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ScottLougheed

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  1. I can confirm that existing public notes and notebooks still work, at least for now. It looks like public notes can still be made too, at least for now. It would seem that only public notebooks got the axe, at least as far as I can infer from the support response posted above and from experimenting. Without an official public announcement though, all we have is inference....
  2. Gazumped is a fellow user, not an Evernote employee, and therefor has nothing to do with fixing your problem. I remember seeing a bug ages ago (last fall, or perhaps this winter...?) in which, on iOS, the wrong note body would be displayed. But that issue had been resolved earlier this year. As to why it occurred with you, using presumably the most up-to-date version of EN for iOS, is a stumper. Looks like it was a short-term quirk that has resolved itself. It's a shame it occurred at such a critical moment. Good opportunity to learn to always have some type of backup. (Evernote should also consider revisiting a mobile web interface which could have saved your butt in this instance... But they ditched that a while back, unfortunately). Remember, we are your fellow users, not employees of Evernote. NOT employees. Whether you want to explain your problem to us fellow users again or not is up to you, but be nice to us, we didn't write, design, or provide the customer support for the application you are struggling with, we are struggling right along side you.
  3. Nevertheless, It sounds like the change was made in the interest of security, but it isn't nice for users to get blindsided with changes, even those with good intentions.
  4. This is an unfortunate change. I used public notebooks frequently for various important tasks.... This is a big hit. I also loved viewing some public notebooks created by several EN Ambassadors. The public notebook was a great feature. I wish I had known it had been removed so that I could anticipate the change and modify my workflow appropriately in advance, rather than scramble to change things around and tell my collaborators in the last minute.
  5. This has been elaborated on in great detail in another thread: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/39110-how-do-i-become-an-evernote-ambassador/ See some of the more recent posts for more specific, up to date details.
  6. You'll want to read my post and the links here: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/60060-business-cards-to-contacts/?p=280418
  7. Variations on this have been discussed at length and I think something along these lines could be nice. Here's a recent, related discussion: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/62529-feature-request-secured-or-locked-notes/
  8. Ok so all we need to do is make sure this rumour doesn't make it to the internet! Wait...
  9. I think you hit the nail on the head. For whatever reason, Evernote has chosen to not allow for an elaborate hierarchy. If the flat structure of Evernote works for you, or you can make it work for your needs, great. There are 100 million users who seem to be able to make it work. If you absolutely need hierarchy and are unable to adapt to the flat structure of Evernote (I'm sure there's about 100 million or more people in this camp too), then it seems perfectly rational to move along to something else.
  10. I don't believe the note list can be hidden because it is they only way you can access notes. Some suggestions: 1) Create a notebook dedicated to your personal and private notes so that can isolate them from your work stuff. When at work, simply do not select the personal notebook. 2) double click any given note in the note list to open that note in its own window, which can then be resized to occupy any proportion of the screen you like. Do this with all the notes that may be relevant to a coworker peering over your shoulder and minimize the main Evernote window so it cannot be seen.
  11. That seems to be a correct assessment. Although I haven't looked at what automator/apple script could do here, so I can't say for sure.
  12. Correct. Classic note links paste as Evernote:/// no matter where you paste.
  13. Keep in mind that the new functionality will still paste an evernote:/// link within evernote. So if your pasting destination is evernote itself (such as adding a link in one note to another note), you don't need a classic link. But, I also agree, a keyboard shortcut for classic note links would be great for the times (fairly often) when pasting outside of evernote and the evernote:/// link is desired. Or at least place it as a menu bar item so that we can create a shortcut manually in the Mac system preferences. I mostly use it with omnifocus. So, it would be good to have some kind of access to it (via applescript or keyboard shortcut) so I could automate. Thanks for the reply! I'm the same, I'd say half of my note links are evernote:/// links I paste into my calendar application and my to-do list application (Wunderlist in this case) so a menubar item/hotkey would be ideal for me. In the mean time a few extra clicks isn't a deal breaker, but it's not luxurious either!
  14. Keep in mind that the new functionality will still paste an evernote:/// link within evernote. So if your pasting destination is evernote itself (such as adding a link in one note to another note), you don't need a classic link. But, I also agree, a keyboard shortcut for classic note links would be great for the times (fairly often) when pasting outside of evernote and the evernote:/// link is desired. Or at least place it as a menu bar item so that we can create a shortcut manually in the Mac system preferences.
  15. This is promising (and much-needed). Is there anywhere I could look for more details, or is this more of just a thing that's been mentioned here and there? Just posts here and there. As is typical of Evernote, they are tight lipped, so it is surprising we have as much info as we do on this. We'll just have to hang in there! Once it hits the betas, details will start to appear on the forums.
  16. There haven't been any public statements specifically regarding this behaviour. However, EN staff have commented on these forums that they are reworking the text editor, so this might be something they will address in these revisions, which I am sure we will see sooner rather than later... at least I hope!
  17. Can you give us more details? Are you getting an error message? Are you seeing only some, or none of your Evernote content? Are you absolutely sure you are logged into the same Evernote account? (this happens more often than you'd think!)
  18. 1) You are right, it is applied to the entire body of the note. My mistake! 2) The current release of Evernote for Windows is v5.x so you appear to be one major release behind! 3) THANKS for clarifying the windows hotkey.
