Concerns About 1P 8 for Mac from a Web and Software Developer

I’m going to disagree with the hate on Electron. I am not happy about some of the missing features that I’ve seen in the ~20 minutes that I’ve been using 1Password 8 for Mac, and the onboarding experience was one of the least pleasant 1Password onboarding experiences that I’ve had, but I don’t see that as a problem specific to Electron.

I will say that I want 1Password to be able to bring features to all versions relatively quickly, and if Electron makes that easier, so much the better. I don’t recall what it was, but there was a feature that I was looking at available on the web that made no sense to be missing from 1Password for the Mac.

There are a few things that I would suggest:

• Hit Command minus (⌘-) and reduce the default font size. That made things a bit nicer on my 13" M1 Air. To the 1Password team: ideally, you should disable font resizing, but have font spacing / sizing UI defaults available (e.g., compact, normal, etc.).
• Restore Command 0 as the “all accounts” view.
• Bring back the “all vaults” inclusion filter at the 1Password application level. Do not make me configure this on each browser. Ideally, when the browser extension is in “sync” mode, all options should be delegated to the application.
• Improve the onboarding experience when you have multiple ~vaults~ accounts.
• Do not have the full application open with Command backslash; like @alexcist I interact through 1Password 99% of the time through mini (most of my accounts are created and passwords set already) and I already have two other programs sitting on the spacebar (Command space is spotlight; Option space is Alfred). I want Quick Access to be at Command backslash.
• Quick Access shouldn’t be a blank slate. It needs to be context aware, and ideally give me suggestions the way that mini did. You say it was a “lost direction”, but some of us find it extremely useful. Quick Access could be that, but it should be suggesting something relative to the context I’m in. It would be even better if it could be more context aware than mini and see what application you’re in (it would be so great to be able to have mini suggest application-specific passwords the way that iOS password integration has enabled).

I’m sure I’m going to run into things that are going to annoy me more, but I want feature parity between 1Password CLI, 1Password for Mac, 1Password for Web, and if it takes a Rust backend with Electron to do that…so be it. But please don’t lose sight of the features that customers love. The less time I am in 1Password the application, the better, because then it’s doing its job and I just don’t have to think.