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June 25, 2025
Question

Nested folders in department vaults

  • June 25, 2025
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The issue I am having is that we save a very large number of credentails and details in 1password,  and currently, I am creating vaults with names of the department and a subsection name as part of the vault name

As an example for illustration only: for HR,  I have a vault called   HR-References, another vault called HR-AnnualLeave,   and another called   HR-Attendance

But this means we end up with a massively long list of vaults.  It would be much much better if we could have nested vaults, or even folder to contains to store all the different sets of data in an organised manner under the one parent vault.

so ideally we would have a vault called HR, and then within that vault, either subvaults, or folders/containers that could contain specific items by topic

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

2 replies

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
June 27, 2025

Hello @TheG! 👋

Thanks for reaching out! 1Password doesn't have sub-vaults or a folder hierarchy but have you considered using tags?

As long as you don't need to assign different levels of permission to the different collections of items you could have one vault named "HR" and then the following tags for specific items: HR-References, HR-AnnualLeave, and HR-Attendance.

Users could then just view the items with that tag by clicking the tag in the sidebar or by using a search filter in the desktop app: Search in the 1Password app to find what you need

Let me know if that doesn't work for you.

-Dave

TheGAuthor
July 3, 2025

Thanks Dave, I will give this a go .

TheGAuthor
December 8, 2025

Hi Dave,
Tags just dont work effectively.  We need nested folders,  and I am sick of being pestered by our staff for them.

Come renewal, this will be raised as a major issue.

Any news?

Thanks

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
December 8, 2025

I don't have any news to share. The feature request remains open with our product team to be considered in the future. 

-Dave