Request Related To Archived Items

I've found myself struggling with this, too. As an example, this morning, I needed to refer to an old item that'd been archived, but since I didn't know what the title was (meaning the Find feature couldn't help), the only way to find it was to scroll through the list tediously looking at every item with enough care so as to not overlook my target. I have a thousand-plus items in the Archive, so needless to say, it was painful.

I also have the seemingly common problem of having moved a bunch of items from a number of archival vaults created pre-1P8 into the Archive, and I'm now grappling with how to remove the original vaults. There may be a workaround involving using labels and shuffling things around, but it's going to be annoying enough a process that I just haven't felt like dealing with it yet.

Having the ability to do a full search in the archive would solve all my problems. Since archived items are rarely needed by definition, I think it's fine if this is in-app only (no browser or QuickAccess support). Perhaps the best way to support this is by adding search syntax for filtering Archive items. This morning, my problem would have been solved if I could have done a search something like "=archived «string I know the item contains»", and my pseudo-archive problem could easily be resolved if I could do something like "=archived =vault:Foo" to find all the Archive items that belong to vault "Foo".

I suspect even the 1P product planners would like to see this latter feature. Why? When you look at a vault that is empty save for archived items, 1P8 shows something like this:

Any reasonable user would expect that button to take you to a list of the two archived items relevant to the selected vault, but instead, it dumps you in the Archive with no way to find the two items amongst the potentially thousands of items -- and you aren't given even the slightest clue what the items are; the only way you could identify them is to manually look at every item to see what vault it's in. This is the opposite of user-centric design, and is a perfect exemplification of why proper search in the Archive is necessary even though the items in there are not "active" items. I get that purpose, and I don't want Archive items showing up for autofill or in searches that don't explicitly target the Archive. But right now, the Archive in many cases fails at its sole mission in life: allowing you to reference inactive items when the need occasionally arises. It fails because if you can't find the item, you can't reference it.