Please bring back Folders

Hi @kavaa,

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts here! It sounds like you have quite the setup in 1Password currently.

Unfortunately, I can’t make promises on unreleased features, but I’m happy to pass your feedback along to our team.

In the meantime, I do encourage you to take a look at Tags. I know it’s not what you’re used to, but I find that tags are much more powerful than folders. Being able to add multiple tags to an item means you could essentially recreate your folder structure with tags. Also, tags are a lot more flexible: while an item could be in only one folder, there are no limit to the number of tags you can add. I think this makes items a lot easier to find, particularly in a large database.

Of course, I’ve been a fan of tags for a long time, so I’m a bit biased. But I do hope that they can be useful for you too!

Hi @kavaa,

Everyone organizes things differently, and I certainly don’t want to try and impose my sensibilities on you, but I’m wondering if organizing some of those items into separate vaults might help? I can’t say what is logical to you and your team, but I can understand how your current structure could become a little bit overwhelming.

Please don't take this as any indication of the development direction. Your votes have all been passed along to the devs! But I did want to offer a "defense of tags", or — more precisely — just explain how I use them in case it helps anyone. :)

The biggest tip a lot of folks don't know: once you create a tag by adding it to one item, it will appear in the sidebar. Then you can select all the items you wish to have that tag and drag them onto the tag in the sidebar.

You can't exactly have a hierarchy of tags, but you can apply as many tags as you want to a single item. That's not possible with folders. An item can only be in one folder at a time. For my usage, I've found tags to be a lot more flexible than the restrictive, linear hierarchy folders require.

For example, I have tags for:

• bills
• cc
• health
• auto
• insurance

This allows for all sorts of different combinations:

• If I want to see all my bills, I can look at the items tagged bills.
• If I want to know which bills are paid with a recurring credit card payment, I can look at all the items tagged bills and cc.
• If I want to see things like my Membership item for my health insurance, the Login for their website, and also my Membership item for my separate vision insurance, I can look at health items.
• If i just want to see the health insurance stuff (not Logins) I can do that.
• I can also view auto insurance. (I'm sure you can guess what that's about.) Or simply insurance which will include both health and auto.

It's super flexible and makes my life a lot easier. I tried to use folders a long time ago but went with tags because they were so much better. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. If my post helps even one person, then I'm glad I shared it. :+1:

Have a wonderful weekend!

@kavaa, understandable. As I mentioned, everyone has a different opinion and a different way they prefer to organize things. I would go mad trying to manually organize that many folders. I prefer separate vaults and minimal tags. But I primarily find things by searching. If I had that many folders, I wouldn't even be able to remember what folder anything was in, and I would end up having to search for it anyway. :lol:

But your vote has definitely been counted! We hear you loud and clear. :+1:

@kavaa I hear you there. I think Khad's idea of adding tag combinations is cool too. Heck, you could even go crazy with something like Medical-Internet as a sub tag of Medical. Sorry we don't have something better quite yet, but power features are making their way. :)