(Archived) Shared Notebooks - Name of who wrote the note

[Karine 0]

Hello! when you share a notebook, the name of the person who wrote a note appear in the note? Or just premium users can see it? I'm using android platform and it's not showing the name of the person who wrote the note... Thanks.

[jefito 5,587]

Doesn't appear to be available, even for premium users (doesn't sound like a premium feature anyways). I looked on the Note Info for a mote that I know has a non-blank author. Nothing there. This is on my Android phone; haven't tried it on my tablet, but I doubt that it's there either.

[Karine 0]

Hello jefito, thanks.

 

I thought that the author would be available. I mean what's the reason for that field if it's not to inform the author? LOL

[GrumpyMonkey 4,316]

Hello jefito, thanks.

 

I thought that the author would be available. I mean what's the reason for that field if it's not to inform the author? LOL

 

It's a bit confusing, isn't it. I think it was conceived of as a way to indicate the author of a clipped web page or the author of an email sent into your account. Back in the day, we didn't have sharing, or sharing was a lot more limited, so the author of something in your account was usually you. I think the author field has always seemed a little like a black sheep, and I think some users have taken to "hacking" it by putting information in the field so that they can sort notes using the advanced search grammar with the "author:" prefix.