Search in 1Password 8

Hi @Terylon and @viswiz,

Thanks for surfacing this. I can confirm this has already been logged internally and remains open. I'll add both your remarks and hope we can look forward to an improvement, though I'm afraid I can't share any timelines. Apologies for any confusion this has caused!

ref: dev/core/core#18107

Let me add my vote to change the Search/Find record function in 1Password 8 for the Mac. I want to be able to type in my keyword and hit Enter and get results. Like every other app. I can't seem to break this habit. The result is always a single record, a-swim in a sea of irrelevant results. I feel like I've hit Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button. And then I say a naughty word. Every time.

I do understand that when I type in my keyword but before I hit Enter, I get a dropdown menu of suggestions that seem to be weighted toward having that keyword in the title. But the font is small and bold, making it slow and tiring to read for me with a Dark themed screen. Plus the titles are truncated. Yuck.

I'd like to search for a keyword (say, "Hostgator"), press Enter, and see only the 4 records with Hostgator in the title then populate the records area. It would THEN be nice to do something else (hit a button?) to see all records that contain "Hostgator". That would be logical, easy to use, and in line with the way most other apps on the planet are designed.

I try to sing the praises of 1P to friends, but if I give a demo, they do the same thing as I do: they hit "enter" without looking at the dropdown choices. Then they look at me, confused. I have to tell them that your app will hopefully get a thoughtful redesign in the near future.

I really do love 1P. But I use it so often that these small annoyances really add up. Thanks, and keep up the (mostly) excellent work.

@greenday

Thank you for the detailed feedback! I've passed along your comments and suggestion to our Product team who will consider it for the future. In the meantime, if you missed the mention earlier in the thread, you can press Command-Enter (rather than pressing Enter by itself ) to open all matching items in the centre column. I know that this doesn't speak fully to the workflow issues that you've brought up but I'm mentioning it in case it helps.

And thank you for sharing 1Password with your friends. 😊

-Dave

ref: PB-33263252

Yep. That Command-Enter is the part I’m complaining about.

After almost two years since the 1PW8 was released and numerous complaints about the changes to the search UI, nothing has been changed. Even the developer who conducted the usability studies that led to the change at the time is now questioning the change. Absolutely every application with search functionlatity I use uses the same, simple, intuitive pattern: search as you type and show all results immediatly inline - no relevance filtering, no superflous popup window and no extra shortcut to show all results.
Please, please revert this awful search UI of 1PW8 to the far superior and much more common approach of 1PW7. Yes, I know about the CMD+ALT+F workaround, but it's not a replacement for the proper search all previous 1PW versions had.

@greenday

Thank you for clarifying, I've passed along your suggestions and comments to our Product team.

@viswiz

Thank you for the feedback as well.

-Dave

ref: PB-33263252
ref: PB-33301133