You can also put things in the public folder. No idea why you'd do it though. Perhaps you store your Dropbox password itself in 1Password and therefore you don'

You can also put things in the public folder. No idea why you'd do it though. Perhaps you store your Dropbox password itself in 1Password and therefore you don't have access to it when you are away from your devices, hence the need for a public and open link. (you still need to remember the public link to the keychain though)