Signing up for 1PW Membership - will I also have a standalone vault with Smart Folders?

Hi Superfandominatrix

I am so sorry for the incredibly delayed response here. I understand your concern about having to re-build the search each time, particularly for more complex searches. We don't have this yet, but we do have some ideas for 1Password 8 which may help here. Fingers crossed.

Final question, is it possible to export the tagging structure out of 1PW like in a json file?

Tags exist as part of the metadata for each item, rather than having their own separate definition. The 1Password app builds out the tags structure that it shows in the sidebar by reading the metadata on your items. As such there isn't any structure to export to JSON. If you were to export your items to a 1PIF that would contain the (per-item) tag-related metadata in a JSON-like format.

would it possible to screenshot the search criteria options for the Tag field in 1pw membership version?

With 1Password 7 it isn't different from what you've posted. The search options for tags are the same regardless of membership/standalone. 1Password 8, which is currently in Early Access for Mac, has an entirely different search function. It doesn't have the advanced search section like v7 does, at least not yet.

Ben