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Former Member
4 years ago1Password 8 search
Hi,
Longtime 1Password user since 2010 but first time posting here :)
I recently upgraded to 1P 8 on both my Windows and Mac and couldn't help but notice the search bar doesn't seem to search th...
Former Member
4 years agoHi, first I wanted to do a seperate message to 1Passwords support team, but because of finding this post ... .
The search of 1Password 8 is one of that things that really makes me unhappy and go back to 1PW 7.
What I would like to see first is to search parts of words as discussed above. For example "-11123" will show item "98679-45345-11123"
Then a quick access from the searchfield to define where the default search should work on Item name, content, comment, ..."
Then the searchfilters are a great idea but usage is really userunfreandly and slow. Type "=vault:VAULTNAME" makes it slow and not userfriendly to remember the key words vault, tag, category, ... .
My suggestion here: Lets type "==". Then automatically a list appears, that shows the different search options: 1: tag, 2: category, 3: vault, 4: ... and so on. Now you can select the category by mouseclick, arrow keys or even faster by just typing the number, that stays in front of the search option. Now to have a better overview in the searchfield, there dose not appear "=vault" (or what ever category to search for is selected). Just display an icon that represents the category. now typing a word (or a part of the word) will only be searched in the befour selected category.
To make it even faster you can do it like type "==" --> DropDown shows search areas. Type "3 + ENTER" --> For example searches for Vaults. --> A default vault icon is showen in the search bar and the next drop down is shown with all the vaults that exist. Now start typing the vault name, select by arrow keys or again selcting the number in front of the vault name and press ENTER. --> Now the search field shows the default vault icon followed by the icon of the selected vault. Now typing in the search field searches only in the selected vault.
Hope the steps are clear - I think, that will do the search also much better and faster.
Two in this post off topic feature - I hope its ok to post them here :-) :
I would like to see the ability to link a password of one item to an other item.
In our company we still have some different places, where we need to enter our windows user credentials.
Some tools as well as some intranet pages and services. We also need to change the passwords after a period of time.
Now I have to change the password at all this items.
It would be good to have the ability to create one user login item and in other items I would like to reffer to the user login item. Now, when I need to change my user password I only need to do that at one place.
It would also be great if instead of only be able to enter WEB URLs to have the ability to open a local or network directory in finder or explorer.
Then it also would be great to have the ability to specify the tool, that will be used to open an entry.
For most websites I use Firefox (default). For some I need to use chrome. It would be great to specyfy that in 1Password in the different items. Maybe also open a tool with some extra parameters would be great.
As a workaround for usage of different browsers at different websites I am using "Open in" on my Mac. But it would be much nicer to specify it directly in 1PW ♥
The last topic:-)
When searching a secure note (with fast search / SHIFT + STRG + SPACE on Windows) you can open a sub menue with the right key.
There is an option to open this note. But then you have to close this window manualy again.
I have some notes with different URLs inside. With that it would be great with a workflow where search the secure note, jump into that note, select one link by by arrow keys, press enter to open that link AND close the secure note window.