Experiment #3 - Nearby Items

I think, favorites are for that specific use case if I'm not home.

Yeah, favourites sort of work for that. But when I'm at home at my laptop I usually need other favourites than while I'm outside.

It's not a desperately needed feature. It just came to my mind thinking about items I need vs. Items I don't need depending on the location I am at.

Thanks a lot for the great feedback/ideas @joernarne.

This is one of those moments where I'm so grateful we've got folks like your good self sharing ideas that we probably wouldn't have thought of as this goes in the opposite direction to how and where the team were thinking items should show up.

That said, it sounds like you kind of want 1Password to have a bit more location awareness in general. Your feedback's giving me some interesting ideas that I'm excited to explore more with the team.

Cheers again Joe!

I’d like to assign names to locations, which could then be displayed instead of coordinates (when editing an item).

Examples of names: “Home”, “Work”, “School”, “Gym”, etc.

I want that even more now that I see that all items at the same location have random distances in 1Password.

I have added six items at home, but they are listed as 3, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 12m away…

@XIII Thank you! Naming locations is high on our own list for this feature, it was likely the first thing I was bugging our ever-so-talented devs for when they were working up proof of concepts of adding locations to items.

Regarding the mismatch of distances, I'll double check but I think this may due to GPS having an at best 5m radius(?) of accuracy, rather than a pin-point accuracy and you'll get a bit of a 'estimation' to the location.

Thanks for all the feedback so far. This is super helpful. I'm still really interested in hearing more use cases where location aware items would be useful.

I think it’d be useful if we could add common locations to our profile/settings (home, work, gym, supermarket, vet, doctor, etc) so we can quickly assign saved locations to any item (or select multiple items and add a location). I think it’d be useful to be able to add multiple locations, e.g. supermarkets, second office location, etc.

Favourite locations should have a geofence of say 25-50m so we don’t get the issue of having nearby items 1, 3, 5, etc metres away - they would all fall into the one location even if the coordinates are slightly different. I don’t think we need pinpoint accuracy for this sort of thing. That sort of range would cover most small to medium building footprints.

Other non-favourite locations may not need a geofence, but I wouldn’t think it be such an issue at places less frequently visited.

Interesting that when I search for place names or addresses, their electoral ward and district shows up rather than the actual street address.

This is a very interesting feature. Here are a few suggestions:

• The ability to assign multiple locations to a given item.
• A way to easily pick current location (doesn't seem feasible on Android).
• Being able to set the radius per item and not app-wide: I would like to have my university account visible on the whole campus, while my home Wifi password is only relevant when I'm close to my router.
• To have the nearby items menu automatically retracted when there's no nearby item and unfolded otherwise.

Thanks!

This is great feedback. I hadn't thought about setting a radius per item. That's an interesting one and I can see the value. I also like the idea of hiding the nearby items menu if there's nothing to show. Do you see this as hiding the menu completely? That would remove the ability to change the search radius.