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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
Post deleted user error.
EDIT
The user error was:
After updating to latest nightly build (# 80500126), only "Logins" showed in the Sidebar under Categories.
I poked around a bit, and then Cargories disappeared completely from Sidebar.
Then I found in Prefs > Appearance that the Categories in Sidebar option was unchecked.....checked it and all was well again.
Don't know if anything changed in the latest nightly to cause this hiccup?we added a preference and defaulted it to off
Good choice! Enabled categories in the sidebar again. The only thing that is missing now is the item count behind every category. ;)Never had a single bigger issue with one of the nightlies. They are stable as releases. I'm running these since months, and the biggest issue I have with these is having to enter the master password after each daily update+restart.
You've made terrific progress on this app. Nice work.
- dteare
Glad to hear all your excitement! Happy we were able to strike a chord with y’all. 🤗
Be careful with those nightlies though. They’re built automatically with zero manual testing. I recommend hanging back on the beta channel unless you really love being on the bleeding edge. For example all your categories are about to disappear tonight as we added a preference and defaulted it to off.
++dave;
Switched to Nightly just to test...it looks so GOOD! I love the new icons. Totally thought this would never happen. Now, with the Zoom level lowered and the app's window size modified appropriately, it's not quite like having the old macOS mini, but it's similar! Makes the program feel more agile and I can finally see the appeal of having a keyboard shortcut to open the full app.
+1 and a big LIKE from my side - I opened the thread and herewith I approve the design lol - serious - hope you can implement this, looks good
All looks great and the SSH key support looks brilliant! Can't wait to try that out.
How do I switch to the Nightly channel?
Yesterday it wasn't in the Nightly build. But today it is there. :)
