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Experiment #3 - Nearby Items

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
October 16, 2023
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Hi y'all!

I can't believe we are already shipping Experiment 3?! This one has a very special place in my heart. This project actually came out of a Hackday we did internally. Everyone was SOOOO excited about it, we wanted to share it with our users to get your feedback.

Nearby Items allows you to assign a location to an item. Then, on mobile only for now, we've added a section to the home tab that shows you items that are close to you physically. Pretty awesome, right?

The basic hypothesis here is that because people are more and more mobile, the items you need quick access to might be different based on where you are in the world. If your building at work has a door code, we'll show you that when you pull up. If you've got a storage shed, we'll show you the combo to the lock when you arrive.

This experiment is our first exploration into physical space. We know we're not "done" but wanted to get early feedback to help shape how this project evolves from here.

We're eager to hear your thoughts on Nearby Items. Let us know what you think below in this thread.

The primary questions I'm trying to answer are:

Does adding a location to an item help you get things done faster and with less friction? Do you see value in continuing to explore physical locations for items in any form?
What are the use cases where you think having an item's physical location would be valuable? We have some ideas, but I'm sure there are tons of things we aren't even thinking about.
This is a v1. If we continue to work on Nearby Items, what should we add, change, or modify to make it more valuable to you as a user?
Does it make sense to also show "nearby items" on Desktop computers?
Do you think that the current form of Nearby Items is good enough to ship in the Stable product?

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1P_MattGAuthor

1Password Employee

Nearby Items is available now in our Beta channels and will ship to stable on Dec 12th! In the meantime, here's a teaser trailer to get you all excited!

https://youtu.be/yYqLtHIL5Rw

dmacx

Wow, this feature is so smart. I use 1password for so many things in my life, not only for logins. With locations I can quickly access items.

These could be items at my office (company and teams auth), home (smart Home items, WLAN) or the local supermarket. Love it.

I would appreciate location based items via Bluetooth connections as well. This could my road bike (lock, Shimano Login items, notes if anyone is asking for my components). Or my watch.

This feature is leveling up 1password to really use it beyond logins. Please keep it.

XIII

Ad 4) Are laptops considered “Desktop computers”?

XIII

Nearby Items is available now in our Beta channels and will ship to stable on Dec 12th!

I’m running TestFlight version 8.10.22 (81022021) on my iPhone, but I don’t have the option to add a location?

dmacx

You have to enable it first in the labs settings.

XIII

You have to enable it first in the labs settings.

🤦 Of course… Thank you!

1P_MattGAuthor

1Password Employee

@XIII yes, laptops would be considered Desktop in this instance. It seems like it would be useful if you're bringing your laptop around with you everywhere you go.

ag_andrew

1Password Employee

@dmacx Thanks for the amazing feedback. We hope you'll find some fun and useful ways to use location and that you'll share your experience with us!

We have talked about using bluetooth for location awareness as well as some other ways of defining "location". We're starting with Latitude/Longitude because it's easy to visualize on a map and (most) phones have the ability to calculate the distance to fixed coordinates (nearby items).

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Anonymous

I would like to suggest adding a home address / office address and then select items that are shown if you are not at home or in the office.

There are some items like e.g. banking card pins that you primarily use during travels but that are not bound to specific locations.

This way you wouldn't need to look for the items at let's say the checkout at the supermarket.

1P_MattGAuthor

1Password Employee

@joernarne that's interesting. So rather than showing up when you are at a location, you want to see them when you are not at a set list of locations? I'll log that feedback and discuss it with the team. Could you accomplish this now with Favorites? We have also been talking about allowing multiple locations for a single item. That way if you have a gym pass (for example) and the gym has multiple locations you'd see it at any of the locations you set.

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