Search no longer searches Notes

Sure! Being a product manager myself, I completely understand. In my workflow, I populate the Notes of a record with details that may not be included in the URL or name of the record that help me surface that record upon searching for it. I tend to use my password manager as a bookmark manager of sorts, so when I want to visit a particular site, I'll pop open the browser extension and search for the site I want to visit, often using shorthand or references included in the Notes field. Upon finding them, I'll use the Open and Fill option to visit the site.

I've started adjusting my workflow to include those details in the Name field, so that they're searchable, but am struggling with the backlog of hundreds of records that I imported from Lastpass where these details live in Notes.

Agree that I could open the desktop app to perform this search, it's just a change in habits for myself. Not a huge deal by any means, but I guess I just expected there would be feature parity between the desktop and Chrome extension in this instance. Thanks for your attention and for passing along my notes to the correct parties. So far I'm generally quite happy with the product, being only a week in. And I'm absolutely satisfied with the customer support and attention, so thank you!

Hello @entheo,

Thanks for your kind reply and attention to detail here. I've passed your notes along to the team.

Let us know if you need anything further, we'll be happy to help!

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@ag_mike_d

Could you let us know what challenges you are experiencing when searching 1Password in the browser?

A recent example: I have a Secure Note for each car, with the VIN, license plate number and other details. These are not logins, but occasionally sites require one or the other as identifier. I remember the first few letters of the license, but that doesn't help me in the browser search. I need to remember the note title and search for it, or I need to switch to the app and use "show all matching items" of the search.

I agree with the many voices that two search functions are unnecessary -- one that works properly is enough.

My suggestion is that the search should display all matches up to a given number (maybe 8?), and if there are more matches, then there is a line at the bottom that says "Show all matching items". This way I have the option to type more to narrow the search or to type Ctrl+Enter to show all matching items. But I get to see whatever is currently matching, not an arbitrary subset of that. This is also how search works across many different applications and websites.

I consider the search, as it is today, unnecessarily broken.

Hello @gerhard498,

Thanks for your feedback and weighing in on this discussion regarding the search functionality of 1Password and this particular use case. I've included your feedback for the team's review.

Let us know if you need anything else.

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Hi all, is there an equivalent way of doing this on a Mac using the Chrome extension?

Hello @baespey,

Thanks for your question! The capabilities of 1Password in the browser on the Mac are the same as Windows. I've created a new Insight highlighting your interest in the ability of searching note fields through the browser extension. 👍

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ag_mike_d,

Thank you for your involvement in soliciting user feedback and trying to improve the product.

+1 on requesting browser extension ability for search bar to search ALL fields, or at minimum the NOTES section. You were asking for real-world examples....

I used LastPass for many years, and recently purchased 1Password subscription. LastPass search function in the browser extension searched all fields instantaneously, and makes it SUPER EASY to find so many entries based on the NOTES I had created.

I've used 1Password for a few months now, and am continually annoyed that search doesn't search NOTES, thus resulting in very few hits on my searches. I basically have to know the URL or title for search to work. (I imported my 400+ entries from LastPass into 1Password)

i.e. With LastPass I could search for "sunshine", where my notes say = "favorite is sunshine aero pizza" in my notes, and it would return hits Gambinos, etc.
But with 1Password, searching for "sunshine" or even "pizza" results in ZERO hits, and I have to search for the names or URL contents.

i.e. For parking reservations at Dulles airport, with LastPass I type in "parking", which finds my notes entry for "dullespayandgo.com".
With 1Password I have to remember the URL words "dulles" or "payandgo".

Appreciate if 1Password will consider searching ALL FIELDS IN BROWSER EXTENSION.

Thank you,
Marc S.

Hello @globtrkr,

Thanks for your +1 to this feature request to include searching of all fields in 1Password in the browser.

I've filed this request to share your feedback and examples with our Product team. They regularly review feature requests from our customers to consider what should be added to future versions of 1Password. Your feedback, along with feedback from our other customers, helps them immensely with their planning.

If you have any future suggestions, please let us know. We're always here to help!

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I'm using the Windows desktop application and if I type a keyword into the search field at the top, the drop-down showing matching items will not show entries that contain my keyword in the notes field. If I then press Ctrl+Enter to complete the search, the results will show entries that contain my keyword in the notes field.

When I am searching for something, if I'm not seeing what I'm looking for in the quick-results drop-down, I refine my keywords to try and produce the result I'm looking for. This approach does not work with 1Password. I found this very unintuitive, and it's been my biggest (and really my only) frustration since migrating from KeePass.

Hello @shug,

Thanks for your message and feedback about the search functionality within 1Password. Other customers have expressed that they would like to see improvements here and I've included your comments for our Product team as well.

If you have any other feedback to share, please let us know.

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