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mfisher911
3 years agoOccasional Contributor
Feature Request: Search in Archives
When I intentionally choose the Archive folder in 1Password, I would like the search bar to perform a search that is scoped to within the Archive folder.
I appreciate that the Archive folder shoul...
Former Member
2 years agoHi, I'd like to voice another vote for this. Having an archive is great. But having no way to search that archive, simply makes it a black hole. As such, it is really no better than simply deleting items. When you have a dozen archive items, then sure, your "archive" feature works. But if you have 100 (or more), then it serves no purpose other than hiding (effectively deleting) items.
I think of it this way. If I know I am never going to use an item again, then I will delete it. But there are other items that I really don't need now, and maybe I'll never need them, BUT I need to know that I can find them if I have to. That is what an archive is for. The fundamental key to an archive is being able to find things!!!
Another improvement to archive functionality: I try hard to tag my items intelligently to help me organize. If I look at items in the archive, I see that the tags remain. But there is no way to display them organized by tag. It would be nice to see the archive organized by tag.
I tried out the "collections" suggestion. It is better than your existing archive functionality. It is a way to get searching AND tags. But it is less seamless than I would like. I created an "Archive" vault and moved my archive items there. Then I created a "Default" collection that doesn't include the Archive vault and an Archive collection that only contains the Archive vault. This works well for normally hiding archive items while still giving me a way to search and view them organized. Maybe 1pw should consider implementing "archive" as nothing more than a special collection. So when I archive an item, it simply moves it to a special vault, and that vault is not searched or seen unless I specifically ask for it.
Thanks
Dave