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Grumpymonkey, I checked out your public notebook and it made me want to cry.  It is so so sad that someone who has invested in technology in the classroom the way you have has to fold it all. Shame on Evernote. Who in the hell was sitting in that conference room and thought it was a good idea to take away this feature just like that? Shame on them.

Very glad that they listened and rolled this feature back, but I am concerned it and other features I use everyday could disappear in future. The shared note features is one of my primary reasons for using Evernote and I had hoped to expand this to notebooks of my training content.

 

But now I am hesitant to write the content in Evenote if I won't be able to share the notebook I am creating it in.

Exactly. The damage is done and I don't trust them anymore. Especially given that they are rolling it back temporarily until they decide to take it away again. Are we supposed to invest our time in creating content for a public notebook just to have them take it away again?  I get the impression that the rolling back may have been just to appease us for a while, in that "this will shut them up for a little while and then we will just announce it before taking it away again next month, or within a year, or next year..."  Or maybe they will switch that feature over to the business accounts, which amounts to the same thing, really.

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....

Indeed, Notebooks that were made public before the change are still accessible, or are supposed to be.  I had two public notebooks, one of which is no longer available. I've got a ticket open about why that is, as both should still be available. Until support figures this out, you might want to double-check all of your public notebooks to ensure their urls still work. The one I have that doesn't work was created about 4 to 5 days before the change, and had a single note in it. I don't know if that is relevant, but if you have a made a notebook public very recently or have one with a single note in it, perhaps you can tell me if it still works.

Hmm. Slightly off topic, but freyja313 it is odd that your link to your public notebook still works. I was told by customer support that they have removed the ability to make a notebook public when i noticed that my link was no longer working.

You can see my comments and Support's response here:  https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/65731-sharing-notebook-with-a-public-link/?locale=en

zgoude, I am pretty angry at Evernote right at the moment, so apologies if I sound like I'm ranting BUT Evernote just removed the ability to make a notebook public without telling any of us. I was quite embarrassed when members of a community advised me this morning that my link no longer worked. And then when I went to re-share the notebook, the ability to create a link to it was gone.  Customer Support got back to me a few minutes ago with this:

Yes we informed today that there has been a changed to the option to offer Public Notebook URL's, we have decided that for security we would require for Users to share that notebook individually. That option would be located below generally where you would obtain and copy the link to the Public URL. You would now just need to add each E-Mail of each user that you wish to share that information with, ensure it is the E-Mail associated with their Evernote account.

This will also help with regulating who has access to your information. Giving you more control and security over your information.

Well, I'm sorry, but making something public is not the same as sharing with a few people's email.  If I wanted that option I would have selected it. As for security concerns, what are those concerns? Why wasn't I told about them, and why can't I choose for myself? 

It is such bad form for a software company to remove functionality especially without advising its paid users. 

I am very upset with Evernote right now. Not just because of what they have done but how they went about it.  Very upset indeed.

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