(Archived) Recommended way to share notes privately with diff groups?

[qtoaster 0]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how we could use either current or planned Evernote 3 features to be able to share notes with different groups of people

It would be useful if (some) of the notes could be kept private, possibly via groups created between different evernote accounts (as opposed to an obfuscated but open url)

Thanks

[engberg 89]

We plan to add sharing to individual email addresses in the next few months. This would look like our current "public" notebooks, but each person would receive an individualized URL that you could later revoke.

Currently, the only way to support this would be to make an intentionally obscure public notebook URL and send that to people. There's no central listing for public notebooks, so if you don't give anyone the URL (and no one guesses it), then they won't see it.

[indiepants 0]

Is it true that publicly shared notes are (or will be) indexed by search engines? A previous poster read this somewhere and asked but went unanswered.

[engberg 89]

Is it true that publicly shared notes are (or will be) indexed by search engines? A previous poster read this somewhere and asked but went unanswered.

If you make one of your notebooks public, and you give out that URL anywhere that a search engine can find it, then it will be indexed by that search engine. For example, if you post a link to your public notebook on a blog, Twitter, forum, etc.

We don't push out a "master list" of public notebooks, so search engines will only find your notebook if someone links to it.

[qtoaster 0]

Does Evernote have a policy for robots crawling public notebooks, or are you happy for google and other random bots to beat a path in and through your site?

Google is a special case of course (and any other search engines you care about) but what about other random bots that consume resources and do nothing for your traffic statistics

[engberg 89]

We're treating public notebooks a bit like a blog ... if you post the link elsewhere, and search engines reach us through those links, then we'll let them crawl your public notebook. Traffic from non-search-engine crawlers hasn't been problematic yet, but we're monitoring this along with general abuse prevention.

Thanks