Please! Bring Back! the 'Item List Layout: TOP' view!

@ghostdog: Thanks for getting in touch. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but we don't have any plans to continue maintaining multiple UIs in 1Password. Apart from you and I, very few people liked or even used the top view since 1Password 3 introduced the first iteration of the layout we have today. We heard from about a half dozen others since 1Password 7 launched over a year ago who similarly preferred the top view, but given the lack of interest since then (and, frankly, in the past decade), it was best for us to drop it, especially since it was increasingly missing support for newer features like Watchtower, vaults, accounts, and a lot of other things I'm forgetting off the top of my head, because it's been so long since the top view was the default, or used widely.

Regarding the periodic table reference, that's a good observation! I think a lot of us would see that as a positive though; some of us even have tee shirts with the Periodic Table. :lol: I guess I'd be curious why you don't use the Rich Icons feature at all, since that makes it easy to find the item you want at a glance. The "initials" default icons are not quite as useful in that regard, but they're easier to parse than static icons like the old default:

But overwhelmingly 1Password users have mostly Logins, so having them all use the exact same icon, for literally hundreds of items, has become untenable. So, while Rich Icons are preferred when available (if you haven't set a custom icon), when not, 1Password generates coloured icons with a couple letters based on the title, so users can tell them apart. That's been really successful, so I don't anticipate us changing that, other than to iterate on the design over time. I'm sorry that might not be what you're hoping to hear, but it's made 1Password much more usable for people with a lot of Logins -- which is what happens to all 1Password users over time; we don't generally get fewer. :)

@ghostdog: I hadn't heard it put that way. Thank you. I guess the question I have is, what is the benefit you derive from being able to "see stuff in one shot like a excel spreadsheet"?

I'm not trying to make this into a competition, but I have many more than 1000 items in 1Password. That's actually kind of embarrassing to admit publicly, because I think a fair number of those need to be archived and/or deleted. :lol:

I like the example of iTunes, but not in the way you're probably hoping: I really find it tedious to try to scroll through a text-only list of my music like that. I probably have way too much music... Thank heaven for search!

Anyway, I will bring your comments up with the team. I don't see us changing 1Password to be more like iTunes in this regard, as we just haven't had may requests at all to move back to something more like the old top view, but we want to keep as many perspectives in mind as we continue to iterate on the design over time. :)

Likewise, thanks for taking the time to share your perspective! :chuffed:

We don't have any updates to share about this at the moment @spacetime, sorry.