Read-Only Option for Notes

[alexferen 23]

Hi... Tried EN many moons ago, then went with OneNote but EN's cloud and accessible anywhere features are bringing me back...Enough kudos...

Is there a way to mark a note as "read-only" so I cannot accidentally erase or modify it? Thanks. Alex

[DTLow 4,204]

46 minutes ago, tavor said:

Seems to me the optimal solution here is not to default to locked state for all notes (which would require an unlock step prior to editing every note - this could become very onerous very quickly for those who edit notes frequently

My vote is for an edit mode toggle; this applies to all platforms. And the default should be read mode

Locked notes is a different request.  It’s currently supported in Evernote but requires third party products.  I can use scripting on my Mac to update the note’s contentClass attribute

[DTLow 4,204]

56 minutes ago, annbelievesinwhales said:

What's happening with it? Is it currently in the works? Has evernote ever addressed why this hasn't been added?

This doesn't seem to be a priority item.  
Anyone wanting to indicate support for this request,  please use the voting buttons in the top left corner.  Vote count is currently  

[geetarplayer 6]

+1   -  particularly on Windows client.

[Surya Halim 1]

Definitely a very nice thing to have.

Nothing is more frustrating than to find out you have mangled an important note due to fumbling when you were in a hurry.

I doubt it is difficult to implement since we already have such thing for Android Evernote, why not for iOS version too? Why not across the board?

[BruceD 0]

I like this thinking as a read only.  I was thinking along the lines as a confirm to save when leaving the note.  So, if you did inadvertently change something, you have the option to back out. Or another idea is to put on an edit button to edit the note.  Like always, this can be an option in preferences.

[eric99 118]

FYI: this is a link to my EditConfimation AHK script (for evernote on windows). For the time being it's a good work-around and we may use it to assess different solutions to prevent accidental deletion/modification.  Hopefully this info may contribute to the final implementation in EN...

https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/104215-autohotkey-scripts-for-evernote/?do=findComment&comment=487691

 

Edited December 27, 2017 by eric99
============EditConfirmation script v0.0.15

[mwiecek 0]

+1 for Lock/Edit mode

[eric99 118]

If you need read-only functionality for evernote on windows, have a look at my AHK script:

https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/104215-autohotkey-scripts-for-evernote/?do=findComment&comment=487691

Now I can finally grant my family full access rights to our "paperless home" without any risk of accidental loss of important data :-)

 

[onatbas 10]

Hello everyone. I just saw this thread and wanted to share my solution to this.

I had this exact same problem, and it looks like that's possible on the programming interface, but not in the application. So I've written an application to mark notes readonly through the API. You can use this to have read-only functionality in Evernote, it's very easy to use..

Here's the link to it. http://onat.me/readonlymaker

 

I've been using it for a while and it's gained some more users in the past year and I must say it completely changed my way of using evernote. Now whenever I have a note that's not readonly, I get restless.

 

In case anyone wants to build on this, here's the code https://github.com/onatbas/readonlytagger

[DTLow 4,204]

2 hours ago, onatbas said:

Hello everyone. I just saw this thread and wanted to share my solution to this.

Thanks for the post on a read-only solution for notes

I like that your solution runs in the cloud. I investigated implementing read-only by updating the contentClass field, but I could only implement on my Mac

Your unlock process is awkward.  I'd prefer a simple unlock of the note instead of: 

• This will create a duplicate of the same note in your default notebook, which you can edit (title and content only). After you're done with it, add "makemigration" tag to this duplicate, without changing prior tags, and sync. After a minute or so, this duplicate will be deleted and your original will be updated with the content you provided in the duplicate.

[CalS 4,075]

Uh, not to do anything at this point?  And they don't discuss futures at all to date.

