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Former Member
3 years ago

Quality of life suggestions for 1Password 8

Hi,

I'm using 1PW for almost five years now and felt like 1Password 7 was great. 1Password 8 brings some awesome new features to the table. However, there are some quality of life issues with version 8 that make me go back and forth between "now downgrade to 7 already" and "you can live with this". I'd like to contribute with some (in my opinion easy to implement) UI/UX suggestions:

  1. Quick Access shortcuts: The "Copy One-Time Password" shortcut should already work without pressing "arrow-right" (more actions) on the selected item. Copying username and password already works there. This is simple, does not need any visible UI change and saves the user from moving their right hand to the arrow keys and back.
  2. Main window search bar: When typing a term into the search bar of the main window, 1Password 7 used to filter the main list of items. This was the perfect way to find the item you are looking for. 1Password 8 only has an overlay with suggestions, but keeps the main list as is. Once you select an item from the suggestion, the search bar even empties. You need to type your search term again if you haven't found the correct one on first try. Pretty please bring back the filter of the main list.
  3. Quick Access auto-selection: Pressing the Quick Access keyboard shortcut in an app that is not my browser used to show a selection of items that have the app's URL (e.g. app://com.microsoft.VSCode) in their websites list. 1Password 7 handles this perfectly. 1Password 8 doesn't. Version 8 only does this in my browser - the place I need it the least because I use the browser extension to fill out forms.
  4. Quick Access items: If there are fields other than username, password and one-time password, these could also be displayed in the “more actions” menu. Maybe I have a form field or something stored in an additional field. I don’t want to be forced to open the main window to fetch that. If I have named the field properly, it could easily be copied from the quick access.

Aside from that, I still love it and have adjusted mostly to version 8. These changes seem very simple but would dramatically improve the quality of life for me as an end user.

1Password Version: 8.9.8
Extension Version: 2.4.1
OS Version: macOS 13.0.1
Browser:_ Safari 16.1

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