice-covid-19.html
It talks about why you need a password manager in your life. (Ignore the mention of LastPass, 1Password, and Authy.)
The password manager I recommend (free for the low tier, which is still great) is Bitwarden:
https://bitwarden.com/products/personal/
You'll install and use this on all your computers and mobile devices (phones, tablets), and your data will sync between them
The two-factor authentication (2FA) authenticator I recommend is Bitwarden Authenticator:
https://bitwarden.com/products/authenticator/
You'll
install and use this on one or more of your mobile devices; if you do
it on more than one, your data will NOT sync between them. So when you
add a new 2FA token, you'll have to manually add it to the Bitwarden
Authenticator app on ALL of your mobile devices.
Install the
password manager, Bitwarden, then get your most important accounts
(especially your email account) moved into it. Then change the
passwords on those accounts to be long (say, 30 characters) and random,
using the password generator in Bitwarden..
Then install the
authenticator, Bitwarden Authenticator, and use it to add 2FA to your
most important accounts. (Note: A few accounts, like Google accounts,
already have push 2FA, so something like Bitwarden Authenticator is
optional.) Then add 2FA on your other accounts. Then move your other
accounts into Bitwarden and change their passwords as described above.
I
recommend that you add any new 2FA token not only to the Bitwarden
Authenticator app on all your mobile devices, as mentioned above, but
also to your Bitwarden vault, for resilience.
You'll find more instructions here:
https://bitwarden.com/learning/getting-started-as-an-individual-user/