[CraigZ 21]

Upvoted.  I'd also like a way to automatically read only a block of notes, or notes older than a certain time frame.  I'm quite paranoid that a random keystroke (or other hickup) will result in note contents being deleted and it not being realized (for a long long time).  [Although I suppose this is a reason for versioned notes in premium]

[DTLow 4,204]

Read-only is still not an Evernote feature, but see the post below for a solution by third party Filterize

 

[DTLow 4,204]

Read-only is not an Evernote feature, but see the post below for a solution by third party Filterize

 

[Mehdi H 0]

One year and a half, and nothing !

I stopped using Evernote just because of this, and I was hoping this feature would have been added now, but... no !

It's a shame !

[UncleRic 10]

This has been a popular concern for nearly a half-decade.

Yet, there is apparently no movement from Evernote™ that I'm aware of.

[s2sailor 808]

23 minutes ago, UncleRic said:

This has been a popular concern for nearly a half-decade.

Yet, there is apparently no movement from Evernote™ that I'm aware of.

There have been numerous suggestions expressed over the years that the EN team haven't implemented so I wouldn't feel too singled out over this one.  I can sometimes understand the direction they take, other times I'm baffled.  FWIW, I would like this too and have upvoted the topic.

[ActorTim 1]

On 6/8/2015 at 8:20 AM, gazumped said:

Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z should undo a careless keystroke ...

It should, but it doesn't.  The lack of an 'undo' feature or support for Ctrl-Z has caused me problems on both iPad and in the browser UI when I'm using Chrome on Windows.

[UncleRic 10]

....how to I see the history of my edits?

[DTLow 4,204]

7 minutes ago, UncleRic said:

....how to I see the history of my edits?

Evernote maintains a Note History data backup.  More info at https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313858-How-to-access-and-use-note-history

Access to the data is a paid feature; you can subscribe for a single month.

[UncleRic 10]

I've been a Premium user for years.   I have several THOUSANDS of notes from software development to legal papers.   I hadn't notice the 'i'nfo button before.

There's probably a dozen features that I'm not aware of.

Thanks for the 'i'nfo.

[geetarplayer 6]

2 hours ago, marc_k said:

+1

Just a simple "Lock Notebook" option would suffice. To edit any Note in that Notebook, user can "Unlock Notebook". That's it.

It would help A LOT.

Across all platforms.

Thank you guys. Great product! I love Evernote!

Please start a separate thread. What you're talking about is different. We are talking about Notes, on a per-note basis, as locked/read-only. Not an entire Notebook. Thanks.

[Seraphym 0]

+1 from me! I want to be able to set a note as Read Only or Archived, with an extra step beyond just clicking within the note or on the edit button. Something that says clearly: You are about to edit an Archive copy... or even better: The Archived note CANNOT be edited at all; if you want to add to or edit the information, you have to choose "copy this note" or whatever the menu wording is for making a new note with the same information.

Now for my tirade: I cannot count how many times I've been horrified to realize something got deleted or changed - especially since I often don't have a backup copy somewhere. I think what's happening is that perhaps EN designers/programmers aren't actually heavy EN users and think people are being needlessly careless and should simply try being more careful. That seems about the size of EN's attitude towards their users. (I don't use the word clients because it's so obvious that we're not considered clients.) One of the things I had hoped to be able to rely on when I subscribed was the note history feature, but like another user mentioned, the way the history is saved is somewhat random and almost never catches what it was I accidentally changed. One of the most common, and most annoying times I lose information is when I'm trying to copy and paste from a note. If I accidentally hit any other key, it's of course replaced by that letter and my precious info is gone... for some reason Undo doesn't always work.

This was actually one of the very first features I noticed was lacking when I first began using Evernote in... gosh, it must have been around 2007 or something? I was actually shocked; Evernote seemed to be such a forward-thinking, intuitive program that I just couldn't believe something like that wasn't already in place. I have to say that I am actually kind of disgusted that it's around 10 years (TEN YEARS?!) later, and this is nowhere near close to being implemented.

