Experiment #3 - Nearby Items

I think it’d be useful if we could add common locations to our profile/settings (home, work, gym, supermarket, vet, doctor, etc) so we can quickly assign saved locations to any item (or select multiple items and add a location). I think it’d be useful to be able to add multiple locations, e.g. supermarkets, second office location, etc.

Favourite locations should have a geofence of say 25-50m so we don’t get the issue of having nearby items 1, 3, 5, etc metres away - they would all fall into the one location even if the coordinates are slightly different. I don’t think we need pinpoint accuracy for this sort of thing. That sort of range would cover most small to medium building footprints.

Other non-favourite locations may not need a geofence, but I wouldn’t think it be such an issue at places less frequently visited.

Interesting that when I search for place names or addresses, their electoral ward and district shows up rather than the actual street address.

Thanks for all the feedback so far. This is super helpful. I'm still really interested in hearing more use cases where location aware items would be useful.

XIII Thank you! Naming locations is high on our own list for this feature, it was likely the first thing I was bugging our ever-so-talented devs for when they were working up proof of concepts of adding locations to items.

Regarding the mismatch of distances, I'll double check but I think this may due to GPS having an at best 5m radius(?) of accuracy, rather than a pin-point accuracy and you'll get a bit of a 'estimation' to the location.

I want that even more now that I see that all items at the same location have random distances in 1Password.

I have added six items at home, but they are listed as 3, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 12m away…

I’d like to assign names to locations, which could then be displayed instead of coordinates (when editing an item).

Examples of names: “Home”, “Work”, “School”, “Gym”, etc.

Thanks a lot for the great feedback/ideas @joernarne.

This is one of those moments where I'm so grateful we've got folks like your good self sharing ideas that we probably wouldn't have thought of as this goes in the opposite direction to how and where the team were thinking items should show up.

That said, it sounds like you kind of want 1Password to have a bit more location awareness in general. Your feedback's giving me some interesting ideas that I'm excited to explore more with the team.

Cheers again Joe!

Yeah, favourites sort of work for that. But when I'm at home at my laptop I usually need other favourites than while I'm outside.

It's not a desperately needed feature. It just came to my mind thinking about items I need vs. Items I don't need depending on the location I am at.

I think, favorites are for that specific use case if I'm not home.

@joernarne that's interesting. So rather than showing up when you are at a location, you want to see them when you are not at a set list of locations? I'll log that feedback and discuss it with the team. Could you accomplish this now with Favorites? We have also been talking about allowing multiple locations for a single item. That way if you have a gym pass (for example) and the gym has multiple locations you'd see it at any of the locations you set.

I would like to suggest adding a home address / office address and then select items that are shown if you are not at home or in the office.

There are some items like e.g. banking card pins that you primarily use during travels but that are not bound to specific locations.

This way you wouldn't need to look for the items at let's say the checkout at the supermarket.