Dani CS

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I will pursue the "contact support" approach that you suggest.

Well that was fast. As per the attachment, there is no such thing as "contact support" for my account.

So I'm skipping that step and contacting Evernote's Data Protection Officer now.

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No provider is obliged to offer fully automatic export solutions for every remote platform that may exist.

I respectfully disagree. The text of the law is rather easy to read: The end-user has the right to "receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format." This imposes exactly zero burden to support any "remote platforms" so let's ignore your red herring.

I am expecting to find something identical to Google Takeout, Facebook Takeout, Amazon Takeout, where I click on a link and I am provided with a .zip file containing *all* my data.

I understand from the lack of clear answers here that such a feature is still missing in Evernote for end-users, in contradiction with Evernote's official commitment to data portability.

I will pursue the "contact support" approach that you suggest.

Thanks for your interest.

Hello all,

I've read through this thread. Thanks all for your contributions.

I've also read the "3 Laws Of Data Protection" page at the official Evernote site. Quote: "We are committed to making it straightforward for you to get all of your data into, and out of, Evernote at any time."

Also, considering I am an EU citizen and the law gives me a Right to Portability (quoting Evernote official statement: "You can export your information from Evernote to a competing service.")

Noting also that I use Evernote exclusively on an Android phone and on the web, because Evernote does not provide any native client for my desktop/laptop.

I am still unable to understand what button to click to download a *full* dump of all my notes, with their complete data and metadata. (Ie. not losing valuable info such as which notebook each note is at.)

Have I missed something, or is the official state of things that such feature does not exist as part of Evernote end-user interfaces?

Thanks!

Upvoted. We've been asking for this since 2011 at least.

1 hour ago, gazumped said:

IME in multiple companies,  one of the fastest ways to render a reference database totally unusable is to have too many independent 'owners'.  The best compromise I ever ran was to have a small group of a dozen 'mentors' with whom we agreed a set of data control goals  Over a period they trained around 300 users how to submit new entries,  which went to an offline 'holding' area until vetted and passed by a mentor.  Their job was to make sure the entry complied with the various standards we had set up and went in the correct 'notebook'.  Even so I'd find myself beating up around one mentor each week for allowing something through. (Ah the good old days...)

IMHO it would be incredibly dumb to have someone else - especially several someone elses - able to mess with your data,  but it's your account...  you're paynig..  (although if the extra bodies manage to blow your upload allowance you won't necessarily be able to use it sometimes...)

Most of your concerns would be addressed by Evernote Business which has central libraries available to all and multiple users - though even EB users I've spoken to moan about the problems of controlling tag use....

As I said before, I am not a paying customer of Evernote.

It is certainly dumb to "let others mess with your data" in an enterprise setting with hundreds of users and with appointed curators/mentors. That's not the real life scenario that everyone else in this thread is painting. 

I, for one, would gladly give Evernote my money and become a paying customer, if they take action to satisfy this "let someone else mess with my data" request.

On 11/7/2016 at 2:22 AM, gazumped said:

Hi.  You may want to find a different sharing option then - Evernote protects account owners' interests by not allowing third parties to mess with their data unless the owner has invited them to do so by editing/ adding content - strictly using the account owner's existing notebooks and tags.  That's the way it works.  It's not a bug,  it's a designed-in protection.

You misunderstood the point. In my scenario, there is no need to "protect account owner's interest," and there are no "third parties to mess with the data."

I simply need one notebook to have two owners, who can both do absolutely all possible actions on the notebook, including creating new tags for use in the notebook. This is the feature I am willing to pay for

Basic user, considering becoming a paying customer. The only way I will become a paying customer is if the Evernote team acknowledges this issue and provides a fix.

When I share a notebook, I want the receiver to be able to do any action that I can do myself as a owner (with the single exception of revoking my access to the notebook).