I've been growing more and more unhappy with EN ever since they began to charge for certain features which had previously been free. I would have been happy to pay for new features for premium users, but I felt quite exasperated with having to shell out just to continue using features I'd become dependent on. Now, on the one hand, it makes financial sense to hook people on something and then charge for it. I mean hey, that's the tactic used in certain other, um... shady deals, shall we say? But it doesn't make sense to me to alienate customers over it. I've been a subscriber to Premium since it was introduced, because like I said, I was dependent on certain features and the idea of changing the way I collect, store and access all my information was too overwhelming to consider.

But after reading about feature after feature that I have wanted and clearly other people have wanted for years just being ignored, I have come to the conclusion that Evernote designs Evernote according to what they think is cool. Not their users. The very first rule of coding and marketing is that if the end user (majority, of course) doesn't like it, it's useless. I have started researching other note-taking, information managing systems as many of them have improved over the years. I'd still be facing a sea change in terms of my entire framework of collecting, storing and accessing an actual metric ton of information (If it was on paper), but I'm starting to wonder if it's a sea change that just needs to happen in order to keep progressing and becoming more efficient. And that makes me really sad.

[EWest 3]

It happened: I let a labmate look at a circuit diagram in one of my notes, and he accidentally deleted the diagram and closed out before the change could be reverted. Please implement this feature, Evernote! The current system makes our data terribly fragile, and it's extremely stressful!

[DTLow 4,204]

7 minutes ago, Elizabeth West said:

The current system makes our data terribly fragile, and it's extremely stressful!

I posted this feature request but I wanted to address the fragile and stressful comment
I'm recover lost data from backups.  I have personal backups and Evernote has a Note History backup feature.

[EWest 3]

8 minutes ago, DTLow said:

I posted this feature request but I wanted to address the fragile and stressful comment
I'm recover lost data from backups.  I have personal backups and Evernote has a Note History backup feature.

Fair enough! I also have personal backups, but noticing and correcting these data-loss problems is time-consuming and stressful. Also, Note History is only accessible in Premium or above, and we can only afford Plus. The read-only feature seems like one that should be accessible at any price point.

[UncleRic 10]

If you're a paid subscriber, such as I, then you should have access to your HISTORY.

It's located in the top-right corner with the three (3) dots: ...
Choose 'History' and go from there.

 

[EWest 3]

17 minutes ago, UncleRic said:

If you're a paid subscriber, such as I, then you should have access to your HISTORY.

This is true for Premium subscribers but not for lower-tier paying Plus subscribers like me. I understand that Plus was phased out this year, but those who were already members got grandfathered in. This is the message I get when I select "Note History":

 

Sorry this side-conversation is getting pretty far afield from the purpose of the thread. I just hoped that sharing my data-loss scare might help nudge Evernote in the direction of adding this requested feature.

[onatbas 10]

Hello everyone. I just wanted to let you know that I've provided a solution to this problem a while ago. Instructions are available here: http://onat.me/readonlymaker 

If you want to learn more, I have some more comments in this thread, a little old by now but this solution still works, there actually are a quite a number of users. 

It doesn't need anything to use, you just add "readonly" as a tag to a note, and they're locked in evernote in next sync, simple as that, works in every platform.

Best,
Onat

If you have any feedback, kindly reach out via evernote certified consultants page ( https://evernote.com/certified-consultants ) by searching with my name or via my website .

 

[UncleRic 10]

This has been an issue for YEARS.
Evernote appears to believe that only Premium subscribers have access to history; which is different from having a mutable/immutable toggle switch installed.

I don't see the difficulty (from a software-developer's perspective) to have such a simple locking feature.

They are actually two features for Evernote.  The doc-locking should be standard  for ALL  users; the history could remain a PREMIUM feature... less useful for the general user.

I don't know how to get Evernote's attention to address this.

[DTLow 4,204]

44 minutes ago, UncleRic said:

I don't know how to get Evernote's attention to address this.

The read-only feature request is posted at the top of this discussion.  You can indicate your support using the voting buttons at the top left corner of the discussion.

I'm using a Mac and data backups are easily implemented using Evernote's export feature.

[. . . 2]

read only or even revision history. I understand revision history is a big ask though.

