Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by CircleReader on Nov. 19, 2010 ·

This is a great addon - straightforward and effective. Thank you for making & sharing it, Daniel!

As with Spikes, however, the ability to organize my stored passwords would be useful. In fact, I found your addon while searching - unsuccessfully - for exactly that functionality! (I am looking for a simple way to segregate the set of my work bookmarks from my slightly overlapping set of personal ones.)

I don't know how complicated it would be to add in an extra field for "tags," but it would certainly fit easily into the uncomplicated SPE user interface; and it would do the trick for Spikes, myself, and probably others as well.

Thanks again!

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.5.3).  This user has a previous review of this add-on.

by Daniel Dawson (Developer) on Nov. 20, 2010 ·

Okay, I see what you're talking about here; as I said before, the password manager already includes functionality for sorting on the visible fields, and Spikes never said anything about tags. That would indeed be nice. But it would indeed be more complicated than just having an interface for editing. For starters, changing the database in which the passwords are stored is probably out of the question, as it would break compatibility with anything else that interacts with that database. I'd need to store the tags separately and try to keep them reasonably in sync. New passwords wouldn't automatically be tagged in any way.

Also, no doubt you'd like to see the tags listed in the password manager and be able to filter on them (otherwise the tags aren't very useful), perhaps even see the passwords grouped in the list. That would mean significant and possibly deep changes to the password manager interface, where currently I'm only adding a few widgets to provide access to my editor.

I'll at least think about this, though.

EDIT: I've created Password Categories to provide this functionality, which isn't really appropriate as part of this add-on.