silentquest 72 Posted July 30, 2016 Posted July 30, 2016 I have a subscription to Dropbox, iCloud, OneNote, EN (well not yet but considering it). Is there redundancy here? lol. Question. Does anyone use EN as their main document storage solution instead of a Dropbox or iCloud? EN stores documents, allows in document search so why wouldn't I use EN for this? Is there an issue getting documents back out of EN if I choose to in the future? Thanks.
Level 5 DTLow 5,750 Posted July 30, 2016 Level 5 Posted July 30, 2016 7 hours ago, silentquest said: I have a subscription to Dropbox, iCloud, OneNote, EN (well not yet but considering it). Is there redundancy here? lol. Question. Does anyone use EN as their main document storage solution instead of a Dropbox or iCloud? EN stores documents, allows in document search so why wouldn't I use EN for this? Is there an issue getting documents back out of EN if I choose to in the future? I use EN as my only document storage solution, with a backup copy kept on iCloud in html format. edited: Exception of music and photos; they are handled better by dedicated apps There is no issue getting my notes out of EN. I would never have committed to the EN service if there wasn't an easy export.
silentquest 72 Posted July 31, 2016 Author Posted July 31, 2016 Question related to this. I have been devouring youtube vids on EN. One person who seems to do a great job is dottotech. He makes a statement in one of his vids "Evernote is very secure for items where security is not important." (sorry may be a little paraphrase even though I used quotes). This made me wonder if I should use EN as my repository for everything. Now I keep docs that have sensitive information like tax forms, etc in a secure vault in 1Password. I feel good about that. It looks like that same level of security is not possible in EN so I may need to leave those types of items there. I guess anything with a bank account number, SS#, or passwords. One thing I did see with the new CTO is that synch and back end security are 2 items he will be focused on so maybe some of this will change in the future. Thoughts?
Level 5 DTLow 5,750 Posted July 31, 2016 Level 5 Posted July 31, 2016 6 minutes ago, silentquest said: This made me wonder if I should use EN as my repository for everything. Now I keep docs that have sensitive information like tax forms, etc in a secure vault in 1Password. There are discussions of this in the forums that you can search for. My process is to encrypt sensitive information; I use encrypted pdfs. Another option is local notebooks so the data never leaves your computer. I don't use these, preferring the backup and convenience of having my data sync'd to the EN servers and my other devices. I trust EN to look after my data, but I'm not so naive as to think my info is 100% secure (Hello NSA/Chinese/Google agents)
silentquest 72 Posted July 31, 2016 Author Posted July 31, 2016 25 minutes ago, DTLow said: My process is to encrypt sensitive information; I use encrypted pdfs. May I ask what you use to encrypt your files?
Level 5 DTLow 5,750 Posted July 31, 2016 Level 5 Posted July 31, 2016 I do the pdf encryption on my Mac. Encryption is built in to the Preview feature, but its not that strong. There are various third party products; A-PDF has been recommended. Note - EN also has builtin encryption, but it can only be used for text in a note.
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