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pgf
1 hour agoNew Member
The "markdown butchers notes" bug is a real turnoff
I'm a prospective user, still in my trial period. I'm transitioning from a homegrown password management system (based originally on pass/gpg), with about 500 login records and notes.
It was bad enough that the premiere password manager doesn't actually make it easy to import anything that doesn't fit in simple CSV, but I made it through that over a few days, and managed to create a script that generates 1PIF, and used "op item create" to get all of my data into my vault. Okay, so major points off for usability, but that's now a solved problem. (For me. But not for the next customer, of course.)
But after getting all my data in place, I started trying to actually use it. One of the first things I did was move my TOTP secrets onto 1Password. And I noticed, while updating a notes field with backup codes, that my old backup codes, which should have been in my notes, were missing!
Oh -- wait. No they weren't. They just weren't *visible*, unless I edited the record. Huh. Did some googling and... wow. I'm truly shocked that this bug has been around as long as it has been, with no fix in sight. At least, not for the web app. The linux desktop doesn't seem to have the problem, at least not in the same way. It's simply a bug that 1Password apparently doesn't care about. And all it would take is the ability to disable markdown in notes fields.
So, since I have a lot of notes, with a lot of formatting, and easily found 3 records with truncated text (woe be unto him that likes to delineate with rows of dashes, I guess), I deleted all of my records (carefully avoiding the ones with fresh secrets in them), and reimported after changing my tooling to inject a ``` line into each note, to get markdown to treat the rest as literal text. Again, problem solved, sort of.
Would it be too much to ask for it least to be mentioned somewhere that the notes text will be interpreted as markdown? I've seen no mention of that in anything I've read. Other than bug reports, of course... going back four years.
If this is the kind of attention to detail I can expect for my $70 / year, I have to say I'm rethinking my decision.
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