A few dumb questions immediately after installing 1Password 8 on Mac

@mikebore While something is better than nothing I agree with you that this is an underwhelming substitute to what existed in 1PW7. Like you I used the information in your screenshot above to verify that my 1PW items were synced across all my devices at a glance. I can do that again but now on the Mac there’s a lot more friction. Click. Scroll list. Select drop down entry. View item count at the bottom of the window. Wash, rinse, repeat.

There is a significant contingent of users clamoring for the return of Categories to the sidebar (at least as an option) and this is yet another reason why. And to my knowledge at least I haven’t come across anyone in this forum advocating for their removal … except AgileBits developers. It just seems like the focus is on Business customers who have more of a need for multiple vaults so displaying them so prominently in the sidebar makes sense for them. But for Individual or Families customers who likely have no need for a bunch of vaults this change is an undeniable downgrade in functionality. It takes longer and more clicks to browse (not search) to what we are looking for. And we can no longer quickly compare items counts across devices at a glance.

In 1PW7 there was a lot of back and forth over how the Suggestions feature should work in 1PW Mini. Fortunately AgileBits listened to the various camps and their use cases and implemented a preference that accommodated them all very nicely. I’m holding out hope that they will do the same with 1PW8 and provide a similar preference that will accommodate both the “vault-centric” and “categories-centric” camps in their entire customer base.