Exploring Sidebar Categories ✨

It's been a while since we've talked about Categories and their new design in 1Password 8. There's no time like the present so let's jump in and revisit this! 🤿

TLDR: We are experimenting with customization features to enable you to add Categories to the sidebar. 🤘

It's great to see those newly designed category icons shine on the sidebar. 😍 And from the many threads in this forum, I think this will make a lot of you quite happy. 🤗

1P_Mitch has been playing with this idea for a while and created a branch to test with. I've been playing with it for an hour now and it's a good experience.

The way it works is the item list continues to sport the categories filter alongside the sort options so you can continue to quickly narrow your list of items by item type when viewing a specific vault, account, or tag. Keeping a consistent experience with the current design was important to me as I really loved the new approach. When a category is selected from the sidebar, the Categories filter is replaced with a simple title to keep things neat and tidy. It's feels really natural.

This is still an experiment so I'm not sure where things will land or when/if this will ship, but If all goes well with this experiment you will be able to try this yourself in an upcoming beta.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Please make some noise if this feature sings to your heart and you want it in the next beta. 🙂

Thank you! 🤗

++dave;
1Password Founder