[DTLow 4,204]

1 hour ago, . . . said:

I understand revision history is a big ask though.

Evernote has a revision history feature; more info at https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313858-How-to-use-note-history-to-view-older-versions-of-a-note

I also maintain my own version using incremental backups

 

[CalS 4,075]

13 minutes ago, eric99 said:

What good are these backups if  you don't know which notes have been  altered accidentally?

Good question.  Though, typically I don't know something has happened until I access the note and realize something is wrong, or I can't find the note (one I'm sure I created).  Doesn't happen often, but at that point History does the trick mostly, but the backups support the oops delete.  Local notebooks I have to use my own ENEX backups for both altered and deleted.

[Antonio Puglisi 0]

On 9/4/2018 at 8:03 PM, Shane D. said:

Hi All,

You may have noticed that all threads requesting the ability to lock notes and make them read only have been merged into this thread, regardless of platform specificity. 

This was done in order to better enable us to quantify and qualify user requests, and amplify their voice.

While this does not mean this is a feature that will be coming, we certainly want to relay user feedback/sentiment to our various teams.

Moving forward, please put all commentary and votes for the ability to lock notes and make them read only support here!

+1

[Bestranger 0]

4 years and still nothing ? We need this function for Android !

[gazumped 7,137]

1 hour ago, Bestranger said:

4 years and still nothing ? We need this function !

These forums are for feature requests - Evernote isn't obliged to deliver on any of them,  and may well have other work planned (or other, better supported requests) which have to be completed before a given request is considered.  This particular suggestion has 11 votes - some current requests have over 100.  And the CEO has just gone public with a statement that existing bugs and inconsistencies are being prioritised over new features - which may mean development being shelved for a year.  Although,  this feature already exists on mobile devices so maybe they'll bring desktops in line...

[jozefbaar 0]

hahaha, never.

only one thing they are able to do is refreshing logo.

bravo!

 

[flaviof 0]

On 3/31/2017 at 12:29 PM, onatbas said:

Hello everyone. 

It's been some tıme I had my eye on this feature. Today I reserved some time into doing this and created a simple web app.

It works like this: you tag your notes with a tag called 'readonly' and every five minutes, the system checks your notes and makes tagged ones read-only. You can subscribe to the service via : https://ro-app.run.aws-usw02-pr.ice.predix.io/

. Plese note that this is a 2-3 hour work and I will not maintain it in terms of look etc. It simply does what it promises to do. If there's a huge interest in the project I might allocate some more time into it, though. 

Cheers,
Onat

I'm getting a 404 for that link. then again, it is almost 2 years old. :^)  Anyone have news on this?

 

 

 

 

[Reinier Garcia Ramos 0]

I would love to have a read only option in the interface of my EverNote app (Mac OS, Windows and Android in my case). It is completely necessary, so I wont be able to accidentally modify or erase important content. For example, SSN, passwords, banks and credit cards information and other important stuff. I don't know why this has not been included yet in the app. It is very important to increase the user experience.

[UncleRic 10]

I've been pursuing this for a half decade.

No response from Evernote.  😫

[onatbas 10]

Hello everyone. I've received a couple mails from new users saying they couldn't use the readonlytagger. I found a small bug that caused a failure in authentication. This should be fixed now. But users who authenticated in past 2 days, please re-login and things should be back to normal.

[rm501 0]

+1 will be super! 

[DTLow 4,204]

 

[HWilliam 0]

Yes! A read-only lock would be a worthwhile feature. 

[Hirle 0]

+1!

Please implement such a feature!

[eric_r_guimaraes 0]

+1 need it!

[DTLow 4,204]

11 hours ago, Tburgueso said:

if I believe the state of a document to be precious, I want to be able to mark it as such.

My work-around solution is using a feature provided by third party Filterize.

>>I’ve asked for this repeatedly, and for years.

Your account shows a single post

[UncleRic 10]

Fortunately, paid users have the history option so it's possible to revert any inadvertent changes; via

the three dots (...) menu in the upper right corner.   

