Search no longer searches Notes

Hello gerhard498,

Thanks for your feedback and weighing in on this discussion regarding the search functionality of 1Password and this particular use case. I've included your feedback for the team's review.

Let us know if you need anything else.

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ag_mike_d

Could you let us know what challenges you are experiencing when searching 1Password in the browser?

A recent example: I have a Secure Note for each car, with the VIN, license plate number and other details. These are not logins, but occasionally sites require one or the other as identifier. I remember the first few letters of the license, but that doesn't help me in the browser search. I need to remember the note title and search for it, or I need to switch to the app and use "show all matching items" of the search.

I agree with the many voices that two search functions are unnecessary -- one that works properly is enough.

My suggestion is that the search should display all matches up to a given number (maybe 8?), and if there are more matches, then there is a line at the bottom that says "Show all matching items". This way I have the option to type more to narrow the search or to type Ctrl+Enter to show all matching items. But I get to see whatever is currently matching, not an arbitrary subset of that. This is also how search works across many different applications and websites.

I consider the search, as it is today, unnecessarily broken.

Hello @entheo,

Thanks for your kind reply and attention to detail here. I've passed your notes along to the team.

Let us know if you need anything further, we'll be happy to help!

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Sure! Being a product manager myself, I completely understand. In my workflow, I populate the Notes of a record with details that may not be included in the URL or name of the record that help me surface that record upon searching for it. I tend to use my password manager as a bookmark manager of sorts, so when I want to visit a particular site, I'll pop open the browser extension and search for the site I want to visit, often using shorthand or references included in the Notes field. Upon finding them, I'll use the Open and Fill option to visit the site.

I've started adjusting my workflow to include those details in the Name field, so that they're searchable, but am struggling with the backlog of hundreds of records that I imported from Lastpass where these details live in Notes.

Agree that I could open the desktop app to perform this search, it's just a change in habits for myself. Not a huge deal by any means, but I guess I just expected there would be feature parity between the desktop and Chrome extension in this instance. Thanks for your attention and for passing along my notes to the correct parties. So far I'm generally quite happy with the product, being only a week in. And I'm absolutely satisfied with the customer support and attention, so thank you!

Hello again @entheo,

Sorry for the additional question here.

As a use for similar functionality, I turn to the app rather than the the browser extension. Not because this doesn't exist in the extension, but I haven't had a need for those types of details from notes while in the browser. Do you have specific use cases where searching the contents of a Secure Note would be helpful while using 1Password in the browser? I want to be able to provide a clear picture to the Product team when forwarding these details to them. Thanks!

Sure, basically I can't search for entries based on the 'Notes' field in the records. Notes is where I would record reminders and tags for pulling up records. Lastpass allowed me to search within the contents of the Notes field, but I don't seem to be able to do that within the Chrome extension for 1Password. It's a significant detriment to the usability of the app so just trying to see if it can be addressed somehow. Thanks!

Hello @entheo,

You are not missing anything here. The Show all matching items (Ctrl + Enter) is available within the apps and not when searching in 1Password in the browser: Get to know 1Password in your browser - Search 1Password

When searching in 1Password in the browser, you are provided with a list you can scroll through, similar to the results provided in the item list after using Ctrl + Enter.

Could you let us know what challenges you are experiencing when searching 1Password in the browser? If you can provide some examples or further details about what make this experience better, I'd be happy to pass any feedback along to the Product team.

Looking forward to your reply.

Hello all!

To further this conversation, is the CTRL+Enter search behavior expected to work on the Chrome extension as well? This is my primary interface and I am unable to search within extended fields in my records from this interface. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Hi hardybird and viswiz! Thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback on the search function in 1Password 8. I've passed both of your suggestions along to our Product team.

If you have any further feedback or or questions, let us know 😄

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Just bring back the search UI you had in all previous versions of 1PW, i. e. no overlay/popup, no extra shortcut. Just search as you type and show all results in the middle column without the nees of an extra step/keyboard shortcut.
I've never seen complaints about the previously used search UI in this forum but I've seen a lot about the new one.