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senioruserfriendly
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
Can someone explain the difference between:
 
 Identities 
 Categories 
 Tags 
 Vaults 
 Collections 
 Accounts 
 
 They all seem to be ways of organizing your information.  What would be a reason one would choose one over another.   Thanks. 
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senioruserfriendly
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
Thank you. That is helpful. It is more than I need. It would be wonderful to hide all but the ones I need. I realize some may need each of these features, but it seems that more attention has been given to making the program more complex, and I am finding that 1Password has so many choices, so many versions, that it is taking more time than I would like to invest in it. I can not find basic features, which seem to appear and disappear and are in different places in browser or standalone or online. It is unclear whether I need one or all three. And since Version 8, I seem to be having more and more problems, as there are more sites where it does not work, and I have to jump through hoops. A password program should be easy-to-use, or people will stop using it. Someone in Marketing has decided you have 45 different audiences, each with different needs, and you've spread yourself too thin to be able to support it all, and I suspect none of those segments feels you've met their needs. As you add more features for these groups, you have to charge more, and the value to each that use their own set of features becomes questionable.
1Password should be a tool that is almost invisible. It should work for me. Now I feel I work for it, At one time I had a locked excel spreadsheet online, on my mac, and on my phone with website, id, and password. It was secure, and was easier/faster to use than 1pwd.
It's as if my pillow now requires instructions.