Items, fields & organizing

Everything in your vault is an item. Keyguard supports five types:

  • Login — username, password, one-time password, and any number of URLs;
  • Card — payment cards;
  • Identity — names, addresses, and contact details;
  • Note — free-form secure text;
  • SSH key — key pairs used by the SSH agent.

Custom fields

Any item can carry extra fields beyond the built-in ones. Four field types are available:

  • Text — a plain visible value;
  • Hidden — concealed like a password, revealed on demand;
  • Boolean — a checkbox;
  • Linked — a reference to one of the item’s built-in fields (for example, the login’s username), useful when a site’s form needs a value under a different field name during autofill.

Some custom-field names carry special meaning — Tag, WiFi SSID, and friends — see Item types & extras.

Items carrying WiFi credentials get a dedicated WiFi view with a QR code: scan it with another device to join the network without typing the password. The field conventions that enable it are described in Item types & extras.

Organizing

  • Folders can be nested: use / in a folder name to create a hierarchy, like Work/Servers. Move items with the Move to folder action.
  • Favorites pin the items you use most.
  • Archive tucks away items you want to keep but don’t want in everyday lists — archived items can be restored at any time.
  • Trash holds deleted items until you restore or permanently delete them. (Bitwarden’s own server purges trashed items after 30 days; local KeePass vaults keep them until you remove them.)
  • Tags label items across folders — see Tags below.

For bulk work, long-press to multi-select items and apply batch actions — move several items at once, or merge duplicates into a single item (handy when Watchtower reports duplicate entries).

Tags

Tags label items independently of folders — an item can carry any number of them, and the search can filter on them. Storage follows the account type: on KeePass items, tags map to the database’s native tags; on Bitwarden items — whose platform has no tag concept — each tag is a visible custom field named exactly Tag, the convention described in Item types & extras, so your tags survive round-trips through other Bitwarden clients.

Per-item protection

Sensitive items can demand an extra step: enable the authentication re-prompt on an item and Keyguard asks you to authenticate again whenever the item is viewed or autofilled.

Password history

Login items keep a password history, so a password you replaced — deliberately or not — is never simply gone. Open an item’s menu and choose View password history.