EvaluatingEvernote

Not necessarily. As long as someone's in a position to argue that they should have access to your note history, then in some cases that will be sufficient. It's not a question of who has your login credentials. Arguments to access note history in non-criminal situations are vast and becoming more common. Something that may seem unrelated but could be construed as having implications for separate decisions you or others made, for example. You'd be surprised. Or, better yet, avoid being surprised, and instead start to embrace end-to-end encryption.

I did what you suggested above, twice. In both cases, there was only one previous version in the note history, and that version of the note had only the note's title, nothing else. And, in both cases, the encrypted text was not in the note history. So, I guess for users who will go to the trouble of disconnecting from the network before writing a sensitive note, then that will work, but that type of workaround is clearly an indication that Evernote is not the right product for anyone who has any notes that are even remotely sensitive. More realistically, users won't decide a note is sensitive until after it's written, and they'll probably write it while connected to the Internet (while on a Zoom call, for example), so the opportunity to keep the note private is basically gone forever since Evernote will have it, well, forever. Like some of you, when I used to see messages like mine above, I rolled my eyes and thought, "How silly, what do they have to hide?" Well, for various reasons I'm now completely in the other camp and now fully understand why something we didn't think needs to be hidden really does need to be hidden. Better safe than sorry is an understatement, and you shouldn't learn that until after it's too late. As much as I wanted to go back to Evernote, and even embraced the new version that so many loyal users seem to dislike, I'm afraid I have to look for an alternative.

Interesting. But for new users who assume that the latest Evernote is the best Evernote, or who simply don't want to onboard to a legacy product, then those users (including me) will have the illusion of secure text when it's encrypted, but really it's not secure.

Very interesting. Indeed, I just created a test note, then minutes later encrypted some of its text, then a while later was able to restore the version of the note before the text was encrypted, and in fact the text I wanted to be hidden was plainly visible again. This makes the encryption feature far less secure than one would imagine, and seems to defeat the purpose of even having such a feature. I wonder how many users realize that their encrypted text is so easily discoverable.

Thank you, but I don't understand what you mean by "the Note History backup is perpetual." Does that mean that EVERY version of every note is perpetually retained? Or that as each note is changed it's again backed up (and writes over the old note?)? I think this would be very helpful for all interested users to fully understand just how secure their encrypted text is, so your help answering this is greatly appreciated.

If I have text in a note, and don't encrypt it for a while (hours, days, weeks, whatever), but then finally encrypt it, does that mean that Evernote still has on its servers the discoverable text from when it wasn't encrypted? And, if it's still on Evernote's servers, then after it's encrypted, when will it drop off Evernote's servers?

Sorry. I meant notebooks, not folders. And it doesn't say anywhere that stacks should automatically expand, I just assumed it was obvious that they should expand. Sorry.

But it doesn't. For example, if in my Notes list I drag notes from that list to drop them onto folders, the stacks don't automatically expand to reveal the folders. That's a problem since then I have to abort the drag and drop, manually expand the stack, and then resume the process. Please fix. Thank you.

Thank you. However, smart quotes are not "elaborate text," and such a normal feature does not require bloatware. I fully understand that Evernote is for notes, but often what starts as a note ends up as something more, and having to fix quotation marks is silly.

Yes, I mean like what you show in your example. Any proper text editor should do smart quotes automatically, so it's not good that Evernote lacks such an automatic feature. Please describe how a text expander might help with this and the expander you recommend. Thank you!

How can smart (curly) quotation marks be enabled for the Windows app? Without smart quotes, it's a burdensome editor since straight quotes are not proper. Thank you.

Thank you. Installing 10.6 resolved the issue.

I'm using 10.5.7. After pinning Evernote to the taskbar, it's there, but you can't see it. You have to mouse over it to know it's there. Then, after running it, and closing it, it's no longer pinned to the taskbar. A true bug and one that should be fixed quickly, please. I've never seen such an obvious bug with an app.