As an alternative to a password manager, have you considered making a unique login for each website based on some algorithm? Most of my logins share a pattern, but they are unique, and they don't contain any part of the website's name, though I do use the name to generate the password. This way, I can remember all my passwords without a manager, but they are all unique, contain several symbols, and long.
Thats actually a good idea, even using a letter in the websites name will probably work fine. Do you think the systematic crackers are thorough enough to crunch though the extra combinations that allows for? I would think there were enough easy targets that it would just keep things simple. Or say something a little more complicate like if my password is ABC123 for hubski it might be ABC123K (Iterate the first letter of the the website by 3 as the last letter). If the pattern gets too complicate you have issues solving it in a quick period of time. You could for example add 'h' onto all the letters of your password but then you would have to do more letter math thats kind of slow and annoying.
I saw an algorithm suggestion manager at reddit recently. I thought it looked interesting. But I also thought that if someone could make a list like that, then it could also be easy for a computer to go through that list pretty easily. The obstacle I face with algorithms is that they have to be clever enough that other people won't have thought of them or they'll be easy to crack. I'm not that confident in my ability to outsmart people who are trying to crack passwords all day. On the other hand, if it's super clever, would it be easy to remember? Thanks for the suggestion. I'm glad it's working for you. Maybe if I learn more about it, I'll feel more comfortable with it.