Option 1: Making an App ShortcutĪpp Shortcuts (a.k.a “Keyboard Shortcuts”) can easily be added via the System Preferences » Keyboard » Shortcuts » App Shortcuts. There are advantages and disadvantages to both, as I’ll explain below. The only difficulty was that moving something to the archive required four mouse clicks: “Item” » “Share” » “Archive” » “Move” (see image at the top of this article), but that is a problem which I could solve one of two ways: either create an App Shortcut in OS X’s System Preferences, or use a Keyboard Maestro macro. Instead of “Should I delete this and hope I never need it, or keep it and deal with it cluttering up my 1Password?” I only had to ask “Do I use this often?” That turned out to be a very easy question to answer, and since I was archiving instead of deleting, I knew that if I later realize that I guessed wrong, I can get it back very easily. Once I had an archive vault (which I named “Archive” because I am süper creative), I could ask a completely different question. I read the Guide to Multiple Vaults support document from AgileBits and had a new vault working in a few seconds. I had avoided it partially because I assumed it would be complicated to set up and a hassle to use I was wrong on both counts. This feature isn’t new (it has been around since version 4) but I had never used it. That’s when I remembered 1Password’s “vaults” feature. The end result was that I didn’t get rid of very much, and it still felt like I had more in my 1Password database than I really needed. Do I need to see it every time I search for “Google” in 1Password? No.) It is hard to know if I might ever need something again, and so I tended to err on the side of caution, meaning that I would keep things, even if I didn’t use them all that often. (Do I need to save the password for a friend’s WiFi login if I only see them once or twice a year? Couldn’t I just ask them for it again if I did need it? Do I need to keep a copy of my mother-in-law’s Gmail password in case she forgets it? Yes. I found myself trying to guess if I might need something later. The process was boring, time-consuming and frustrating. Most often I found that the account could not be deleted unless I contacted someone, or the login information was no longer valid. the user forum for some piece of software that I used 3 years ago). Search results were cluttered with accounts that I no longer use, don’t use very often, or other information that I might need some day.Īt first I went through and attempted to deactivate/delete accounts that I no longer use (i.e. Recently it started to feel like I had too much in there. I’ve been using 1Password since January of 2008, which means that I have a lot of passwords and other bits of secure information stored in there.
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