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I used to do something like this with my passwords. A folded, printed sheet with tiny font holding my accounts and passwords that I carried in my wallet. Eventually I found there wasn't enough space even on both sides of an A4 sheet with the tiniest legible text, and a full sheet was hard to fold small enough. The text got mangled in places due to crushing.

I think normal users don't have a printer or a nearby print shop in 2023. (For those with an inkjet printer, the ink has dried and the head seized up since they printed something last year.)

Many people, who I assume to be normal, don't have a wallet separate from their phone these days. They use virtual payment cards on their phone and store paper notes and if necessary cash and a payment card inside their phone case. Not useful for "lost my phone" recovery codes, terrible for "my phone was stolen" as it reveals too much, but maybe good for "my phone broke".



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