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Search function needs improvement!
I have roundabout 200 entries in 1Password. I searched for "example.com" and expected to get exactly two results. Instead I get 47 results. From those 47 results, only two are relevant.
When I searched for "example.com", I expect it to find only entries that either have "example.com" as part of their name, their email address or their web address, (or any other field). I have no idea why 1Password thinks that these other 45 results where relevant. But none of them had "example.com" in any of their fields. That makes the search function quite useless for me.
KeePass, which I used before, never made it that difficult to search and find stuff. That needs to be improved.
1Password Version: 8.6.1
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: Windows 11
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Please also add my +1 to the internal feature request regarding partial string searching. It has been very frustrating to lose that feature in v8.
ag_mike_d1Password Team
Hello @ArnaudL. Thanks for your feedback here, I've added your +1 to the internal feature request we're currently tracking.
AliH1PHi mateusbandeira, thanks for the feedback and for describing your use case - it's greatly appreciated! I'll be sure to pass this along to our team.
Ali
IDEA-I-527
Just updated from 1Password 7 to 8. Leaving my feedback here too:
I have a lot of server credentials for my job. They all look like this:
I was used to search by the last 3 or 4 numbers of the URL (if I wanted g41p-a-00000904, I would type only "904"). The search on 1Password 8 doesn't work for this use case.
I need to use that "find" feature, but that feels a bit odd. I think these two features should be merged into one. For example, it isn't possible to use the "find" feature with the shortcut ctrl + shift + space.
1P_PeterGCommunity Manager
Understood, @daniel1 - and thank you for taking the time to provide this perspective. I have passed it on to the appropriate team. And we'll keep the improvements and customizations coming!
1P_PeterG I haven't used 1Pv7, so I can't compare. My reference is KeePass, since that's what I used for years. (And I'm still kinda evaluating 1P at this point.)
I think I found the thread you were referring to. I do understand the effor to provide a unified search for all languages and this is causing some trouble to you. Since ctrl-alt-f is maybe a different kind of search, what I really want is a simple search-and-match for the default search experience (search bar or ctrl-f). If the implementation of a unified search experience will continue to cause some trouble to your team, please consider letting us opt out of that new search experience until it's working. This would at least make search working for everybody who does not speak Chinese, Japanese or use any of the non-latin code points.
- 1P_PeterG
Hi @daniel1, thanks for the reply!
My understanding is that
ctrl + alt + fessentially filters entries from your list (and in that way is perhaps closer to 1Password 7's search feature). The default search feature uses different rules for parsing strings and sub-strings (parts of words, basically) and also attempts to pull up the most relevant results using a number of criteria, including what you search for most often.It might eventually be possible to change those search-related shortcuts (I'll have to ask), but I just want to let you know that this is an area where we're still putting in time and effort to provide the best experience for everyone.
1P_PeterG ctrl-alt-f works as expected. What does that do different, exactly? I looked into Help > Keyboard Shortcuts, but that shortcut isn't listed there.
While I think this should be the default, I can understand that other people think differently about that. Would it be possible to allow letting me change the search bar to work like ctrl-alt-f? And also let me change the shortcut ctrl-alt-f to simply ctrl-f? The way it works right now, and knowing that I always have to use ctrl-alt-f, which is uncomfy to type, is not satisfying.
