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I could likely copy the entire paragraph that explains where to zero the dial to, which direction to start (and how many turns). It would be, I don't know, 120 words or so? But I don't think that it taxes the password manager to just add the pdf to the attachment. I haven't yet ran into a scenario where I desperately need to pare my encrypted vault down in size. Perhaps I don't understand the technology all that well though, and I'm setting myself up for grief later.

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It’s more of a purist attitude on my end for sure. I cannot stand the idea of storing a PDF and all its bloat for a single paragraph of information that could easily fit into an entry note. Vendor PDFs are also sometimes ridiculously unoptimized too. Even for a modest 500kb PDF, that’s still like a couple hundred plaintext entries that could have taken its spot.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

Understood. But I also don't want to read the full thing all 16 or 18 pages, just to be sure that something essential wasn't included on page 15 that I left out because I only copy-pasted the paragraph of instructions on page 2. I think it is literally the only attached file in my vault... the next closest thing is a cryptokey or two. And even you'd agree those are password-adjacent enough that they belong.