Ability to configure a default folder in the settings of the browser extension

Current situation

Right now when you save a new password, that password is always saved in the no-folder and then afterwards you can organize it in a folder. This was fine for me as long as I was using bitwarden only for my personal passwords. I had no need to organize my passwords in folders anyway.

Requested feature

I would like to be able to configure in the settings of the browser extension which folder I would like all new passwords to be saved to by default.

Motivation

These days, because of Corona, I’ve been moving between jobs a lot. And every time I begin at a new job, I set up a new profile in my Chrome browser to isolate all the work related browser history and extensions from my personal profile. And I also install the bitwarden extension in that second profile every time. I just use my personal bitwarden account for that, because it seems a bit overkill to make a new bitwarden account every time I change jobs. So what I do is that I create a separate folder in which I save all my work-related passwords and then when I leave that job after a few months I delete all the passwords from that folder.

But this workflow is a bit sensitive to user error, because sometimes I forget to move a newly saved password to the right folder. If my requested feature would be implemented then I wouldn’t have to worry about that anymore. Then I just know that every password that I save from my work-related Chrome profile will be saved in my work-related folder in bitwarden.

I would like this feature to work on the web vault also.

I agree, I too would like the ability to set a default folder for filing away new password info.

Thank you in advance!

I agree this is very annoying, would be an amazing feature to add!

It could optionally ask for folder name while saving password.
Refer Lastpass, they do it very nicely.

Thats a pretty good feature! Good request.

I would like a general setting to the vault to always save passwords in a specific collection.

In my case, I manage my kids passwords, and I’d like their new passwords to be stored in a shared collection.

Yeah let’s do this, I’ve been wanting this for a long time…

It’s a simple client-side property if you want to do it fast, defaultFolder=ā€œpersonalā€ or whatever.
Basically just to select a default folder locally. Ideally it would be synced everywhere but it’s a start at least.

Just to share my usecase: I’m using BitWarden with multiple Chrome Profiles, aka one-project/company=one-chrome-profile.
It would be great if I could set the default folder as a browser extension setting, not a global setting. This way I could set it per my chrome profile.

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Please can Bitwarden Dev consider this

This! Exactly what I was looking for!

The ability to change default folder by Tab Group in Safari would also be A1

Just a heads up that this is the main reason I’m using 1Password and NOT Bitwarden
Their extension includes a setting so you can manage vaults ( unlimited ) [Equivalent of folders ] per browser as described here!
So at the moment I have a lot browsers ( school, work, personal and a couple more ) and a vault for each of them
On the respective browser I go to extension settings and turn off the ones I don’t want to use/see on that browser and that’s it, no confusion, really straight forward.

Going to stick with 1Password for now just for that

When you create a new password, it would be nice if you could default it to a folder of your choice, rather than having to select the folder every time.

@Oliver_Ward Welcome to the forum!

I moved your post to this existing (same) feature request.

PS: There is another feature request, partially overlapping with this one: Default ownership and default collection/folder when creating new vault item

+1 Would be a useful and great feature.

I find it frustrating that every time I save a password, I must choose a folder. This is a new behavior that I’m not used to, so I simply click ā€œsave passwordā€ and that results in it not being saved. Not even a notification pops up to let you know you messed up and didn’t select a folder.

Please allow a default folder. I never even wanted folders, but I think lastpass automatically made them so they imported into Bitwarden. It would be great to be able to just merge them all into a single folder easily.

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This would be a good implementation.

@SVL Welcome to the forum!

That doesn’t sound right to me. If you’re e.g. talking about the ā€œNew loginā€ dialog, then I think the current default should be ā€œNo folderā€ – and all items should be saved, but without a ā€œfolder assignmentā€.

You should be able to see all those items as stored - and in the ā€œAll itemsā€ list of the extension, or if you choose ā€œItems with no folderā€ in the ā€œFoldersā€ filter (last entry in the folders list there):

You can bulk assign items to a folder in the web vault (vault.bitwarden.com / vault.bitwarden.eu). Just mark the items / or ā€œAll itemsā€, then click the ā€œbulkā€ three-dot-menu on the right, and choose a folder after clicking ā€œAdd to folderā€:

Does this also mean that the owner is changed directly to ā€œOrganizationā€?

Folders have nothing to do with Organizations/Collections… :wink: