1Password 8, is there not longer an open to default vault anymore?

WestW This doesn't do what you are suggesting it does. Collections are collections of vaults. "New item" makes the first checked vault in a collection the default vault for the new item. When you select a vault collection in the UI via the pulldown, you limit the displayed passwords to the vaults included in that collection. Yes, I can create a collection called "default value" and check the vault that I want as the default for "New item", but then 1Password will not show me the passwords from the unchecked vaults in the collection.

Removing the default vault as a setting was a UI screwup that should be rectified. I've been a happy 1Password customer for nearly 15 years. This one change is causing me to seriously consider moving back to 1Password7. I've now created multiple items that have gone into my Private vault (because Private is the first item in the list for vault collections) instead of shared them with my wife. The purpose of a family account is to share.

I even tried coming up with a workaround -- I renamed the vault I wanted as the default "1. Shared". Next, I created a vault collection selecting all of my vaults. This should have pushed my value to the top of the list. But instead, 1Password has a hard sort forcing "Private" to the top regardless of the names of the other vaults.