How do you manage your game keys?

I rarely own duplicate games and I have to store them somewhere, but when I do I just make a note on evernote/onenote, just to remember which ones I have to giveaway :3

I do an excel table

I don't. ;)

I'm stuck with keys everywhere, buying bundles with games I actually intend on playing and then not activating them isn't uncommon for me.

i never locked my games before so i don't have keys for them...

wrote a letter that is buried with a coffin which leads to a musician that sings about a river that flows to a lake where lived a fish that ate a pill made by a pharmaceutical company that built a factory where a movie was filmed that was about a janitor that lived in the white house where a real life janitor was employed by a cranky boss named Bob because he sleeps on a crappy bed built by the same carpenter that made my desk where i keep my list of game keys.

Since dealing with a crashed system atm;

Try to use secured online spreadsheet or text systems plus local backups

With this way you won't have to recalculate your owned/used keys in system crashes ;)

Damn.. Not bad! I kinda regret I didn't write down where the keys are from (except the humble bundle link ones), but I have a text document with my spare keys :). The name of the game + the key.

A simple wordpad file in the following format.

Name of the game - key.

When a key is used I delete it from the file. I try to backup in Google Drive when I remember to do so but I don't always stay on top of it.

I use what I want then give the rest away either to friends or family, through Steamfriends, on here as giveaways/key drops or on other forums I go to. I do all of this immediately so I dont forget which are activated otherwise I would be in a terrible mess.

.txt

I only save a few keys on Notepad when necessary.

On notepad, anyway have you got the groupee bundle which has half minute hero?

Really want to buy it but cant since I have no debit card acess till next month.

EDIT: Mind helping me get it? I can buy you some bundles next month.

I just have a txt organized like such
(key) - (game name)
(key) - (game name) - redeemed by (website/me)

I use Google Drive with Google Docs spread sheet. That way I always have access and I download a copy for backup. I have two copies in Google drive - 1 WITH serials or links and 1 WITHOUT. That way if I want to trade or offer a game, I can share the copy without the serials.

Before I did that it was a mess. Took about 1 hour to make the spread sheet and now I update as I buy. Well worth the effort.

txt file much like PE but with very few keys in it..

I just make sure I don't have much to manage. Either I use them, or I give them away at the first opportunity. So all I have to track, is a bunch of left-over Origin keys for which I need to find a somewhat ninja-proof way to drop them.

notepad txt file.

Game - key - where I got key (for verification before sending gift)

Excel file on SkyDrive.

i tend to forget about them

I wish I'd have keys to manage at the moment, actually.

Looks like most of you are self-disciplined.
When I see a certain game in bundle, I think "Oh, it'll be a good gift for ...!" and then I buy it, but my friend refuses cuz don't want to spoil him/her SteamLib. And these keys go to an Excel table, and a clod grows... And I still can't stop buying every launched bundle.

So are there somebody like me - managing collection of 300+ keys?

I have a simple text file in my dropbox account. I simply copy/paste all my unused keys there.

My method right now is pretty lame. I keep each site I've bought bundles from pinned in my browser until I finish giving them away or trading them out. This is going to suck the next time my browser crashes and the history is forgotten. I don't have so many keys that I'm having trouble keeping track of them yet.

I like your spreadsheet option. Might incorporate it on down the road.

1) First I check Steam and see if any of my friends have the game on their wishlist. If they do, I send them the key/link.

2) I ask a friend who gives me the trading cards from any game I give him, if he wants any of the spare keys.

3) If it's on a site that has a "used key" feature, I put it in a Google spreadsheet (currently Groupees, Flying, and half-Humble). Bundle Site, Bundle Name, Game Name. I don't put the key in so that I'll go back and mark the key as used. Every month or so I share the spreadsheet with friends to see if they want anything.

4) If it's not on a site with a "used key" feature, I ignore it until said feature is implemented, then I go through all the games and try to activate all the keys, and put the ones I couldn't activate because I already owned the game in a spreadsheet. I send it to a variety of friends, one at a time, having them mark keys that they couldn't activate because they were used, or did activate with pretty colors. I'm left with a small pile of keys that have some used and some unused, and post them here.