1PW8 - Missing Category view in left bar

ability to keep the Category selection when navigating between vaults
That's the biggest point for me - I usually only want to see logins unless I am explicitly hunting for something else. But it's just easier because you can see all of your categories at once without having to do another UI interaction to find them.

This is a bit of a pattern with 1Password 8 in general for me - lots of things take an extra interaction or two over 7.

Tags are basically useless to me because they're a manual thing I have to set on my items - and I have hundreds of items in 1Password. Categories are a reasonable starting point that sorts data for based on what item type it already is - instead of requiring me to move it around manually.

edit: at a minimum, I would make it so that the current drop down remembers the last value you set for each vault. but that's still not great compared to the previous UI, in my opinion.

The sidebar in 1Password 7 has problems. It is overloaded, it does too much. There are two different states that present different information (vaults vs categories) and this is confusing, especially to new users. Even I got lost a quite a few times trying to use the sidebar. Dr Wave was extremely unhappy about it when we launched 1Password 7 and he was right.

We don't really have a perfect solution at this time. I personally like the current solution a lot but I also see how it might not be fitting in other users workflow and we should figure this out. (To be fair, I am mostly the "search" and not "organize" person and at the moment I am lobbying for the option to hide the sidebar completely).

So far I saw a few arguments for the old way of presenting categories:

• faster (one-click vs 2-clicks) filtering, let's say to quickly see all Credit Cards.
• showing item counts (to see how many Passports or Driver Licenses are in the vault/account)
• ability to keep the Category selection when navigating between vaults
• the old sidebar better represented the internal structure/model/taxonomy of the data (personally, I would disagree with that)

Did I miss anything else?

One thing I liked about the old sidebar was that the app would remember which category I wanted to view. In v8, every time I return to the vault, the filter is reset to All Items. I generally am working in Logins unless I'm looking for something specific and I don't like having to switch the filter every time.

+1 for the suggestion from @tomjepp for collapsible sections, that 1PW will remember. That is a pretty standard convention.

+1 on this. The dropdown menu is far less convenient. Maybe make the sections in the sidebar collapsible and make it remember which are open and which are collapsed?

I agree with @FelixSe , please make this optional if you do bring it back.

IMHO, the new dropdown menu is much better (and makes more sense) and the sidebar is far less crowded.

-1 from me.

If you bring this back please make it optional, I don’t care about categories but I really enjoy the new collections feature. But having collections, vaults and categories all in the sidebar would be too much

Adding my vote to this as well.

OAW, @dougl:

Thank you both for the feedback! I have let the developers know that you would also like to see this change :+1:

ref: dev/core/core#9299

Thanks for the feedback, @SpaceSwift. We'll pass it on!