Write protection for notes

[clipnote 30]

Write protection for notes.

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Hello dear Evernote Community.

Is it possible to protect a note with write protection, so that it cannot be easily edited?

• via password protection
• via setting
• via unlocking
• with notification

Creating a copy and/or duplicate of a note is possible, but not optimal for maintaining an overview of the whole. Also, manually converting it into a PDF file is a way to at least save the content as a "fixed part of its information" in advance. However, this takes some time and patience, and additionally, many notes are thus found multiple times in the notebook 😕

Some notes should be transformed and treated in the same way as a PDF document via setting😛

Best regards

[mackid1993 1,274]

The only option would be to encrypt the contents and set a password.

[PinkElephant 8,814]

There are more options build into EN to limit unwanted edits:

On mobile you can enable write protection in settings, notes.

Furthermore there is note history, allowing to go backwards in the timeline of changes. You can reset a note to an earlier state, or create an independent copy of that state as a new note.

If the note is shared, you can set the access rights of the recipients to read only.

Should be enough to heal the consequences of any fat finger syndrome.

[mackid1993 1,274]

38 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

There are more options build into EN to limit unwanted edits:

On mobile you can enable write protection in settings, notes.

Furthermore there is note history, allowing to go backwards in the timeline of changes. You can reset a note to an earlier state, or create an independent copy of that state as a new note.

If the note is shared, you can set the access rights of the recipients to read only.

Should be enough to heal the consequences of any fat finger syndrome.

Write protection is useful on mobile, it sounded more like protecting a note from someone else with access to it. Besides sharing permissions with a shared note, encryption would be the only option if it's a shared computer/account situation.

[PinkElephant 8,814]

Logging out of the client solves it by applying the user & password protection to ALL notes at once.

[mackid1993 1,274]

Just now, PinkElephant said:

Logging out of the client solves it by applying the user & password protection to ALL notes at once.

Yeah I mean that's pretty obvious... if they were looking for that answer I don't think they would have even asked the question.

[clipnote 30]

The opinion of the question based at the Problem with misclic and edit accidentally ... 🫣

[PinkElephant 8,814]

For me it makes no sense to protect to avoid misclicks. Protection creates more clicks, which enhances the risk of misclicks.

Against misclicks there is note history.

[mackid1993 1,274]

58 minutes ago, clipnote said:

The opinion of the question based at the Problem with misclic and edit accidentally ... 🫣

On mobile use edit protection, on desktop don't have fat fingers idk.

[clipnote 30]

On Desktop i have with the 10-Finger-Tipping-System the "F11" Shortcut - Effect - Problem too many times too 😅

[Teos2515 4]

Thanks for help.