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How do you get around the lack of bookmarks in the 1password browser for ios?

[I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password]

You could use the Favorites section. I favorite my most frequently used sites and use that for most logins that I access often.

Would that work? If you have a particular use case that you can run me through that would be wonderful.

Also, user gwkoehler, currently above me in this thread, suggests the ophttp:// and ophttps:// in front of users to open in 1Password. There is a bookmarklet for this here:

http://www.macstories.net/links/1password-4-1/

Kyle

AgileBits

My wife bookmarks like a dozen tumblr pages, Reddit posts, fanfic stories, random websites a day on her iPhone and then reads them in bed on her iPad at the end of the day. She's not real tech savvy so I've got her using Chrome which syncs them up to all of our devices: 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, a PC that boots osx and windows, and a Nook. She can pick up any device and her bookmarks are there. It would be difficult to get her to give up that functionality or have to switch browsers depending on what site she's on. Even the bookmarklet that switches you to 1Password isn't intuitive. I wish 1Password would manage bookmarks and sync them between devices like Chrome does.

Thanks for this information!

I'll take this feedback and see if there's anything we can do in future updates to try to come up with a solution.

I can't make any promises, but I'm sure you're not the only one with a similar type of use case. That said though, I don't think we'll be able to integrate with Chrome Sync, pretty sure that's closed up pretty tight.

Personally, one of the things I'd love to see is the ability to save a page to Pinboard, which is what I use for bookmarks that I want to read later or reference later. Not sure if that would be of any real use for you though.

Thanks!

Kyle

AgileBits

My personal solution is to use https://pinboard.in for all of my bookmarks.

The thing this doesn't provide me are bookmarks (such as banking, servers, etc) that I need to keep more secure than a public site (even with privacy settings). However, most of these types of items are saved in 1Password.

My method: use mobile Safari, and when I need to log in, put "op" in front of the URL (so it looks like "ophttp://" or "ophttps://"). Press Enter, this launches 1password and points its browser at the URL, ready to autofill.

great tip, thanks for this

I often just copy and paste the passwords from 1Password into Chrome for IOS. Chrome sync is the one feature that prevents me from using 1Password's IOS browser for anything but the most casual use.

Now if AgileBits could figure out a way to integrate with Chrome Sync, that would be something...

Do you mean strictly for bookmarks?

I'm not sure how feasible this is, having never looked into it, but I can certainly pass this along as an idea if you can confirm the request for only bookmarks. Again, no promises because it might be locked down pretty heavily.

Kyle

AgileBits

No, not bookmark syncing (although that is something that is included in the Chrome Sync service). I mean syncing the open tabs across devices[1].

I use iOS Chrome over Safari (and 1PW Browser) exclusively for this feature. Any tab I have open on my desktop is synced to the cloud and available to access from my iOS devices. Any tabs open on my iPhone are also available from my Desktop copy of Chrome.

So yes, similar to bookmarks -- but for currently open tabs.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2591582?hl=en

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