HerbEppel

2 hours ago, Boot17 said:

Nope. Not possible to disable auto-save. Even if you go offline and make an accidental change -- it is going to change it and then sync it once you come back online like Dave mentioned.

To guard against accidental updates on mobile only you can go to Settings -> Notes -> Edit protection and turn that setting on for all notes. You then have to click the blue 'Edit' button or double-tap the note to make a change.

There are several forum threads requesting a feature for Desktop and Web Evernote to have an Edit protection mode like mobile -- or to be able to set individual notes or notebooks to 'Read-Only' -- but those features don't exist now. Evernote has made no mention if they plan to add that in the future AFAIK.

Best you can do for Desktop and Web is to 'Undo' the inadvertent change, but if you only notice it later after you've navigated away from the note and come back then you'd have to restore the note to a previous version in the history (but you have to have a Personal subscription or better for that).

Thanks for your comprehensive and helpful reply 👍

I've now enabled "Edit protection" on my phone, which will certainly help to avoid 'accidents' in future.

Astonishing that such a basic option isn't available for Desktop, but thanks for the reminder of the 'Undo' option and indeed for mentioning the "Note history" feature, which I wasn't aware of.

No doubt this has been discussed before but I couldn't find it in the archive, so apologies in advance for repetition ...

I keep making inadvertent unwanted changes in my notes and would therefore like to disable autosave but don't see how.

Surely it must be possible to disable autosave, no? 🤔

Thank you.

4 hours ago, gazumped said:

Anything would be more user-friendly than the shard link,  but isn't a link like AlanTitchmarshLeafBlowers a reasonable compromise?  You could suggest a user definable option in an Ideas forum...

Yes, thanks, that works OK in emails but not elsewhere, e.g. WhatsApp etc.

Thanks for your quick reply, but it isn't quite what I had in mind.

Here is an example of one of my recent notes:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s43/sh/829c10a4-95c9-6d02-34fe-a2dff205bf93/2dfa9c0cd39f0d7620d7d0235c9bbbb3

With Bitly I can give it a short, meaningful name like this:
https://bit.ly/AlanTitchmarshLeafBlowers

It would be great if Evernote had an in-built facility for creating such links, i.e. of the form
https://www.evernote.com/CustomName or perhaps
https://www.evernote.com/shared/CustomName

Is it possible to create meaningful (rather than random) names for shareable links, without having to use a third-party service such as Bitly?

Thank you.

I just rediscovered the "snippet preview" suggestion, which I made more than two years ago. Perhaps it has been introduced in the meantime?

Thank you.

Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslations.uk

The Evernote app offers several useful View options. e.g. Card View, which don't appear to be available in the Evernote web interface.

It would be helpful to have these options, in particular Card View, available in the web interface, too.

Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslations.uk

I tried Evernote a couple of years ago but couldn't quite get the hang
of it. I recently tried it again and was so impressed that I upgraded to Premium just now.

One thing that appears to be missing is the kind of web page "snippet
preview" one gets in apps such as WhatsApp and FaceBook when one pastes a web link, if you see what I mean? See attached example screenshot.