SciPhr Vault - Help Guide

🔐 What is SciPhr Vault?

A personal place to store sensitive information — passwords, account numbers, private notes — encrypted before it's saved. Every record has a category and a title so you can find it later, and only you can see it, since it's tied to your account.

🖱️ How To Use

1

Create a record

"New" button — set a category, a title, and write the content in the rich text editor.

2

View a record

The 👁 icon opens the decrypted content in a popup. At the top right of that window there is a PDF button that downloads that record as a file.

3

Edit

The ✏️ icon opens the same form pre-filled with the current data, in a rich text editor: bold, italics, lists, tables and links.

4

Delete

The 🗑 icon permanently deletes the record, with a confirmation first.

📄 Exporting a record to PDF

When you open a record with the 👁 icon, a PDF button appears at the top right. Pressing it makes the server decrypt that record and hand you a letter-size PDF with the category, the title and the full content. It is not the browser print dialog: it is a download.

It works the same for records saved as plain text and for records with formatting (bold, lists, tables). Line breaks are preserved in both cases.

⚠️ The PDF is no longer encrypted. Once downloaded it leaves the vault as an ordinary file: keep it where you would keep a document full of passwords, or delete it when you are done. Every export is recorded in your activity log.

🛡️ Security

🔒 Encrypted at rest

Content is encrypted (AES-256-CBC) before it's saved to the database — it's never stored in plain text.

🔑 Individual access

Every record is tied to your account; no one else can view it, not even from the admin panel.

🗂️ Categories

Organize your records by category (e.g. "Banking", "Social Media", "Work") to find them fast.

📄 What you export is not encrypted

Encryption protects what is stored inside the vault. Viewing it on screen or exporting it to PDF shows it decrypted: from there on it depends on where you leave it.

🚨 Panic Button

The red "PANIC" button instantly signs you out and clears temporary browser data — use it if someone else is about to see your screen and you need to leave the vault immediately.

⚠️ This only ends your current session — your records stay saved and encrypted, nothing gets deleted.

🔧 Troubleshooting

"Too many requests" on refresh — the vault has a per-minute request limit as a safeguard; wait a moment and try again.

Editing and saving changed the formatting of my text — the editor saves the formatting you give it (paragraphs, for example). A record written as plain text stays plain text until you open it and save it from the editor; from then on it keeps that formatting. If you want a text to stay literal, do not save it from the editor: viewing it and exporting it to PDF does not modify it.

I don't see my previous records — make sure you're logged into the same account you created them with; records are tied to your user, not a device.

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