A few suggestions for improvement

scrano
scrano
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Hi, recently I've been considering certain scenarios with which 1Password might be able to really improve, and I've come up with a list of suggestions, which I hope that you can not only see the value in implementing, but also choose to implement them in a very soon to be released update.

Recently I've noticed that certain sites and applications have very particular stipulations on creating passwords for their sites or services, like some will insist that you must include a letter which is in a different case such as usually prompting for an upper case letter. Some of these places will also insist that there are certain other things that you can not do, such as using things such as special characters in a password (things like #%*, and so on), and some will insist that you do include at least one of those characters, so it's a little bit crazy, but it had me thinking about how life can be made easier by using something like 1Password.

As a further sidenote to all of this, I recently downloaded another password generation and storing app from the App Store, simply because it was free for a short period of time, and some of the reviews suggested that it was better than 1Password because it allowed for more flexibility, which I don't think is even close to the case, but it did have some nice features that I'd like to see you add to your app, which would take it to a level that's unmatched.

The first is that they used a slider within their app to allow you to generate a password which was either more or less complex depending on what you needed, which was a great feature, but like your app, they didn't allow you to select special parameters for the creation of a random password, like a check box thar specified that the password that you generated had to contain a letter of a different case, or either had to contain what was deemed as a special character, or not.

With this in mind, if you could add a slider to your random password generation algorithm, so depending on how far along you move the slider, the more complex the password becomes, and you can choose to make sure that the password created contains either or both of a different case letter, and/or a special character, or sometimes no special character, through the use of check boxes, then this would really make 1Password a killer app, that is head and shoulders above all others.

This other app that I've recently used allowed you to use the inbuilt browser to download and then use an icon to attach to password entry that you've created, especially handy if they didn't have it in their own database as yet, which was extremely handy, and helps with identifying the login information that you're looking for much more quickly.

They also have graphical templates which you can choose to attach to each of your password entries, which helped offer a basic graphical representation of what you're card should look like, based on the information that you've entered within the key entry fields, regardless of whether it's a bank card, a license, a social security/centerlink card, or whatever it was that you needed.

I found this feature to be extremely effective and helpful.

They also have a feature integrated into their app which allows for you to take a picture of the card that you want to capture details for, and it also asked if you would like to to take a photo to capture the information on the back of the card as well, which you could then choose to tag to an entry, which was extremely helpful.

Some of the things that I've mentioned above I thought that I would've already had access to, like the graphical representation of information entered about things like bank cards, simply because I've previously purchased the pro features for 1Password, which I can confirm by looking in the settings area, but I still don't have any of these features at all, which I'm not sure if it's a glitch/bug within the app which isn't fully recognising that I've purchased the pro features, and hasn't unlocked them at all, or simply that they just don't exist for some reason?

If it is an error within the app, then how do I go about getting it to completely recognise that I've purchased the pro features, and unlock them all, and not just tell me that I have within the settings area, but seemingly not adding any real "pro" features?

Anyways it would be awesome if you could add some, or all of what I've mentioned above, and I'd be happy to work with you on the development of integrating any of these features, because it'd be a win for your product, and a win for your long time faithful users.

I love 1Password, and heavily rely upon it, and i just really want to see it reach its full potential.

Thanks in advance

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