If I understand correctly, the user icon up top only appears if you have logged into your account from atleast two devices (say from your PC and Phone), then it will show up with your pfp and the cursor location with your name.
The catch is, I saw it when I was ONLY using my phone. Yes, the app wasn't even open on my PC as in not even in the background.
These are the only two devices I use and have NOT shared my account with anyone.
The cursor position was not where I was typing (above it, on the heading of that note) and it moved to another location before the user icon disappeared.
This got me sh*t scared.
To confirm my doubt, I launched the app on my desktop and tried to place my cursor and observe on mobile.The same thing happened.
- This was not a joke anymore.
The number of devices my free plan can be linked to is already saturated so it CANNOT be a malicious actor who is remotely viewing my account via possibly leaked credentials (although that is unlikely since I never logged into it in a public PC, use a randomized strong password and store it in Bitwarden).
I was really concerned but since it was a one off, I thought that maybe it was a weird bug.
Still, just to mess around under the assumption that someone at Evernote had access, I wrote down my thoughts at the moment in that very note.
"I know you're looking at it! Who are you? Evernote Employee?"
There was no activity so I started getting real aggressive.
I wrote down derogatory comments and tried to provoke REAL HARD (in the off chance someone was snooping in).
It sent chills down my spine. The cursor and icon appeared again. They navigated to different parts of the text and jumped around. It stayed there for a good while so I took a few screenshots.
I know that it won't conclusively work as proof but that was all I could do at this point.
The second confirmation especially after me writing all this made me panic bad.
Afterwards, the colour ring around the icon changed and I've took a screenshot, in which two users with my pfp can be seen simultaneously! How?! Keep in mind, that I had closed the desktop app by now.
This happened for a couple of mins more after which I immediately took a backup of all my notebooks.
I don't know if deleting them from Evernote will do any good at this point.
I have attached all the screenshots with the note content and my name redacted for privacy reasons.
Such an occurrence has never happened with me before.
I am really furious and anxious.
I did NOT expect something like this to happen. No one would've.
I highly doubt this is a bug because of the cursor moment, timing of events and appearance of two users afterwards.