Secure Notes missing line breaks when markdown is turned off in 1Password for Windows

@srumelhart

Thank you for the report and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We're currently testing a fix for the issue in the latest nightly version of 1Password. If testing goes well there then the fix will be added to the beta and then the stable version as soon as possible.

We do not use Markdown because there are cases where a password in a secure note uses multiple *. As an example, if you have password123456, it will be presented as password123456, with 123 in italics...which doesn't work.

The Secure Note item (and field) isn't really designed for passwords, is there a reason why you don't save those passwords in a password field by adding a custom field to the item in question? You can read more about custom fields here: Customize your 1Password items

-Dave

The reason is because we have one secure note for an entire site. We do work as a managed services provider for solar and wind generation sites. There are hundreds of devices between firewalls, switches, servers, and other substation OT equipment, and it's easier to have it all in a secure note. Also, there are descriptions and notes on how to connect to the various devices and information about things to be aware of, such as some devices need to be restarted in a certain order, services on servers that need to be running after Windows Updates, etc. There isn't really a good fit to have each device with it's own custom field. We may consider custom fields at some point, but each site has it's own idiosyncrasies and the secure note with it's free form capability works well for us at the moment.

By the way, we really enjoy using 1Password...I started using it for our company 6 years ago for a small team, and now we are rolling out in phases for all 240+ in our company.

@srumelhart

Thank you for sharing your use case. Hopefully the fix graduates from the nightly version to the beta/stable version soon.

I'm glad to hear that you and your team are enjoying 1Password. 💙

-Dave

So glad this is going to be fixed. We disable Markdown in notes since it messes with any included passwords/keys that have symbols. Was tiring having to edit a note to copy something from it. Thanks for the quick turn around!

This is still somewhat broken. So the latest beta fixed the linefeed problem, but you can't select and copy anything from the Secure Note without editing it. PLEASE fix this - we use this constantly.

Just saw the note above about use cases. We use Secure Notes as an MSP as well for clients to make notes about rarely used passwords and other things. We don't want 30 individual login records for a client. Impossible to organize easily. We open a secure note and it's all there for each client. I think you'll find a lot of people do this.

@ITXinNC

I'm sorry for the inconvenience. A fix for an issue where a note can't be selected and copied from the 1Password app when markdown is turned off is currently being tested in the nightly version of 1Password. Once testing is complete the fix will be promoted to the beta and then the stable version as well.

-Dave

Hello everyone,

1Password for Windows version 8.10.54 now includes a fix for an issue where plain text notes wouldn’t show line breaks. Please update to receive the fix:

• How to keep 1Password up to date

There is still an outstanding issue where plain text notes can't be selected when markdown is turned off and our team is testing a fix for that issue in the nightly version of 1Password and plans to release it to the beta and stable version as soon as possible.

-Dave

• Mac update thread, here: https://1password.community/discussion/148857
• split thread, re. browser extensions' plain text handling fixes needed, here: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/721530 )

Looks like it's fixed with latest updates, great!

1Password for Windows 8.10.56