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couet · November 2013

Vaults are nice, they allow to clearly separate the various IDs, accounts, logins etc .. related to various topics. At least that's how I understand them.
I have now three vaults. It works well. The only thing I find annoying is the fact that when "Vault A" is your current vault and you need to access a password in "Vault B" via command\, the password in "Vault B" cannot be find. You have to change the current Vault to "Vault B" to find it...
That's ok, but when you do that several times per day that's really annoying. May be I am misusing vaults ...

Jasper · November 2013

Hey @couet,

Vaults are nice, they allow to clearly separate the various IDs, accounts, logins etc .. related to various topics. At least that's how I understand them. I have now three vaults. ... May be I am misusing vaults ...

First of all, just some general ideas of how one might use multiple/shared vaults. An example from the 1Password page on the AgileBits website:

It also suggests these uses:

Business logins with your co-workers
Personal information with your spouse
Encryption keys with your dev team
Estate planning with your loved one

Those are just a few suggestions. I don't think you could be misusing vaults, you can do whatever works best for you!

You have to change the current Vault to "Vault B" to find it... That's ok, but when you do that several times per day that's really annoying.

Unfortunately there's no way around that currently. Though if you look through some other discussions on this forum, AgileBits is looking into several improvements to make using multiple vaults simpler and quicker:

So hopefully with a few changes in the future, multiple vaults will be working better for you!

Hope that helps! :D

couet · November 2013

Many thanks for your input. I will look at the suggested improvements for the future.
Thanks again :-)

Jasper · November 2013

You're welcome!

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