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Former Member
3 years agosorting search results in 1Password 8
I just started using 1Password 8 on both macOS and iOS.
I'm finding the search feature harder to use than before. In 1Password 7, I could type a string and realtime autocomplete filtering would na...
Former Member
3 years agoUpon further playing around with the behavior and reflection, I find the differences between the Search and Find features baffling.
1PW8 Search
* is Command-F so easy to type
* displays results in one place (little dropdown below the search box) while typing, and a different place (filters the main view to matching items) after I press Command-Enter
* displays only some (apparently a maximum of 8) results in the while-typing view
* offers no apparent control over the sort order used in the while-typing view
* offers no apparent control over the sort order used in the all-results view (after pressing Command-Enter)
* seems to apply the search string to all fields, not just the titles
1PW8 Find
* is Command-Option-F which is harder to type
* displays results in a 3rd way (as I type, but in the main view, distinct from the way the Search command does it)
* does allow me to set the sort order used for results, but only if I set that sort order before invoking the Find command; there's apparently no way to do it while looking at the results
* seems to apply the search string to only titles, not other fields
By comparison 1PW7's Find
* is Command-F which is easy to type
* displays a complete set of results, while typing, all in a single place (the main view)
* both shows the sort order used for results in a very obvious way, and has a very obvious affordance to let me change the order of the search results during/after the search
* searches titles only initially, but has an obvious affordance to "expand search to all fields"
So overall, the 1PW7 implementation works better "out of the box" (no customizations/special options set before using it, no need to distinguish different names for very similar features) and is also more powerful/customizable while using it, compared to the 2 ostensible replacement features in 1PW8.
BTW I really don't see any obvious distinction between the new names (Search and Find) and the resulting behaviors. I had to look back to the app 3 times while writing this to make sure I called them by the right names.
My overall point here is that 1PW7's Find behaved ideally in all these regards, and neither Find nor Search in 1PW8 is a full replacement for it, and the fact they're different in subtle ways which aren't obvious at all from the names (when do you/the product want me to use which of those?) further complicates the situation.