Beta #7 of the year is now available

Glad to hear it! :)

Hey 1P_Rob, thanks. The explanation regarding the security questions is clear. I’m liking how entire questions can be inputted, and flexibility of using short phrases if needed.
Regarding the QR code scanner, I like this version better than the earlier and I haven’t had a glitch again 😊

Hey, @abdc. Allow me to step in for Ben here.

On 6, I was storing them in the notes field or in text cells using short phrases to remind me of the questions.

I think you're referring to 3, your comments about security questions, right? If so, can you talk more about what is taking more time when you input the questions? From what I can tell, they function just like text fields if you want them to, but you can also take advantage of some suggestions for common questions and the phrase generator.

The other thought I had that you might mean is that instead of using a short phrase like "mother's maiden name", the app seems to expect you to enter the entire question "What is your mother's maiden name?" Is that what you mean? If so, I do the same thing, so I can fully relate. You should still be able to enter whatever field label you want, though.

Regarding 7, the QR scanner seems to work properly when I changed from dark mode to light mode, and I haven’t had the issue again.

That's very interesting. If you have a problem with it again it'd be great to figure it out, but I'm glad it's no longer a problem for now.

Thank you, Ben for your comprehensive and helpful reply.
On 6, I was storing them in the notes field or in text cells using short phrases to remind me of the questions.
Regarding 7, the QR scanner seems to work properly when I changed from dark mode to light mode, and I haven’t had the issue again. It’s a great improvement from drag and drop. Sometimes it also autofills the OTP on its own (wow!) but most times it does not. Please extend this to solving those annoying website captchas as well 😉

Hey @abdc!

Thanks for trying 1Password 8. I'd be happy to address that feedback. 🙂

1. As a keyboard-first user myself, I'd love to see us improve this. I see we have some thoughts around this already filed with development, and I'll add your voice to that. ref: dev/core/core#6801
2. For the most part, these should be all the same options you're seeing in 1Password 7. We've build a different interface for presenting the various options, to help improve discoverability of the templates we provide, but the options are the same.
3. Could you please clarify: do you mean this takes more time than not recording them at all, or that it takes more time than recording them in 1Password a different way? How were you previously creating and tracking these?
4. I've advocated for that as well. 🤞🏻Hopefully this is something our product team considers for inclusion. ref: IDEA-I-425
5. Thanks for reporting this. I'll have to play around with it a bit.
6. It isn't currently, but we've had that discussion. We'll see.
7. Have you been able to identify any particular circumstances where it is failing?
8. Yes, this is intentional. It is valid for some cases to need to track multiple OTPs on one item.
9. I split this one off into its own thread in our 1Password in the Browser category, as that team will be better positioned to investigate and respond on that point.

Thank you!

Ben

I'm sharing a few things that I immediately noticed after moving from 1P7 to the current beta:

1. I cannot delete tags using keystroke but have to select a menu. If I am removing multiple tags (e.g from imported data), this takes a lot longer to process
   

2. I liked the flexibility of having a simpler template and customizing it as per my workflow. I am not sure why a user may need so many options, and each of these contains several fields that are not universally applicable. I'd also like to know if there is any other difference in these templates other than the group of fields that they contain.
   

3. I like the idea of having the security questions as a separate field in the beta. It takes more maintenance though (time to input these).
   

4. I wish the linked items can be presented as backlinks (two way links) rather than just one way. For example, bank account (A) → credit card (B) implies that credit card (B) → bank account (A).

5. The search dialog box for related links jumps around quite a bit when searching. This is very distracting as it happens while typing.
   

6. I love that the tags can be nested in 1P! Is it possible to make the left tag pane collapsible? It gets unwieldy if I have several nested tags.

7. The automatic QR code scanner is great. But it fails many items. I am not sure if there's a workaround like dragging the QR code in 1P7.

8. I discovered that I can enter several one time password fields in one entry. Is that intentional? I inadvertently created two for my dropbox account which was confusing.

Thanks @wbtrans — and yes, I do seem to recall a problem with the updater in an earlier version. It may very well be that's what you were running into. In any event, I'm glad to hear it is working now. 👍🏻 If we can be of further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Ben

Hi Ben
Thanks for the hint, I actually did this in the meantime. I downloaded v 8.5.0.121, installed it and after this the switch to beta channel worked. I now have 8.6.0.51.
It seems though that v 8.4 had a problem with updating anyway.
Walter

Thanks @abdc. So glad to hear you're enjoying it. 😄

Ben

Hey @wbtrans

Could you please try downloading the latest release from here?

1Password Releases

Pick your platform in the right-hand sidebar, and then click the blue "Download 1Password for [Platform]" button. Please let us know how that turns out.

Ben