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January 27, 2025

"Notes" searchable in app, but not extension

  • January 27, 2025
  • 9 replies
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I've noticed that text entered under the "Notes" section is indexed/searchable using the 1Password desktop application, however the text is not searchable within the extension. For example, searching for a specific text will yield 4 results in the extension, and 2 additional results in the 1Password application.

Is this a known limitation? Thank you for reading!


1Password Version: 8.10.58
Extension Version: 8.10.58.41
OS Version: macOS 15.2
Browser: Chrome

Pinned Reply By 1P_Dave

Hello @almabuena! 👋

Thank you for reaching out. The 1Password desktop application has a more comprehensive search tool that will search through more fields than 1Password in the browser. The results that you're seeing sound expected however I've filed a feature request on your behalf to have the team look into bringing consistency to the search experience (including the ability to search notes) between the desktop app and the browser extension.

Thank you for the feedback!

-Dave

ref: PB-45951451

9 replies

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
1Password Employee
January 28, 2025

Hello @almabuena! 👋

Thank you for reaching out. The 1Password desktop application has a more comprehensive search tool that will search through more fields than 1Password in the browser. The results that you're seeing sound expected however I've filed a feature request on your behalf to have the team look into bringing consistency to the search experience (including the ability to search notes) between the desktop app and the browser extension.

Thank you for the feedback!

-Dave

ref: PB-45951451

almabuenaAuthor
January 28, 2025

Thank you Dave!

bill_ds
November 28, 2025

I'd like to up-vote this feature request.
It erodes my confidence in 1Password when I can't find login credentials using the browser extension because the keyword searched for is in the Notes field and not the Title field. Polluting the Title field with key words is an unacceptable workaround to this limitation.

1P_Timothy
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 1, 2025

Hi @bill_ds, thanks for sharing your interest in expanded search capabilities in the 1Password extension. 

I'm curious about the keyword system you're employing to search for items. Could you share a bit more about how you're using keywords, and the sort of scenario where you would search for a keyword instead of an item name typically? While I can't promise the search behaviour will be changed, I'd be happy to include that feedback in a feature request. Thanks again!

bill_ds
December 1, 2025

Hi @1P_Timothy ,
Yes. For example, my pharmacy is Express Scripts. In the Notes field I have several keywords: pharmacy, medicine, drugs, Rx, etc.
In the standalone app, I can pull up the Login record by just typing 'rx,' or any other keyword.
In the browser, the extension can't find the record unless I type the name in the title.

September 1, 2026

I see many posts on this topic, but this is the most recent one, so adding my comments here. I also have a need for the browser extension to search the Notes field. Many websites use third-party portals that don’t always match the name of the site. Like a financial site might use some third-party “secureportal.com” (not real), or a medical site might use “healthrecords.com” (not real). Or my company uses a third-party payroll processor whose name I can never remember. So the 1Password entry name is the name of the site (e.g., “Secure Portal” or “Health Records” or “Payroll Site”). And then I put findable info in notes, such as the name of the bank, doctor, or my company. I want search to find those terms in Notes, so I don’t need to remember that my bank site is “Secure Portal”.

As the other poster noted, the hacky solution is to pollute the entry name, such as making it “Secure Portal (Bank name)”. This gets more complicated when it’s one third-party service that handles multiple sites. Tags don’t help because the tag is “Finance” or “Health”, which applies to dozens of entries.

In today’s “search first” climate, it’s frustrating that the browser extension has such a limited search domain.