ScottLougheed

Only allowing encryption on local notebook is not a viable option, I left NeatReceipts to go to the cloud and now that I am thinking about putting confidential information into Evernote, encryption would be key. I understand why EverNote doesn't want to give us this ability, but we should still keep pushing for it.

 

Maybe they will throw us a bone and allow us to encrypt and protect specific notes/documents via an encryption password that would be only known to the user.....we all understand that encryption can be broken, but a targeted attack would be unlikely......an attack that grabs unencrypted data will happen, it is only a matter of time.

 

EverNote, give us some level of protection for our sensitive data

1) It is not clear to me that DOESN'T want us to encrypt our data. Granted, encrypting our data with no serverside knowledge of the encryption would prevent any server side services like OCR.... but again I don't think Evernote is against the possibility of users encrypting. 

2) Evernote does give us some level of protection for our sensitive data. In the desktop clients users can select any amount of text and encrypt it. Web and mobile apps can decrypt any encrypted text. So, they do give SOME protection.

3) I imagine increasing security is on Evernote's radar, especially with their push into business, but offering the server side processing and cross-platform features they do will be hard to juggle with intensification of encryption, so it is not something that they can just jump into willy nilly. 

Evernote is tight-lipped about their development plans so whether they are working on more or not is mostly a matter of just waiting and seeing. 

There are some challenges with export due to the richness and variability in note content. Plain and rich text are reasonably easy to export, but web clippings and other stuff that might have some underlying HTML is a bit more of a challenge. The HTML and XML are the most straightforward because the results will almost always be predictable regardless of content. Pages is especially hard since it is a highly proprietary format and Word is not much better, and both will very likely produce highly inconsistent and likely terribly erroneous results with most things that aren't just straightforward plain text. This could be extremely frustrating from a UX standpoint, as users expect their notes to look more or less the same on export, but in the end some might look terrible! Then begins the trial and error process of figuring out how to manipulate the troublesome note so that it exports properly, and probably failing at that. 

The exception is that you could likely get HTML exported files into Word without much fuss, then from there into just about anything else, but the workflow might be a bit onerous. 

I think direct PDF exporting would be the most likely pursuit because PDFs can reasonably faithfully reproduce the rich content often found in notes and is almost universally readable (editability is a different matter, but it sounds like you and many others are not too concerned about editing, more about viewing/sharing/read-only archiving). Evernote is ALMOST there in this respect, since you can already print individual notes to PDF. It would be great to be able to do this in a batch and end up with a PDF containing all the selected notes. 

So, in the meantime, if you want to get a bunch of notes into a single PDF, here's a few workarounds that come to mind:

1)Merge and print

Select all the notes you want to archive, copy them to a new, temporary notebook. In this new notebook using the copies, MERGE them all into a single note. Print as a PDF this single note containing all the notes. Then delete the originals or the merged note, or both, or whatever suits your needs. 

Troubles: The order of notes upon merging is a bit haphazard, I believe it is dictated either by the date created or date updated. If you are merging a small number of notes, this is relatively easily manipulated by hand to dictate merge order. If you have a large number of notes, it's a real pain. 

2) Select all notes, print as individual PDFs, combine in external application

Select all the notes you want to bind together. On mac, you can just select print/cmd-p and it will bring up a single dialogue box no matter how many notes you have selected. Print these to a PDF and you will end up with one PDF per note, with the note title as the file name. Using an external application (such as Preview on Mac, not sure about windows. Perhaps Adobe Reader, but Acrobat sure could. PDF Expert on iPad would do this well too) combine these separate PDFs into a single PDF file. 

This is likely the best option as you can use note titles to sort the order of the resultant PDF, it will not manipulate your formatting (merging as in (1) adds header text for each merged note), and you can take advantage of any optimization features in your external PDF application.  

Hope this helps a bit!

I currently have over 500 notes on my Apple desktop computer in the app notes.

 

I want to move them into Evernote, as separate notes.

 

Having looked at the steps above, 

 

1. I can not get the Notes into my Mailbox, unless I do each one manually.

 

I think it may be the Maverick iOS edition as there is no option for showing notes in Mail.

 

 

Please could someone advise me on how I can get these Apple Notes on to Mail, then Mail to Evernote.

Thanks

You should be able to use d.b.walker's applescript posted in this very thread (two posts above yours). https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/4046-importing-from-apple-mailapps-notes/?p=236445

Can you describe what you see instead? A totally blank note? An attachment icon?

Yes I have to agree that being able to load a PDF into Penultimate for annotating would be great. It has been discussed elsewhere so I imagine Evernote staff are aware of the desire among users. 

I suppose for me, while Penultimate seems like the most logical location for this feature, I'd be happy no matter where the feature was implemented. 

Unless you changed it, it should be:

C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local\Evernote\Evernote\Databases

Coincidentally, nearly a year ago I made the very same suggestion:

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/38804-hotkey-for-adding-reminder-to-note-in-mac-client/

I agree, at least adding a menubar item so we can set up the hotkey ourselves (system preferences>keyboard>shortcuts) would be great. 

Have you tried (completely) uninstalling Evernote from your windows machine and re-installing it? (Make sure you backup your notes first just in case!) 

Are you absolutely sure that are logged into the same account on your windows machine?

When you log into the web interface at http://www.evernote.com do your notes appear? 

+1

Evernote, please add full-notebook encryption. 

