@tommy why not using city, state, purpose, role as tags?
@Ulrich_Neumann To my knowledge, those fields are only available for Identities, not login credentials. Those fields aren’t searchable in Identities, either.
To answer your question with the assumption that tagging was available and searchable:
Tags are a valuable way to filter information. However, Folder/Tree/Category organization serves as a powerful primary filter when it comes to large amounts of information. They also allow you to inherently provide a context or namespace for similarly named items.
Folder/Tree/Category layout is an almost universally understood visual representation of structure or hierarchy in software. It practically requires zero training for someone familiar with any kind of organizational software.
I would love this feature as well. I use a data vault that has the equivalent of two levels of folders, although they’re not treated as folders. The top level is called “wallets” and I have “family” and “personal” and “work” and a few others to keep track of different high level categories of accounts. Under each wallet you can have one layer of folders (e.g., bank accounts, credit cards, credit card web sites, home network logins, ISPs, Mailing Lists, Utility Logins, Medical Logins, memberships, training, support logins, web store logins, travel sites, and so on).
This is super handy for keeping separate my personal accounts from my work accounts and from accounts of other people for whom I provide tech support and thus need to track.
I prefer to keep folders where most folders only have a few dozen items (at most) so I can quickly navigate to it.
A lack of this kind of feature is what prevents me from migrating from what I’m using today.
+1, i’d like to migrate to your solution which is better i think 
But it’s a nessecity for me to have sub-folder.
have you an idea of how many time it will take ?
Thanks for your job and keep on going !
Allowing an arbitrary number of sub-folders to both other folders and collections would be a fantastic feature for managing large amounts of passwords.
I agree on having folders. While I search when it for something specific, I also use a hierarchical structure because my I have multiple geographic locations and contexts.
- 1 for the nested folders structure + membership by tags!
When will sub-folders be released?
A beta version of nested folders has been released to the web vault (v2.5.0). Other apps will also include this ability in the future, but for now this is limited to the web vault for testing.
Nested folders work by using a naming convention with the forward slash character (/) as a delimiter. For example, if I have folders with the names “Work” and “Work/Email”, “Email” will be nested underneath the “Work” folder. There is no limit on the depth you can do with this, though the UI might start to break due to the nested indenting if you get too crazy.
Screenshot:
In this example I have the following folders:
- Personal
- Personal/Email
- Personal/Email/Sub
- Social
- Work
- Work/Clients
- Work/Email
NOTE: This features also works for collections in your organizations, though it is only for display purposes. Collection access and permissions are not inherited by “children”.
Please let me know if you encounter any issues.
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Hello kspearrin,
Thank you for implementing this function. That looks quite good after all!
2 questions:
1: What about the import of password files and their subfolders? That won’t work at the moment, but it will come, won’t it?
2: Will it be possible to create a subfolder directly from a parent folder with the button “Create folder”? So without the current detour with Folder/Subfolder/SubSubFolder…
I will test this and give a feedback.
Many greetings
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Not sure I understand. If you use the delimiter rule as defined above in your import file it will work just fine.
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No, for now you will need to type the name out as defined above each time you create a new folder.
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Any ideas when this update will be released ? I just bought multiple enterprise accounts to try and have to import folders/subfolders etc to organize database. Nested subfolders for collections should be developed in first place.
Hello kspearrin,
Issue;
Mac OS 10.13.6
Firefox 63.0.1
or
Chrome 70.0.3538
I try use subfolder type:
Test/123
but from Bitwarden Web Vault the name appears attached not in subfolder.
thank you
bye
Need to create “Test” folder too.
sorry… ok perfect now!
When release desktop app 1.10?
thank you
Desperate for this feature. Have a very complex nested folder structure in KeePass and I cannot migrate until this has been implemented.
This is now available in all apps except mobile (still being worked on there). See here for more info: https://help.bitwarden.com/article/folders/
Closing this request now.
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