Proposal to rename Folders to Tags

[hauser (ha)]

After using bitwarden with some users a little while; on teaching our users how to use bitwarden, we got aware that the concept of folders is misleading, but explaining it as tags (and nested tags) made it clear.
I further explained that folders are “personal-tags” and collections are “company-wide-tags” (if I’m not mistaken).

Feature Functions:

• none (it’s just a more understandable naming)

Benefits:

• lesser explaining how the concepts of folders and collections work as they use names of already established concepts / do no longer use names of a misleading concept

[hauser (ha)]

Closed in favor of

Reduce confusion around folders

folders act more like tags, and don’t stick to the item itself but rather stick to the item and member combination. it’s really weird, and new users often delete shared items in an attempt to “remove them from the folder” when they need to edit the item to remove the folder from the item… no one thinks to click edit on the item itself to “remove it from the folder” Very confusing UX. The whole concept needs to be revamped.

and

Replace Folders functionality by a Tags functionality

Feature Name: Tags Feature Description: Replace the folders behavior by a tags behavior. Reason: I personally don’t find the folder feature particularily handy because every item can only be put into a single specific folder (or remain in the no folder state, which is more or less also a folder). Tags basically work like folders but any item can be assigned to multiple tags instead of only one folder. I have hundreds of passwords. If I put for example paypal into the finance folder I cannot ha…

[hauser (ha)]

@System-Admins
How can I “close” this post?

[dh024 (David H)]

Closed it for you!