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dteare
1Password Team
1Password TeamExploring Sidebar Categories ✨
It's been a while since we've talked about Categories and their new design in 1Password 8. There's no time like the present so let's jump in and revisit this! 🤿
TLDR: We are experimenting with customization features to enable you to add Categories to the sidebar. 🤘
It's great to see those newly designed category icons shine on the sidebar. 😍 And from the many threads in this forum, I think this will make a lot of you quite happy. 🤗
1P_Mitch has been playing with this idea for a while and created a branch to test with. I've been playing with it for an hour now and it's a good experience.
The way it works is the item list continues to sport the categories filter alongside the sort options so you can continue to quickly narrow your list of items by item type when viewing a specific vault, account, or tag. Keeping a consistent experience with the current design was important to me as I really loved the new approach. When a category is selected from the sidebar, the Categories filter is replaced with a simple title to keep things neat and tidy. It's feels really natural.
This is still an experiment so I'm not sure where things will land or when/if this will ship, but If all goes well with this experiment you will be able to try this yourself in an upcoming beta.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Please make some noise if this feature sings to your heart and you want it in the next beta. 🙂
Thank you! 🤗
++dave;
1Password Founder
Just switched from the NIGHTLY to the BETA build today and was a bit sad that the categories are back at the top. Great that the new beta came out today. :)
dteare++
- dteare
Hello rctneil. 👋 In my head I was writing up an answer that All Items should fit the bill for what you were looking for. I'm glad I read the whole thread before writing a big essay there and taking screenshots. 🙂 As for your first point, extended sidebar customization is something we've talked about internally and I could see it being a cool addition to 1Password.
Thanks for stopping by @"Chris Messina" and for the screenshots as they're super helpful. I remember learning from you to take a screenshot of everything. 🤗
We've had quite a few discussions about embracing custom layouts for different item types and you can see a glimpse of how they may look on future.1password.com. Here's a screenshot from there of an artists conception on how a House category could look.
We're still at the concept stage and there's a lot of possibilities here. I'm looking forward to being able to share more with you soon.
As for filters and auto-populating search filters, absolutely yes. Our advanced search filters work but they'd be so much more useful and enjoyable with a nice pill design with suggestions and the like. Definitely something we want to add.
++dave;
I take back my second point above. I guess just using the "All items" at the top of the sidebar suffices here!
dteare it's nice to see this kind of access to categories and would love to see you go deeper in two ways:
- Allow for custom views based on the selected category that's more appropriate to the content types. You shouldn't go completely skeuomorphic, but it would be nice to be able to view Documents, Identities, Memberships and other card-like types in grids, rather than just lists, for example, like Apple Books.¹
- It'd also be useful to access these categories as filters via shortcut keys or as autosuggested filters in the ⌘-f searchbox. I see that you can filter results using special queries like
=category:Documents, but starting a query with=category:doesn't autopopulate the list of possible categories.
Hi,
Just tried a nightly version. Really liking the categories in the sidebar, but have two points to mention. (Come on, you didn't expect anything less from me right dteare ? :-) )
Can the sidebar sections be re-orderable? Then I can drag my two accounts above categories or move tags to the top. Just allow for flexibility.
Can you add an "All Categories" option to the top of the categories list? Currently if you click multiple categories, you ahve to keep clicking back at the top left to get back to all. All should be the default i'd expect.
Thanks,
Neil- dteare
Thank you, MrC! 🤗
Tertius: It's great to hear the nightlies have been so stable for you. Hopefully we can keep it that way but no guarantees. 🙂 The trickiest situation is when there are database migrations and we need to change it. It's rather rare and can be fixed by simply deleting the database and setting things up anew, so we felt comfortable enough leaving
Nightliesas an option. Still, you can see how you'd have to really enjoy this kind of stuff to have a smile on your face while doing that. 😃DenalB: Glad you're happy! 🙌 Regarding item counts, we have a plan there. We also have a lot of plates in the air so I'm not sure when this will bubble to the top of the priority list. Soon hopefully as this is a popular request.
@mikebore: I think what tripped you up is the nightlies change super quick and features aren't always fully polished before they land there. We (purposely) merged part of the code to get the sidebar categories rolling before the settings were available (it was on a separate branch to make things easier). Anywho, it meant we needed to default this option to ON even though that wasn't our long term plan. Once we merged in the settings code we were able to change the default to what we wanted it to be.
Glad to hear y'all are enjoying the new sidebar customization. Carry on and enjoy the rest of your week. 🤗
++dave;
