Custom categories [feature request under consideration]

Hi there,
I too am a new user who has migrated from Splash ID, and would like to add my request for the ability to create new categories. Its being sorely missed!

Hi sjk - please add me to the list - just purchased 1password - this should be a basic feature and not sure how I missed that it does not exist - disappointed also about the limited categories available - please add this feature in the next update to be released hopefully soon. Thx.

I'd like to add my voice to this thread. I have been a user of SplashID for years, but have grown tired of their clunky interface and constant push for subscription revenue. At first look, I found 1Password more appealing. I bought 1Password for Mac 4, but I was surprised and disappointed to find that it didn't support custom categories or record types. I find that essential. To me, it seems like that should have been a day-one feature, because with that one capability a user can extend the product to uses that were not anticipated by the developers in the form of built-in special-purpose categories. It would also relieve pressure on the developers, who wouldn't need to specially code every use-case.

Recently, when version 5 came out, I looked at it again, hoping that it would have custom categories, but alas it does not. That one missing feature has kept me from switching. 1Password looks very pretty, but this key piece of functionality is more important to me than the way it looks.

Please add this capability as soon as you can. Until then, I am back to using SplashID.

I too would like to see a custom category option. I'm currently using mSecure that allowed me to customize categories. Some of the information I want to add to 1Password wouldn't work with the current categories. Please add this feature.

Searching thru the several discussions forum I've found many requests of such implementation.
And many of these come from 2010!
I wonder how this feature was still to be implemented, since I don't see it as so complicated.
Many other similar product do this.
This feature in some post reply seems possible for the future, but when?
In the meanwhile why don't make richer the exixting set of categories?
For example the "SIM" and "Cellular phone" data were welcome.
Thanks

sg

This is lame. It's just so blatantly obvious to allow users to create their own categories. Everyone has their own way of organizing things. Examples: websites, computers, keys, education, health, florists, hotels, networks, airlines, music, news, transportation, utilities...

with 850 passwords not even sure how I could migrate from this imported csv. I see now it's easier for me to just keep current method - flat text file encrypted using bcrypt which uses 448 bit blowfish, then decrypting and just grepping for what I need.

Also what gives, I can't find any technical docs on how security is implemented with 1pass

When I left behind my Palm and WebConfidential, it was hard seeing how to do some things after I imported my records to 1Password years ago and started using it. More and more the Category issues make me want more from this program suite.

I have a strong fundamental suggestion in regards to implementation of requests for new Categories. If one thinks about core database design, your current system is like categories are separate tables in the 1Password database. If however you consider a fundamental design change, make category an attribute (column) of a password item. Make templates a much stronger feature. Strongly associate a template with a category. Thus, by changing a item's category the user is changing the template used to display and edit the record, but this change process would have to have more than a simple category selection; it might involve a prompt to allowing individual column mapping from one category's fields to another's. You might even be able to make it possible for the same record to have different views (like FIleMaker layouts), depending on whether you are looking for a serial number for a Software License or a login password for that software's Login.

So, here is what I have a problem with in the software engineer's choices for Categories in 1Password:

• Some categories are going nearly always carry 1 record. How many driver's licenses or social security numbers does the typical 1Password user need to store?
• Some categories are never going to be used. I do not expect to use Outdoor Licenses.
• Several categories almost always are linked. I have both a driver license and a state DMV login to manage that. I have a Rewards account and a web account to manage that. I have licensed software and a web site I login to for support.
• I never quite understood why there was both a Memberships and a Reward Programs category; I am a member of a rewards program…and then there is that ad slogan membership has its rewards...
• Sometimes an entry lands in the wrong category and it is not simple to just change it AND retain password history.

There are other issues unrelated to categories, like empty single items from Trash instead of only all, and sort column saved with each folder/smart folder (like the Finder), but I will stop here.

Please add my vote for custom categories. I'd like to add product serial numbers, for example, rather than have them all stored within my notes.

Another mSecure user here who wanted to switch over to 1Password. After installing, I realized you had no custom categories (stunning, for me, in a modern-day password app) and had to pull back to mSecure.

Let me know when you implement this and I'll give 1P another shot. Or who knows? Maybe mSecure will catch up with browser integration by then.