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Well "safe". Once your written down password is compromised (e.g. with a photo of a page), the entropy for cracking the password is tremendously minimized. In combination with dumped hashes of the site in question even more.

Maybe a password card is a better solution? [1]

[1]: https://www.passwordcard.org/en



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