(Archived) Storing sensitive documents on Evernote

[lourain 0]

Hello,

I have read several posts on security, but I am curious how or if people are using Evernote to store any sensative documents (medical records, etc). If they are now are you doing it? I am concerned on putting certain docs online. I can encrypt the document and but would not expect it to be searchable. Currently I keep everyone on a detachable drive.

Any ideas, thoughts??

Thanks

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

This has been discussed a lot. If you searched on security, you should have found posts discussing local notebooks, password encrypted PDFs & EN's ability to encrypt text.

[jbenson2 2,147]

For sensitive documents, I store them in an Evernote unsync'd Notebook on my local client.

This prevents the info from being accessible on my mobile device or the web.

[Metrodon 2,184]

And if you are only going to store them locally, then remember to back them up....

Personally, I put most things in Evernote - if someone wants to steal my identity there are far easier ways of doing it than getting into Evernote, finding my notes, un-encrypting them etc etc.

The only real exception is my banking user names and passwords which live in my head only.

[jbenson2 2,147]

You should back up regardless of whether the notes are in sync'd or local non-sync'd notebooks. True, the sync'd notebooks can be restored from the cloud, but for large Evernote databases, that will take a considerable amount of download time.

In Windows, all notes, sync'd notebooks, local non-sync'd notebooks, shared notebooks are stored in the .exb file.

• (yourusername.exb file)

[Richard Feynman 7]

The only real exception is my banking user names and passwords which live in my head only.

You mean you don't keep them written on a note in your wallet with your bank card like some people do ?