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March 14, 2024
Question

How to get my custom categories to appear in the sidebar?

  • March 14, 2024
  • 12 replies
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I've enabled showing categories in the sidebar, but it only shows Logins and Identities. I have so many other categories associated with the items I imported to my vault, ie., Utilities, Music, Health, Autos, etc. It would help streamline what I want to view, and locate entries more easily.

Update: I have not found a way to show those categories, but I have found that I can create a tag that matches the category, and those headings will appear in the sidebar. It sort of makes any category entry on the actual entry pointless, tho.


1Password Version: 8.10.27
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: Mac OS 14
Browser: Safari

12 replies

TopoAuthor
March 18, 2024

Hi Dave...Tags seem to accomplish what I want. I have way more categories than the built in ones. They just don't have the little custom icon. IMO, this is something that will enhance the user experience greatly. Categories such as Entertainment, Insurance, Auto, Home Mac Software, TV & Music Streaming, Photo/Video, Cloud Storage accounts, etc. I could go on and on, but suffice to say, it would be great if the system allowed creating your own categories and adding your own icon. For now, tho, it seems that the Tags do the same thing, minus the customization of look. Along with this feature should be the ability to drag any item onto the category shown in the sidebar, for it to be immediately added to that category list. Hope you can help to make engineering work on this. Thanks

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
March 18, 2024

@Topo

Thank you for the feedback. While I can't make any promises, I've let the team know that you would appreciate a feature to create custom categories. Such a feature will be considered for future versions of 1Password.

It sounds like using tags is a great solution for the time being. 🙂

-Dave