Adding a password, letting the device type it, two-factor codes, and finding things again.
If you already keep passwords in Chrome, Bitwarden or KeePass, export them to a file and import it here in one go. Step-by-step guides for each are at vault.bendflex.in. You do not have to type years of accounts back in by hand.
This is the part people like. Plug the device in, find the account in your browser or the app, click into the password box on the website, and ask the device to type it.
Picking an account happens on your computer or phone, where there is a keyboard and a proper display. The device has one button and a small screen, so it does the one job that must happen on the device itself: showing you what is about to be released, and waiting for you to agree.
The screen always tells you what is being asked for and where it is going, before anything happens. If it says a website you did not expect, do nothing and it cancels itself.
A computer can ask. Only a person standing at the device can agree. Software on a machine you plugged into cannot press that button, which is why we made it a physical one.
Those six-digit codes that change every thirty seconds can live here too, instead of an app on your phone. Add the code to an entry once, and the device shows the current number whenever you need it.
The device has no clock of its own that survives being unplugged, so after a power cut it does not know the time until your phone or laptop tells it. Until then it will say "time not confirmed" and hold the codes back rather than show you a wrong one. Connect once and it catches up immediately. Giving it your home Wi-Fi lets it correct itself without your help.
Search looks across names, usernames, websites, tags, notes and the labels on your documents. Type sbi and you get the bank; type insurance and you get the policies and the scanned documents together.
You can also just ask in plain words — "which card expires this year". That part is still learning, so it is marked Beta on screen. When it is unsure it says so rather than guessing, and ordinary search is always there underneath.
The vault locks itself after a few minutes of being ignored, and immediately if you unplug it. You can lock it yourself at any time from the screen. Locking wipes the keys out of memory, so a locked device is genuinely shut, not merely hidden. If you have forgotten your passphrase, go to Chapter 06 — and note that wrong attempts never erase anything.
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