[UncleRic 10]

I know.

I've been on this for YEARS.

Many of us use Evernote™ for assorted legal documents that must be read-only
I'm sure the Evernote people are aware of this concern; don't know why it is not remedied.

I only mentioned this feature since other solutions don't appear to help.

[Wilf Forrow 9]

It's great that they're working on a single cross-platform editor - surely this would be a great time to introduce the simplest of 'Lock Note' / 'Unlock Note' feature?  

I suspect that the best is the enemy of the good here, because there are many other things we'd probably also like, for example:

• Default this note to Readonly again after close.
• Default all notes in a Notebook to Readonly.
• Restrict or give permission to lock or unlock a note.
• And no doubt, dozens more

BUT - people are losing data NOW from typo's, accidental clicks, inadvertent changes, often without realising it.

A simple Lock/Unlock Note button would eliminate 99% of them!

[DTLow 4,204]

2 hours ago, Tburgueso said:

I’m uninterested in talking about Evernote. I’m interested in talking to Evernote, so they can build a tool which is better suited to my needs. I’ve used hammers for about 70 years, and am equally uninterested in talking about them.

You may want to avoid posting in Evernote/Hammer User Discussion forums?  😋

There is a feature request posted at the top of this discussion.  You can indicate your support using the vote buttons at the top left corner

[Tburgueso 1]

22 minutes ago, DTLow said:

You may want to avoid posting in Evernote/Hammer User discussion forums?  😋

There is a feature request posted at the top of this discussion.  You can indicate your support using the vote buttons at the top left corner

There does seem to be some level of participation by Evernote employees, who identify themselves as such; I’ll therefore assume that their presence here (“here” being a forum on the company’s website) is a part of their job. I’ve been griping about this lack of basic functionality (and I do recognize that my choice of vocabulary represents a value judgement, one perhaps not shared by others) since the ancient days when the support interface consisted of talking to a human on the phone. Over the past half-dozen years, each of my attempts to raise the issue again through the support link has been answered by a boiler-plate “That’s a great idea!” email, as I described before. My reluctant participation on the forum is an attempt to amplify the small squawk I’m able to produce. 

Thanks for the pointer to the voting button; I had missed that. However, it does bring me back to my initial contention, that although this forum is ostensibly of, by, and for the user community, the only way it can effect any corrective change is by means of the participation and responsiveness of the company.

[Seraphym 0]

46 minutes ago, DTLow said:

You may want to avoid posting in Evernote/Hammer User discussion forums?  😋

There is a feature request posted at the top of this discussion.  You can indicate your support using the vote buttons at the top left corner

Are you a moderator or EN employee, DTLow? I don't see any icons or other designations, but I'm on mobile and might not see the same information as on desktop. 

[PinkElephant 551]

The rules are this:

They may come, may watch, may sometimes share some information.

But this is not an official forum, they come and go as they please, and if you need support, you should use the official means. As a Premium user, you have a choice of sending an email or use the chat (unfortunately, no live talking to a person).

The official, declared focus of EN for this year is to consolidate the core functions like the search or the editor, and to reduce complexity that has generated through the years leading to 5 different clients for the user interaction. Even if this means that most user requests going further will have to wait, I can live with that. I use the Windows, the Mac and the iOS client frequently, and sometimes the webclient. If these are more alike in the future, I am willing to wait for a lot of other stuff while they work on the redo.

There are statements from and videos with the EN CEO explaining all this in greater detail.

[DTLow 4,204]

39 minutes ago, Seraphym said:

Are you a moderator or EN employee, DTLow? I don't see any icons or other designations, but I'm on mobile and might not see the same information as on desktop. 

I am an Evernote user, not an employee.

Employees are clearly identified in the sidebar, near the image

[lhenze 0]

I also would very much like to see the ability to lock notes.   I have a new Android device on which I've installed evernote but I'm afraid to use evernote on it because my precious notes feel too vulnerable there!

