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1P8 QuickAccess requires more work to use...
on 1P7, I would often press command-option-\ to pull up the 1Password helper (or whatever it was called. From there I could type in a search for my wife's social security number. It would pull up a window that showed the details for her SSN. I could press and hold the option key and it would reveal her SSN and I could just remember the last 4 digits, and type them into whatever thing I needed to enter them in. All the 1p7 interface would go away as soon as this was done. I could also very easily using the keyboard arrow keys, tab over to her SSN and copy it to the clipboard for later pasting. I could do this win any field - awesome for entering credit cards on a site where 1Password can't detect the correct places for entering this data.
WIth 1 Password 8, this is all much harder to do. If I now choose to "view details" of my credit card, or my wife's SSN, I get a window that pops up not he screen. I must now use my mouse to copy and paste the pieces that I need, and simply holding down Option does not reveal the secrets, unless I have clicked in this new window first to give it focus.
Also, that window hands around indefinitely (at least until 1Pass next locks itself. I want the 1Pass 7 functionality returned to the quick action or menubar helper.
Also Also, when in a web page, and 1Password wants to be helpful, it puts the 1Password logo in the fields it thinks it can fill. But tabbing to the field does not trigger 1Password to fill the password. I need to manually click the 1password logo to get it to offer me choices to fill. This again requires me to move my hands form the keyboard. You are slowing me down.
Lastly, if I press cmd-opt-\ Quick Access pops up and I have to search for the thing I want - the 1Pass 7 way of doing things more often than not had the correct item already selected when I pressed cmd-option-\
Really, to be honest, using 1password 8 is like pulling teeth. I have been using it for many weeks now and I cannot get used to the changes to quick access. I don't like it. Please abandon this direction or I may seriously need to abandon 1Password myself.
Quick Access is a mistake.
1Password Version: 8.7.0 80700095
Extension Version: 2.3.3
OS Version: 12.3.1
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Well, you may think Quick Access is the future, and it may well be. But if your release of 1Pass 8 requires more work to use, you will just alienate your existing user base.
1P_PeterGCommunity Manager
Hi thewellington, thanks for this thoughtful and detailed critique.
The kind of workflows you've described here are something we're very interested in. I can really appreciate what you're saying - it sounds like you're looking for short, elegant paths that get you where you want to go. Makes sense to me!
Quick Access is an active area of focus for us here, partly because we think it has so much potential. There's a lot of things it already does really well, but development on Quick Access has by no means halted - it'll continue to evolve. I wish that I could offer a more substantive response at the moment, but just want to reassure you that this kind of intuitive quality, that efficiency and element of elegance, is something we also value highly. The kind of workflows you describe are certainly always on our minds.
TL;DR: We're always trying to make 1Password the best it can be, and I hope that our efforts to come in this area will delight you.
