1PW8 - Missing Category view in left bar

Although the sidebar of 1PW7 wasn‘t perfect it was much better than the current solution. My account contains only two vaults and very few tags. I typically use category filters and search. The filters are now hidden and require more clicks. Search in 1PW8 is a mess rarely finding what I am looking for. I’ve never used drag and drop to the sidebar because I prefer context menus.
Maybe the sidebar content could be made switchable or separated by tabs.

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+1 for me too. I really REALLY used that and I’d love to have it back.

+1

I hate the new layout.
Maybe "hate" is too strong. The browser helper isn't as helpful as it thinks it is, and especially then, the new layout is definitely a step backwards. If you're trying to simplify the interface, then move the vaults to a drop-down/pop-up, not the categories.

I miss having the categories in the left sidebar, too. Especially in the browser, 8's attempts to help are frequently unhelpful. I find myself having to stumble through menus to get to what I want.
It feels like this was an attempt to dumb-down/simplify the interface, but at least for power/early access/beta users, I don't think it's an improvement.

Oh come on, if you're going to push the option to hide the sidebar completely, we should be able to have categories in the sidebar! Rather that address that it is currently useless for anyone with no tags and a zillion vaults, that's basically giving up and getting rid of it.

Edit: This also crept up with the continual degrading of the 1P Mini. There's some section of the base that absolutely has to have a bunch of white space with zero functionality (a common theme in Mac/iOS apps, let's be real) to the detriment of people who have things to do with little time and want to be able to do with the least amount of rigmorale and "workarounds" possible.

And for me it's absolut useless to have the tags on the left side, i don't work with it. so maybe it would be possible to define in settings i will have the tags on top and categories on left side or i will have the tags on left and categories on top.

Hi, i would love to get the categories back on left side! Please! For me it's much easier to switch between categories on the left than to bring my mouse to top of the app every time i want to switch a categorie. maybe it's possible to bring an opinion to settings to let the user her-/himself decide where to have the categories.

There is massive empty space (most of it wasted for blank white space that looks completely un-Mac-like) in this sidebar. Disclosure triangles make it simple to keep things decluttered (though they are completely broken in this app and do not animate because of Electron). Categories should definitely be listed here. There's plenty of room, particularly since you're forced to make the window tall to avoid the eyesore of the cut off "not really a menu" on the right side of the window.