 

 

[PinkElephant 551]

As a Premium member, you can delete, what you like - you can always go to note history and restore a former status of the note. Only thing: The note must have been saved once, and been synced to the EN server.

The note history is always running, for BASIC users as well - but access and restore is restricted to the paying accounts. If somebody on BASIC is afraid to have lost something, one can go for one month to PREMIUM, and restore, because the note history will have covered as well what has happened before.

I am using 70% of my EN time my iPad, and have not lost a single note up to now. And if: Note history !

For me, the reason for locking notes is more with shared or business notebooks. There you can control it on a notebook level, but not note by note.

[UncleRic 10]

True enough.
But why isn't merely locking a single note a basic function across whatever plans the patron has?
It's merely neutering the ability to delete or modify via a toggle.
We could have BOTH history AND permanency. ☝️

[DTLow 4,204]

2 hours ago, UncleRic said:

But why isn't merely locking a single note a basic function across whatever plans the patron has?
It's merely neutering the ability to delete or modify via a toggle.
We could have BOTH history AND permanency. ☝️

There is a basic note lock function, not connected to any plans.  However Evernote has not given us access to the toggle.

I use third party Filterize to toggle notes read-only and non-deletable

[UncleRic 10]

4 minutes ago, DTLow said:

There is a basic note lock function, not connected to any plans.  However Evernote has not given us access to the toggle.

I use the feature from Filterize to toggle notes read-only and non-deletable

... interesting.
Why hasn't Evernote given us access to a toggle?

[s2sailor 808]

10 minutes ago, DTLow said:

There is a basic note lock function, not connected to any plans.  

It is used in shared notes.  When sharing you can select edit or just read capability.  The read only ones are locked.  I agree it would be nice if this function was exposed for all notes.

[PinkElephant 551]

Sure it would be nice (got my vote as well). Since the toggle can be switched through the API, apps like Filterize allow for this already today - but for an additional price.

You can find the description of how-to somewhere higher up in this thread.

[FredJ 2]

I have a note that locks up, trying to go into edit of the note, and it hangs.
(well i actually have several, that hang on my mobile devices, ok on mac)
(a lot of them are scrapes of websites / web pages)...

PLEASE allow me to set to read-only and "not" go into edit mode, no need to.

I imagine if it doesn't try to edit, the note might just easily be "read"

 

 

 

 

[. . . 2]

Read only is nice, write only would be nicer, (add only)

[DTLow 4,204]

1 hour ago, . . . said:

Read only is nice, write only would be nicer, (add only)

Does this mean delete protection?

Its a feature offered by third party Filterize.  It monitors protected notes; if in the trash, they are restored.

[UncleRic 10]

I'm not looking for 3rd-party solutions to 'read-only' status.

This should be a basic property of ANY Evernote doc.

Think about the plethora of legal documentation, etc. that users import into their EverNote apps.

Most of these notes are to used as reference, without desire to accidentally alter or remove them.

Having to rely of restoration and/or 3rd-party means is an unnecessary hassle.
All that is needed is a write on/off (default) toggle somewhere in the menubar.

 

[DTLow 4,204]

1 hour ago, UncleRic said:

I'm not looking for 3rd-party solutions to 'read-only' status.

  🙈   For myself, I'm willing to look at any solutions to protect the integrity of my notes

[Rizputin 1]

I cannot believe this has been requested for 5+ years. Seriously? Low effort, high reward. 

[Yuzpepper 1]

It‘s almost insane. In this 5 years, they have been developing so many other features. But about this, nothing has been done.

We might should be get angry on this. Is there any way to make them get attention to this??

[UncleRic 10]

I assume some Evernote™ engineer is monitoring this discussion so I believe EverNote is aware.
That's why we have the Evernote™ forum.

Well obviously.... no movement in a half decade; which is NOT acceptable.

My guess the only way is to complain on either feedback or contact a human within EverNote and complain.

I think I'll do it... being that this forum hasn't produced anything that I value.

