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Can't search within Secure Note
I am using 8.9.11. I, too, am frustrated by the lack of ability of search within a Secure Note, a feature that existed in previous versions of 1Password. I open "edit" of the secure note and then hit Command F. The search window opens with the vault information already entered (e.g., ==vault:Personal). If I add my search term to that string, the results I get are a list of places within the vault that contain the term. I get the same results if I delete that string and type in my search term by itself. But I cannot search within the open Secure Note for the occurrence of that term. It seems from other posts here that this feature has been removed. If so, add my vote to returning it as soon as possible. If this feature is still available, can you tell me how to accomplish it? Thanks.
1Password Version: 8.9.11
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OS Version: Ventura 13.1
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Referrer: forum-search:https://1password.community/search?Search=search%20inside%20secure%20notes
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Just upgraded to version 8 and found out too late that the application has been crippled by removing the ability to search within a note. Is there a workaround? If not, is there a way to go back to a version that didn't have this crippling limitation? If not, can someone suggest an alternative application whose developers don't remove critical functionality from new releases? [Found a not-very-good workaround: Sign in to browser version of 1password, and use the browser's search capability.]
- 1P_Tommy
Moderator
Noted @joesap and thank you for letting us know this matters to you. I've passed along your comments to the products team.
ref: PB-34463973
Please add my vote. I need to be able to find text in secure notes. It's very frustrating that this basic feature is still missing in 1Password 8 as I use it all the time.
Please bring back search of secure notes!
This is not the first time that search of secure notes was broken, as documented here over 5 years ago, and subsequently resolved:
https://1password.community/discussion/93553/command-f-control-f-edit-find-find-find-command-find-feature-find-text-search-not-workingI also strongly believe that the secure notes should be searchable without switching to Edit mode, as documented here: https://1password.community/discussion/117312/regression-find-command-find-text-search-not-working
Please we need this so badly, can't move off of 1password 7 until this is an option. It's frustrating because you can search within notes on the 1password 8 iOS app, so it seems like it should be possible in macOS as well
- 1P_Dave
@Vog
Thank you for the feedback, I've passed it along to our Product team as well.
-Dave
ref: PB-34258256
- 1P_Tommy
@wielp
No. None that I am immediately aware of at this time. Sorry. I can and would be happy to let the team know you would like to see searching within Secure Notes.
ref: PB-32825749
- 1P_Dave
@karenalenore
Let us know if there's any other assistance that we can provide! I'd also encourage you to reach out to your account manager or our business team at business@1password.com to discuss this in more detail.
PS. I still thing notes should be searchable regardless of this use case. Its a intuitively expected feature that is missing.
I agree that this would be useful to many and I've forwarded your feedback to our product team. 🙂
-Dave
ref: PB-32534517