 

I'm a lawyer.  The law on attorney-client and work product privilege requires me to keep client information confidential.  If there's no encryption, and my notes are in plaintext, I can't guarantee that doesn't break privilege.  This is the case for every lawyer in the US, so until you add full-notebook encryption, using your product for serious work puts us and our clients at risk.  The limited encryption you do offer is cumbersome and it breaks search--sufficiently crippled so as to make the whole product not worth it.

 

While I agree with and support your request as a fellow user who also handles confidential data, it is not Evernote that is putting your clients at risk, it is you who is putting your clients at risk by using Evernote. For data that is this sensitive, there are other alternatives. 

If you are on a mac cmd-opt-v would paste without source formatting. (I imagine ctrl-alt-v would be the Windows counterpart, Gazumped might confirm this??)

Yeah I think that's really the idea. As much as we all wish, you gotta go with the shoe that fits best, because that perfect shoe just isn't out there, unless you make it yourself... 

This request has been made so many times.  There must be some business reason they are refusing to do it.

 

The number of times someone has given long involved direction involving some other App is silly.

Workarounds are a drag, but for whatever reason, Evernote has chosen not to provide an easy way of doing plain text natively. There is no doubt that Evernote is aware that some users are requesting this feature, so It's always possible we might see a change to the editor in the future, but until then, we either put up with the current editor, or use a janky workaround.

The response from Evernote support seems sensible to me. 

iOS, the operating system that runs on iPads and iPhones and iPod touches and is created by Apple, has "Data detectors". These data detectors look for sequences of characters that may resemble phone numbers, addresses, dates, package tracking numbers, etc. This means that you can simply tap a phone number and have it dial that number (rather than copying the number, opening the Phone app, pasting the number, and initiating the call), or tap a tracking number to immediately load the tracking website, or select a date to bring up a new event at that date and time. 

When these work, they are great, but sometimes it produces false positives, such as Social Insurance Numbers or Social Security Numbers interpreted as phone numbers. Now, these false positives are pretty benign because there is not real modification of the text being applied (which is why these things don't show up as highlighted on other clients). 

These data detectors are applied globally - that is, they are done at the level of the operating system. There is no facility that allows Evernote to include a setting in their own app to allow a user to turn it off.

Also, Apple (and presumably Google, though I don't own an android device) doesn't offer the user a global setting either, so it cannot be turned off on a global basis. 

Annoying though it may be, there's no real harm being done. Any string that is highlighted can be copied by long-tapping it. These are also not changes written into the text, so if you send it to someone else or view it on a different device, the formatting (say, blue text with underline) is not going to display either. 

The suggestion to remove images upon clipping is interesting, I can definitely see how that could be useful for articles where images are sprinkled in with text.

As a workaround, try selecting just the desired text before invoking the clipper (hard if the article has in-line images). 

There is no way I know to easily view the HTML of a note in Evernote. The only way I can think of at the moment is to export an individual note as "html" and open in a text editor. 

Cheers, glad I you found a workaround!

I don't know about windows, but on the Mac client (and the Evernote Web client when accessed on a Mac) allows you to:

1) Select text

2) right click on selection

3)Transformations>Upper Case/Lower Case/Capitalize

This allows you to convert the selected text to ALL CAPS all lowercase or Title Case. 

Hi Rextilleon,

I think you hit the nail on the head. They do their best to optimize their application for the widest possible variety of use cases, but inevitably there are shortcomings of one type or another. These could be related to hardware/OS limitations, or unanticipated use cases, or extreme difficulty in implementing the feature (especially across platforms, and often times it is minor or seemingly simple features that can be the most troublesome!), or because they simply do not see Evernote as being the optimal application/service for a particular use case and would rather not complicate it unnecessarily. 

Now, if you or I could develop the program of our dreams, that would really be something! Alas, we must work with someone else's vision of what the software ought to be which will always fall short here or there, no matter how good the developer is.

Glad you enjoy Evernote and the community here is always happy to help or just "talk shop" about Evernote!

well perhaps one day it will be easier to bulk-share notebooks. Unfortunately Evernote doesn't publish their roadmap so we can only speculate! We'll just have to wait and see. 
 

That being said I don't imagine it will be high-priority. Sharing is really a one-time deal, you don't have to continually re-share. That being said, if you are needing to share something like 5 or more notebooks, I can see how that can be frustrating, but again, at least once it is done, it's done!

While this is only speculation, one reason why this may not be implemented is that it would essentially prohibit shared users from implementing their own stack organization on notebooks they are invited to. 

For example, lets say you are part of a group with several concurrent projects (project A, B, and C). You have a notebook for each project, plus a general group notebook. 

You might be inclined to make a stack "Group", and share the whole deal with your users, who will all then have this stack. 

But what if Jacob wants Project B in a different stack, or wants the group notebook in a different stack from the project notebooks?

Perhaps the biggest issue is, what happens if you add Polly to the group, but she's only involved in Project A and Project C? Then you'd have t o independently share just those notebooks with her and NOT the stack. So everyone else gets the stack but Polly gets individual notebooks. But then Lauren gets added and she's Project B only at first, but then joint projects A and C.

So what do you do with Polly? Share each individual notebook, or do you revoke access to Project B then invite her to the stack?

Too complicated for little benefit. If your organization is this complex, the additional features of Evernote Business may be worthwhile. 

I agree a renewal notice for annual subscriptions would be an easy and non-instrusive way to helping users keep on top of things, but I don't know if I'd go as far as to say this is sneaky. 

Alternatively, you could always use Evernote to store a copy of your receipt and set a reminder 

If you are on the mac you can try cmd-opt-shift-v  to paste without formatting (or with simplified formatting, or with destination's formatting). That may help in SOME cases.