First Impressions

Thanks, @thatsnomoon. Really appreciate your perspective here! We'll incorporate this feedback into our internal discussions as development continues.

Oh, one quick thing:

and -perhaps more importantly- the ability to have a local copy of the database because I'm quirky and like redundancy.

Absolutely! I get this completely. When it comes to something like a password manager - which necessarily involves putting a lot of valuable (and possibly irreplaceable, should it be lost) information in one place, redundancy is really important.

As it stands, the way 1Password deals with this is to keep a copy in our cloud servers, as well as a copy of your database on every device where you are currently signed into the 1Password app. So for example, if you have a 1Password subscription, and have installed the app and signed in on a desktop, laptop computer, and an iPhone, then you have four copies of your database: one we maintain*, and one on each device. Just in case that's helpful to know! 😃

*(There are actually redundancies built into this, too)

I wouldn't want to use a service where there was only one copy of my data, and that copy was in the cloud and not on my device. Fortunately, that's not what we're doing. 👍

1P_PeterG Thanks for taking the time to respond

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?

Actually, a couple of reasons. First- where it is placed now makes it seem to me to be "in the way", like in the middle of a workspace. Categories on the left allow for a glance off to the side where all the options are listed and I can just click whichever I want.
Second- and less importantly- Even though this is a Windows beta I guess I'm a Mac snob and that's what I think is more aesthetically pleasing (Mac looking) in addition to the functionality.

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/

I'm sure a lot of folks would jump on this. For me, I'm not really into the self hosting- I subscribe to you guys so you can do the heavy lifting. I just would like an offline vault for rare work instances with passwords needing to stay local and -perhaps more importantly- the ability to have a local copy of the database because I'm quirky and like redundancy.

Thanks again for the great product and customer support.

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