... Evernote has a few Facebook accounts (I've checked).

I think I'll ***** in PUBLIC.

 

[PinkElephant 551]

Most people posting here are on a paying a count.

So who is hindering you to go ahead and swamp support with this feature request ?

Here somebody from EN Amy listen in - at Support they get paid to do so.

P.S. Just to get this right: I think this is a good request, and have added my vote to the basket quite a while ago.

[UncleRic 10]

I've been a fully paid user for the past half decade or so.

The Evernote™ team hasn't given me (us) a followup on our request to have a convenient toggle to lock the document versus the the half-ass way recovering from history or via a 3rd-party hack.   I think it's a dereliction of duty.

Hence I've subscribed to the Facebook community and shall bring this concern out in the open.

 

Ric.

 

[DTLow 4,204]

33 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

swamp support with this feature request

Evernote Support does not take feature requests; their function is to support users with issues
They'll probably refer you back to this forum

I've also added my vote to the request; vote button is at the top left corner of the discussion.

I'm sure that Evernote management has noted the request, but don't consider it a priority at this time

[PinkElephant 551]

I agree to your evaluation that this is probably not the top priority.

Regarding support: I think there is a field of customer requests that can be viewed as a bug complaint, or as a feature request.

Way back in my career I hat the opportunity to run a customer service, not in IT but in some smokestack industry. But the issues were not that different, if you put the technical issues aside. My goal as the manager of this entity was always to get input from the customers not only about what is working / or not, but as well about what could / should be improved.

So why not make a little virtual flash mob, and get something to the attention of the Helpdesk guys ?

[UncleRic 10]

I had also raise this issue on one of Evernote's Facebook forums.

I don't have the time to do Evernote's job....

.... there is a DEMAND for this feature.

 

Perhaps I'll have to vote down my critique of Evernote due to this missing featue.

🤔

[EWest 3]

Just chiming in again to reiterate that I still regard this feature as a must-have. Accidental keystrokes while referring to old notes are a major concern for me. Evernote's familiarity, helpful support team, and convenient image editing features have been a barrier to switching, but OneNote is looking more tempting every day that I can't protect my notes by making them read-only.

[FredJ 2]

OneNote can't hold a candle to Evernote, BUT, that being said, I'm very disappointed this IMPORTANT feature seems to be getting NO ATTENTION from the development team.

PLEASE IMPLEMENT THIS... OK, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN.... PLEASE!!!

[UncleRic 10]

Best if you contact Evernote engineers directly; if not their salesmen.

I tried to get their attention via their Facebook page to no avail.

 

Ric.

[DTLow 4,204]

2 hours ago, UncleRic said:

Best if you contact Evernote engineers directly; if not their salesmen.

imho  Best to let Evernote Management know of your support for this request
They make the decisions on development priorities

To indicate your support, use the vote button at the top left corner of the discussion

There's currently   votes

In the meantime, I use the Filterize service to make my notes read-only

[jefito 5,500]

1 hour ago, UncleRic said:

Best if you contact Evernote engineers directly; if not their salesmen.

??? Wouldn't work in any of the companies I've ever worked for. Neither of the sales folk nor the engineers set Evernote priorities. They both may participate in the process: customer demand and implementation feasibility go into the equation, but even so, it Evernote management that makes the final call.

[UncleRic 10]

I shall contact Management.

I suggest others do as well.... put some pressure on them.

What's the purpose of having a forum if the Management is unaware of the demand?

[DTLow 4,204]

33 minutes ago, UncleRic said:

I shall contact Management.

I suggest others do as well.... put some pressure on them.

You are already posting in a forum set up by Evernote Management to solicit user feedback

>>What's the purpose of having a forum if the Management is unaware of the demand?

I'm sure they are aware of all the posted requests

Why do you think they are unaware of this request?

Why do you think this request should have higher priority than other development work?

[jefito 5,500]

1 hour ago, UncleRic said:

I shall contact Management.

I suggest others do as well.... put some pressure on them.

