Question about revealing keys

sometimes they run out of keys so i reveal them right away and put them all into an open office document, never ran into problems.

i do same as him. but i use notepad

I always reveal and use the keys right away by either redeeming them myself or making giveaways. Unless you try to collect more stuff a for big event I have never seen the need to keep them.

Hi, anaaa!

I'm new to the whole giveaway thing, and I've only bought bundles through Humble Bundle so far, but I've been leaving the keys hidden so it's easier for me to tell which ones are unredeemed. I suppose if I start buying from multiple sites, though, it will make sense for me to keep track of everything in one place. I'd probably go with a spreadsheet myself.

Thanks for the giveaway!

If you redeem the key and don't use it for 1/2 years, you have a really small chance of getting your key revoked.
If you don't reveal, and after 1 or 2 years you reveal them, you have a small chance of the place where you bought being out of keys to give you.
Either way, if you bought from a good store, you can have both of these situations resolved via costumer care.

No good answer here I think, just. A preference :) I do keep them unrevealed, so I know what I gave away allready. (I also do keep a spreedsheet of all the games I have with the indication "given", "used" etc, having them unrevealed its just another layer of protection so I don't gift something I gave before

i always reveal keys right away. if they're for me, i redeem them. if they're for giveaways, i put them in a txt file. i'm sure there are better methods, but i'm lazy and uncreative.

Redeemed n sent to notepad,thats the law

Reveal + put into my Excel database, I strongly prefer this. The reason is, I purchased some stuff from Humble years ago and saved it in Excel - I wanted to have a look at my stuff over at Humble website a few days ago and could not find them anymore - they are not under purchases, not under library, just lost somewhere. No idea what happened (maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place), but if I had not saved them in a file, it would be very frustrating looking for them. This way I just gave up looking, no problem since I have them saved on my USB

I'd say it depends on the seller.

Humble Bundle: reveal all keys -not gift links- right away and store them in a safe place.
Reason: keys aren't allocated until you try to reveal them, which means you can be left empty handed if they run out, and will have to wait for a restock.
That is, IF they restock, because sometimes they won't be able to (i.e. delisted games), or will outright refuse to, as it happened with a few Humble originals once they got Steam keys, because they sold much more than anticipated, so they used a petty "we didn't promise you a Steam key in the first place" excuse.

Addendum on gift links: due to Humble's schizophrenic policies about gifting (that unsurprisingly started once IGN took over), using gift links equals to shouting "I AM A TRADER/RESELLER", which they'll then use as an excuse to refuse ANY form of help, or outright TERMINATE your account on account of "breaching ToS".
By losing your account, you'll lose access to all your purchases (and Humble Wallet), leaving chargebacks as the only option to at least get your money back.

And even when they do help fix something THEY did wrong, they're always doing it as a "one time exception". Bottom line, you want to actively interact with Humble as rarely as possible, preferably never, and if you really must, be as vague as possible, and always be prepared for the worst.

Indie Gala: reveal all keys -gift links are fine here- right away, and use them within 60 days, because they'll refuse to listen to any complaint after that.
Even more so when dealing with bundles, as they're notoriously bad when choosing which devs/publishers to partner with - I reckon at least half of the games reported in the revoked keys megathread are from Indie Gala bundles, and some of those "devs" are known for revoking their stuff pretty often - if Valve doesn't beat them at it by booting them off the store and invalidating all their generated keys.
Bad partner choices and "no help after 60 days" policy (and subpar bundles) aside, they're alright as a company.

Fanatical is good, there have been reports of users having used keys even several years old with no issues whatsoever, and should there be issues, they won't question it as much as others do. Heck, they even replace keys from mystery bundles (with other mystery keys, of course) under the right circumstances - i.e. like that time a 65% positive game slipped into a bundle advertised as having only 80% and up games.