Nested folders in department vaults

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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

Pinned Reply By 1P_Dave

@Xelaecon

Welcome to the 1Password Community, and thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. I can certainly understand that if you're used to organizing your information with folders, having that option available would be important to you.

Today, 1Password is designed around vaults as the primary way to organize, separate, and encrypt data, with tags providing a more flexible way to categorize items across those vaults. Because of that security design, traditional folders aren't currently available.

That said, we do have an open feature request for folder support, and I've added your feedback to it. While I can't promise if or when this functionality might be introduced, the product team will continue to consider it as they evaluate future improvements to 1Password.

-Dave

1P_Dave

1Password Employee

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

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TheGAuthor

Thanks Dave, I will give this a go .

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TheGAuthor

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

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

-Dave

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Xelaecon

Please understand, nobody cares about tagging passwords… we need folders, we need structure. Folders and structure foster self-training. A new hire to the team can simply navigate the password vault and have a snapshot of the job and structure of the systems.

Folders/subfolders are mandatory in all tools, and if you disagree you are wrong. If you are going to seriously sit there and correct your paying customers who actually use this tool more extensively than you could ever hope, you’re wrong.

Tags are nice, but tags are not useful. Listen to your customers. Paying customers. What is so complicated here?

Explain to me, technically, why it is not viable for us to have folders/sub-folders (and yes, I feel I need to be explicit because you need to understand folders can and should always have subfolders).

Explain to me what impacts and costs the implementation of folders will have on the 1Password bottom line?

Explain to me how the customer is wrong, and we need to bow to your prowess and intelligence, for we are not worthy of your perspective.

Hudu has folders, you are losing to Hudu - which is an inferior password management solution - because they have SUBFOLDERS!

Explain yourselves.

1P_Dave

1Password Employee

@Xelaecon

Welcome to the 1Password Community, and thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. I can certainly understand that if you're used to organizing your information with folders, having that option available would be important to you.

Today, 1Password is designed around vaults as the primary way to organize, separate, and encrypt data, with tags providing a more flexible way to categorize items across those vaults. Because of that security design, traditional folders aren't currently available.

That said, we do have an open feature request for folder support, and I've added your feedback to it. While I can't promise if or when this functionality might be introduced, the product team will continue to consider it as they evaluate future improvements to 1Password.

-Dave

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