What's the purpose of having a forum if the Management is unaware of the demand?

What makes you think that Evernote management is not aware of demand for this and other features? I can assure you they are. You might head on over to the recent "Behind the Scenes Series" subforum and check out the videos that star Evernote's CEO to see the depth of his engagement with the product and awareness of user pain points.

But if you think that contacting management directly is going to make them more aware than they already are, then go for it..

[Yuzpepper 1]

5 hours ago, DTLow said:

You are already posting in a forum set up by Evernote Management to solicit user feedbacK

I'm sure they are aware of all the posted requests

I don’t think so. Generally, management only knows whole numbers of requests and it’s progress. They don’t have time to check every posts. 

 I know there many other requests and they have their priority. But all we want to say is that it’s has been 8 years......, really?

[jefito 5,500]

15 hours ago, Yuzpepper said:

I don’t think so. Generally, management only knows whole numbers of requests and it’s progress. They don’t have time to check every posts.

All they need is the general idea. Not much new has been added since early on in the discussion (typical for long-running topics like this one), and the whole of the request is easily summarizable. A summary  plus some indication of user desire (post counts here and on other request sources) plus some notion of feasibility/implementation cost (which would be internal to Evernote) is all that's needed for prioritization.

15 hours ago, Yuzpepper said:

I know there many other requests and they have their priority. But all we want to say is that it’s has been 8 years......, really?

Which you're perfectly welcome to do. But this is exactly the sort of post that really doesn't add much to the actual prioritization process, except for maybe a +1 on the request count. As long as the folks assigned to monitor the forums are doing their jobs, there's no real need for the decision makers to read everything.

[jjsc 0]

+1 i've accidently deleted things and didnt know it.  

[lemontree 0]

+1

[Yuzpepper 1]

Yeah, read only tag option might be easy to implement. We have been waiting long enough.

[DTLow 4,204]

48 minutes ago, Yuzpepper said:

read only tag option might be easy to implement

Here's my work-around using a read-only tag and third party Filterize

 

[craigivemy 0]

Do we have any news on this much needed feature? Do Evernote ever respond to these requests if they have decided not to implement a certain feature (they'd be crazy not to implement in this case)?

[DTLow 4,204]

49 minutes ago, craigivemy said:

Do we have any news on this much needed feature?

There's a video at this post showing a view/edit switch in the editor

[UncleRic 10]

I haven't receive any info/news about this propose feature.😕

[Sayre Ambrosio 228]

Take a look at the behind the scenes video released two weeks ago. Not sure what platform you are on but something that addresses this issue is being worked on. All features being worked on are supposed to be coming to all platforms, but are being tested on web first and then with the other platforms.

 

 

[Yuzpepper 1]

6 minutes ago, Sayre Ambrosio said:

Take a look at the behind the scenes video released two weeks ago. Not sure what platform you are on but something that addresses this issue is being worked on. All features being worked on are supposed to be coming to all platforms, but are being tested on web first and then with the other platforms.

 

 

Thanks for sharing. Good to know. Not exactly what we’ve been waiting for, But it should relieve our anxiety on unintentional changes.

[pendolino 6]

I’ve been looking for EN to add this forever and I’ve pretty much given up. 
 

so I’d love to know what others recommend as the closest Evernote alternative that offers this feature? I think I’m done with EN

[DTLow 4,204]

4 hours ago, pendolino said:

I’ve been looking for EN to add this forever and I’ve pretty much given up. 
so I’d love to know what others recommend as the closest Evernote alternative that offers this feature? I think I’m done with EN

We do not need another discussion thread on this
Go to the topic linked here https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/118497-looking-for-an-evernote-alternative-probably-found-the-closest-option/    
There are plenty of recommendations

[Doggy Dog 1]

2020 and still no update : (

[Yuzpepper 1]

At least, they can give us some feedback, can’t they? It’s just a few minutes. 

I believe we deserve it...

[CalS 4,075]

Well, the deafening silence is feedback of a sort.