  19. try selecting some formatted text and pressing ctrl-alt-f on a windows machine. (NOTE: This has NOTHING to do with pasting. You select existing text, THEN use the key combination)
  20. Doesn't cmd-shift-f work for your needs? Select whatever text you want, cmd-shift-f and POOF the formatting is gone.
  21. I don't think it is too much to ask. I think this could be very useful. There are a few things to consider though. 1) This would mean any data encrypted this way could not benefit from any server-side processing like OCR, or any of the features that require the server-side indexing. 2) This would mean, as you have already noted, that data could be relatively easily lost, which could increase support load and require additional support resources. This isn't a reason not to do it, but it is a reason to be careful about how and when it is implimented. 3) I am not terribly knowledgeable about this kind of stuff, but I wonder if de/encrypting might be difficult to implement on all of the mobile platforms that Evernote supports? As such there would have to be careful consideration about how to negotiate this sort of thing and make sure users are aware that, for example, they might not be able to access their encrypted data on the BB10 devices, or whatever. (AGAIN this is my ignorant speculation!). 4) I suspect decrypting would require that the entire note(book) content be downloaded and (temporarily) stored locally on mobile devices in order to be de/encrypted since this cannot be done server-side. This could be challenging for devices with limited space. It also means that anything encrypted would not be searchable on a mobile device unless it was downloaded in its entirety and then decrypted. Again, none of these are reasons NOT to do it, but the do suggest that there could be some significant complications associated with such a feature, and that less savvy users (and even some savvy users) might encounter some frustrating situations. In the technology world that we live in, very little is not possible......all of these issues can be worked out if it is an area of interest of the vendor. Encrypted data may have to wait for a local sync to the user's computer before indexed and synced back. Users would have to accept the fact that maybe the data processing would have to take place locally as a 2nd stage encryption password may be envied to provide true "zero knowledge". I think we have beaten this topic up enough. I am not sure who reads these blogs at EverNote, but I may reach out to the CTO and make the suggestion. You are right, on a computer, you can rely on local processing (however, Evernote would have to write this into their desktop client, as currently this is all done server side, so this would be a bit of an undertaking). Getting this to work at all on a mobile device will be considerably more challenging. Yes it can be done, perhaps it should be done, but if it is going to happen, it isn't going to happen tomorrow.
  22. I don't think it is too much to ask. I think this could be very useful. There are a few things to consider though. 1) This would mean any data encrypted this way could not benefit from any server-side processing like OCR, or any of the features that require the server-side indexing. 2) This would mean, as you have already noted, that data could be relatively easily lost, which could increase support load and require additional support resources. This isn't a reason not to do it, but it is a reason to be careful about how and when it is implimented. 3) I am not terribly knowledgeable about this kind of stuff, but I wonder if de/encrypting might be difficult to implement on all of the mobile platforms that Evernote supports? As such there would have to be careful consideration about how to negotiate this sort of thing and make sure users are aware that, for example, they might not be able to access their encrypted data on the BB10 devices, or whatever. (AGAIN this is my ignorant speculation!). 4) I suspect decrypting would require that the entire note(book) content be downloaded and (temporarily) stored locally on mobile devices in order to be de/encrypted since this cannot be done server-side. This could be challenging for devices with limited space. It also means that anything encrypted would not be searchable on a mobile device unless it was downloaded in its entirety and then decrypted. Again, none of these are reasons NOT to do it, but the do suggest that there could be some significant complications associated with such a feature, and that less savvy users (and even some savvy users) might encounter some frustrating situations.
  23. As we have seen in the last few years, even some of the most robustly secured cloud services are vulnerable when hacking occurs. This is not to excuse Evernote's current state of security, which is not terribly different than a lot of mainstream cloud providers, and could be improved. Rather what I am saying is that ANY cloud is vulnerable when hacking occurs. In most cases, even highly secured cloud storage services will be compromised, it just takes longer. EDIT (OOPS this time I really did get my posts mixed up!) Keep in mind that data mining and being hacked are two very different types of events. You (and others in this thread) might also be interested in this blog post from several years ago: Evernote's three laws of data protection
  24. Yes, to be absolutely clear, my post was not directed toward you, and I never claimed it was you writing about data mining. I was responding to EvernoteUser78 whose post is directly above mine. And, as BnF suggested, if you are keeping medical notes, I would absolutely NOT put that data in the cloud if it could be avoided. You might consider DEVONThink, which has some facilities for LAN sync, so you can keep several devices in sync via your local network rather than transmitting your data over the internet. Now, you'd have to ensure you have a very secure (hopefully offsite) backup as well, since there is no centralized storage like with Evernote. But, you'd also have to make sure you are complying with whatever regulatory requirements you are bound by with respect to storing patients' data.
  25. I don't believe Evernote does much in the way of data mining. They aren't an ad company like google. Most of their need to access your information is so that it can be processed by their OCR system and any indexin it does on the server. These aren't really revenue generators for them. Your concern about a breach is valid, and Evernote isn't trailing too far behind any other mainstream cloud service provider. Definitely there is room for Evernote and many others to improve, but I really don't think we'll see zero-knowledge encryption, at least not any time soon. Anything that is really that sensitive should perhaps not be out in ANYBODY'S cloud. Even the best of companies have proven to be vulnerable. In the mean time, documents that are sensitive could be encrypted by you before adding to Evernote, that will keep those contents reasonably safe. I am curious thoug, what is it that makes you think Evernote is generating money off users' Evernote contents? Is there something in their terms of service or their privacy policy? Have they started an ad agency a la google that I haven't heard about?
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