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For the structure I "solved" that problem by creating folders with three main files:

    Websites/foo.com/username
    Websites/foo.com/password
    Websites/foo.com/email

Sometimes I add "/notes" with unstructured text contents, and for a few special cases I created a file "/json" with some machine-readable things in JSON format.

It's not perfect, and I do dislike the way that the metadata isn't encrypted, but on the whole I'm happy with the solution.

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Yeah sure, but then are the conventions you came up with shared by all the tools in the ecosystem too (ex: browserpass)? Since the keystone (pass) declined to provide strong guidance, you end up with fragmentation and incompatibility.

I view this as a feature.

Yeah, but that's just your convention. I, for example, store password in

private/foo.com/foo-com-login

The first line of that file is password, the rest are optional notes. I think using first line for password and the rest for metadata was intended originally.

I love pass, but I agree that it would be nice to have an established standard of where to put username etc.