First Impressions

Hi @thatsnomoon, thanks for taking the time to detail these requests. We appreciate it!

To keep things tidy, I'll offer my responses here to each individual ask. 👍

Downloaded the latest beta today- all in all runs pretty smooth.

That's great! Knowing that things are basically working as they should (including appropriate memory usage) is helpful for us indeed. And it's always good to hear you're having an overall good experience with the app.

Definitely need to bring back the Categories in the left pane similar to version 7. The drop-down to access the categories is just not a good user experience.

We'll take note of this! Do you have any thoughts on what's better about the left pane vs. the dropdown? Does the dropdown create any kind of problem (or conversely, does the left pane solve one) for you?

I'd also like to put in a couple of requests for local vaults

Also noted! We've been hearing this. I'm not sure if you know about this already, but there's a possibility that self-hosting will be an option for 1Password 8. If you'd like to see that option come to fruition, and want to provide some input about it, here's a survey we're running to gauge customer interest: https://survey.1password.com/self-host/

and a setting to easily access a password generator both within the app and the browser

For sure. Right now in 1Password for your browser it takes two clicks to get there, but this app is under continual improvement - we'd like to surface the password generator more there, so there will likely be changes ahead.

And I'll have to check on what our plans are for the password generator in the desktop app, but hope to have more for you on that.

I hope this is helpful. Thanks again for the great feedback! 😃

ref: dev/projects/customer-feature-requests/#865