Experiment #3 - Nearby Items

It's really interesting to read about what others think. I want to reply to some things that Maubro mentioned, because they talked about use cases which I also talked about before. Of course I can only speak about my personal experience.

If I read it’s handy to have my PIN code directly at hand when I’m at the ATM, my first thought is, “Are there really so many people who can’t remember their PIN code. How often is this feature really going to be used?”

I rarely need to get cash at an ATM, maybe once or twice a year, which is why I never know my PIN code. On top of that, I have more than a dozen cards for various reasons and each of them has a different PIN code. No chance that I'll remember all of them. For the feature to be actually helpful though I would need to be able to enter several locations for my most-visited ATMs instead of just one.

Insurance card at the medical doctor’s office. How often in a year do you really need to show that? Is it so much work to do a search in 1password when you need this information?

I live in Germany and how it works here is that prescriptions can be saved on your insurance card and you may need to enter the PIN two times, once at the doctor's office and again at the pharmacy. I rarely need to visit the doctor but when I do I usually get some kind of medication and never know my PIN code.

Passwords per location, why? 1Password automatically fills in the password for me wherever I am. I don’t need to search for it and then fill it in, making it convenient that my office passwords are visible first when I’m there.

I work three jobs, one is remote first and I visit the office about once every two months, the other one has me visiting the office about once a month. For both jobs there are physical keys to enter the building but whenever I need to access something else, I need to retrieve keys from a key safe locked with a code (one 8-digit alphanumerical, one 6-digit numerical). On top of that, there are shared company vehicles that, although they are unlocked with my smartphone, require a PIN-code before I can start driving. I am already using the location-based feature for these occasions and it's really handy.

Maybe it’s a cultural difference why I don’t see it. That could be. In Amsterdam, we hardly do anything with cash anymore (read here we rarely go to the ATM and know PIN codes by heart), here we maybe go to a doctor less annually, post offices here have almost all disappeared, smart locks for houses are available, but in general we just lend the physical key directly.

Welcome to Germany, where everything is analogue-first :D just joking (well, maybe not so much), but actually I've only encountered a smart lock in Germany once and even then it was PIN-code based. Unfortunately, we also heavily rely on cash payments and the whole health-sector is just gradually being digitised (we only dropped paper prescriptions at the end of 2023 and the migration is still not completely finished).