Easy two-way linking of related items (suggestion)

asrogers

Thank you for your continued feedback regarding related items. Bidirectional linking of items is something that our product team continues to track but I don't have any announcements to share. We tend to keep new features pretty close to the chest until it's time to release them. When, and if, this feature is released you'll see it mentioned in our release notes: 1Password Releases

what are the use cases for one way links? ( it seems that being able to see the link in only one directions can actually be confusing so that you cannot tell if something is linked.

Not all users will necessarily want links to be bidirectional and the current implementation allows you the choice of whether to link an item only in one direction or from each direction (manually). Personally, I'd love to see bidirectional linking of items since that fits my personal use case and I'll keep advocating for this internally.

On a technical level, 1Password tends to be pretty conservative when it comes to the editing of items and we want users to know and directly choose when items are edited. When you add a related item to an item, 1Password edits that item to add metadata that is stored inside of that item itself. The item being linked to is not changed or edited in anyway so other metadata like the Last edited value is preserved. Bidirectional linking would require that 1Password edit both items to add the required metadata to each item and that certainly can be done but it does require more processing and the process would need to be made clear to the user.

I hope that sheds some light on the considerations involved. 🙂

-Dave

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