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January 9, 2023
Question

Can't search within Secure Note

  • January 9, 2023
  • 47 replies
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I am using 8.9.11. I, too, am frustrated by the lack of ability of search within a Secure Note, a feature that existed in previous versions of 1Password. I open "edit" of the secure note and then hit Command F. The search window opens with the vault information already entered (e.g., ==vault:Personal). If I add my search term to that string, the results I get are a list of places within the vault that contain the term. I get the same results if I delete that string and type in my search term by itself. But I cannot search within the open Secure Note for the occurrence of that term. It seems from other posts here that this feature has been removed. If so, add my vote to returning it as soon as possible. If this feature is still available, can you tell me how to accomplish it? Thanks.


1Password Version: 8.9.11
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OS Version: Ventura 13.1
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Referrer: forum-search:https://1password.community/search?Search=search%20inside%20secure%20notes

47 replies

1Password Employee
January 10, 2023

Hi @Baldner 👋🏻

Sorry for any interruption to your workflow that this has caused. There is a feature request currently open with our Product Team regarding searching the contents of Secure Notes. I've added your feedback there. 🙂

January 10, 2023

Thank you.

1P_PeterG
Community Manager
January 10, 2023

Sure thing, @Baldner, and thank you for your post. We're happy to help!

January 18, 2023

I commented on another thread back in October but want to add another vote, please bring back this ability! My team will never be able to upgrade to v8 without being able to search within Secure Notes, it's vital to our ability to function.

Also, I'm not sure if this has been resolved since I last tested in October, but please bring back the search auto-populating the entire results in the window like v7. When I last tested v8 it had a separate dropdown of results instead and if you hit Enter it would open the top result, you had to hit something like CMD+Enter to get all the results and it was a complete disaster, no idea why you'd break something that was working great.

January 23, 2023

Just switched to 1Password and it is really hard to find anything in long secure notes without being able to search through the text. Using Windows Application. +11111111

hardybird
January 23, 2023

+1 A lot of us recent Lastpass converts REALLY need the ability to search all of the Notes contents in order to get our info organized in 1Password. Notes search is a critical functionality and I hope (pray) that the developers have this as a high priority.

andrew_l_1P
1Password Employee
January 25, 2023

@c4jeff,

Thanks for your additional input, I can confirm your earlier feedback was recorded and have included what you mentioned here about how search results function. If you have any examples of how you or your team are using Secure Notes to store data, I'm happy to include those as well. 🙂

@jtek and @hardybird,

Welcome to 1Password! I'm sorry to hear this is creating some friction with your onboarding experiences. I've recorded your feedback for the rest of the team and appreciate you letting us know this is important to you. Let me know if I can help with anything in the meantime!

ref: PB-30507743

February 25, 2023

I agree with the other commenters. Please make it possible to search text within notes!

andrew_l_1P
1Password Employee
February 25, 2023

Hi @mpw2102,

Thanks for letting us know this is important to you, I'll share your feedback with the team. Let me know if you have any examples or use cases you'd like me to add. 👍

ref: PB-31249027

March 5, 2023

Wow, yet another feature that was removed with 1PW8 :(

Please add me as yet another +1 that needs this returned. Being able to search secure notes was an important feature.

Seriously AgileBits - what were you thinking? I had waited before considering migrating to 1PW8, similar to what I have done in the past so I could take the time to get used to it. This is the first time where there is so much functionality and so many features that have been removed that the new version is not even close to be usable for me.

As I had been trying to use 1PW8 over the past week, every time I could not find something I had used with previous versions I came to this forum to see if I was just missing it. Sadly almost every single item already has a thread similar to this, where something intentionally got removed and there are others asking for it to be returned.

There are things to like about 1PW8, but the actual real loss of so much functionality completely overshadows any potential benefits and makes this a huge step backwards.