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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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47 replies

March 10, 2023

We really need this ASAP.
I switched from LastPass and they had this funcionality (on Windows but not on Mac).
We need to be able to search within Notes, just like the native Mac Notes App offers ;)

Hope this is coming soon please. Thanks!

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
March 13, 2023

Thank you for sharing your use case and need to search within a Secure Note saved in 1Password. I've passed along your comments and request to our product team. 🙂

-Dave

ref: PB-31639686

March 21, 2023

NEED THIS FUNCTIONALITY. What good are notes without a search? Checking calendar... yes, this is the 21st century...

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
March 21, 2023

@EditingFX

I've shared your request with our product team. Thank you for the feedback. 🙂

-Dave

ref: PB-31810012

April 18, 2023

We are also just new from Lastpass and the lack of note searching is a huge problem!! We are looking at other services over this one missing feature. If you need a use case, I'll explain ours. We are a digital agency which often holds access to multiple types of accounts for our clients. So our structure is a single Note for each client, with all their applicable logins in one place. We do NOT want to have one off passwords for each thing scattered throughout. We also put other noteworthy and sensitive info in here for our team to easily manage clients they are assigned to. So these notes get long for larger clients. Scrolling in them is torture. We need to search in them. We had that in Lastpass and it worked beautifully. Please prioritize this key missing feature. My team is begging me to leave 1password for something else and I'd rather not if we can work this out.

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
April 19, 2023

@karenalenore

Thank you for the feedback and welcome to 1Password! 🙂

Using a single Secure Note to store multiple passwords as well as other information seems like it would get complicated and messy really quickly. Is there a reason why you don't want to use separate Login items for each account? You can create a vault for each client and even link those items together: Link related items in 1Password

By putting all passwords and information into one Secure Note you also lose out on 1Password features such as concealed password fields, Watchtower warnings about password reuse and breached accounts, individual secure item sharing, and more.

Alternatively, if you did want to keep using one item per client have you considered using custom fields rather than putting all of the information into the Secure Note field: Customize your 1Password items

-Dave

April 19, 2023

@1P_Dave Thank you for the reply. That's an interesting suggestion on how to reorganize what we're doing. In LP we didn't have the option of more than one vault so that level of sub organization was not something we considered. It might work or it might get sloppy. Let me play around and see what we can do! Thanks again.

PS. I still thing notes should be searchable regardless of this use case. Its a intuitively expected feature that is missing.

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
April 19, 2023

@karenalenore

Let us know if there's any other assistance that we can provide! I'd also encourage you to reach out to your account manager or our business team at business@1password.com to discuss this in more detail.

PS. I still thing notes should be searchable regardless of this use case. Its a intuitively expected feature that is missing.

I agree that this would be useful to many and I've forwarded your feedback to our product team. 🙂

-Dave

ref: PB-32534517

May 3, 2023

Hi There
i'm a new user from LP and I really want to search in secure notes. Is there any update on this ?

1P_Tommy
1Password Employee
May 3, 2023

@wielp

No. None that I am immediately aware of at this time. Sorry. I can and would be happy to let the team know you would like to see searching within Secure Notes.

ref: PB-32825749