LastPass little-known features that can be useful to you
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
1. Creating protected notes
The LastPass vault can hold not only the passwords, but also notes. They will be securely encrypted, and no one gets access to them without knowing your Master Password. They can be used to record, for example, answers to secret questions for password recovery. Well, or any text at all.
To create a note, click the icon LastPass extension to the browser pane, and click Add item → Secure note. In the window that opens, enter a name and the text you want to save from outsiders.
Select the folder where you want to save your note, and click "Save". In the "Advanced Settings" you can also activate the repeated request of the master password when you open the note.
The mobile client LastPass notes are as follows: + tap in the lower right corner, select Secure note, enter a name and write a note, and then click Save.
Notes can also be sorted into folders. And access to them is possible through a browser extension, clicking All items → Notes, or via a mobile app, open the side panel and selecting the Secure notes.
Number of notes is not limited, but LastPass developers say that the expansion begins to slow down, if you create more than 2 000 entries.
2. Storage of personal data
In LastPass is a set of templates for notes. Universal is a blank field where arbitrary data can be administered.
But a special template is provided for storing passport information, address of residence, data on payment cards and bank accounts, Wi-Fi, on software licenses and other similar passwords of good.
Thus it is possible not only to keep in safety important dataBut automatically substitute their registration forms at different sites.
3. storage investments
In addition to text information, LastPass allows you to store and attachments. For example, you can take pictures of your license or any other document and attach it to a note in the program. Either keep a protected file attachments with file-key.
To do this, when creating a protected note via any browser extension, click the "Add attachment" in the edit window. Smartphone Attachment to press the button at the bottom of the screen.
LastPass allows you to attach any type of file, but no larger than 10 MB. Free account is limited by the storage capacity of 50 MB, Premium users get 1 GB.
4. Saving bookmarks
LastPass can be used to store secret bookmarks, which will not be visible in the browser address list. Get access to them is possible only after entering the master password.
To do this, click on the icon to expand and click Add item → Password, how normally do when creating any record LastPass password. Enter the URL of the site, the name of the bookmark, the folder where to store it, and, if needed, a comment. If the site is not required to input a user name and password can not enter.
With the help of LastPass, you can easily get access to the site through an extension or mobile app. BUT BookmarkAs all the other data in the program, will be synchronized between your devices.
5. Autofill
LastPass can not only enter for your logins and passwords. It can also fill out registration forms at various sites. Allowing the extension to automatically enter the name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers and other personal data, you will significantly save time.
You create a new entry in LastPass, clicking Add item → Address. In the window that opens, enter information about themselves those who want to fill in automatically. Save the entry.
When you open any site where there are fields for the registration, simply click on the icon that appears in the field. LastPass will automatically select what data to enter and fill out the form for you.
6. emergency access
This feature allows you to give your friends or family permission to use your passwords, bank codes and other data in an emergency. If you suddenly find yourself in a hospital or are unavailable for some other reason, a user, you assign your trustee be able to log into your LastPass vault.
However, for this you need a premium account. Trustee should also have a LastPass account, but will fit and free.
To activate, click the "Emergency Access" in LastPass vault in the lower left corner of the screen. Click + and select who to share.
If your family member or friend will need your data in LastPass, it can send a login request. Your mail will be sent a special letter. If you do not reject the request within a certain time, access will be granted.
7. Two-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication significantly improves the reliability of your account LastPass. At the service has its own mobile app for that. Also you can use solutions from Google or Microsoft.
Click "Account setup" on the LastPass website and click on the tab "Multi-factor authentication." You select the appropriate application, such as native LastPass Authenticator.
Click the pencil icon, including authentication and enable offline access (in case you need to open the vault, and the smartphone is not connected to the Internet). Click "Update", then Enroll and follow the instructions that will lead the service.
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