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  1. On 7/31/2017 at 1:19 PM, ph.w. said:

    Actually, I didn't mean to insult anyone here. I wanted just to state some facts, one of which is that storing sensitive information in some cloud space is never ever secure unless it is single end-encrypted with a very strong and known encryption tool, before it gets uploaded. If I remember correctly, Evernote asked me amongst 50 million other customers to change my password approximately 2 years ago, because a huge database got stolen? 

     

    Could you be more specific, about what exactly you are considering insulting?

     

    My key points are: Evernote is not providing offline SD-Card support for customers for years now. They are hiding behind excuses nobody can actually reproduce (as do other companies with similar issues, e.g. WhatsApp). They just eat up my internal storage space on my smartphone, although the customer should be king, which is obviously not the case here. Either I am a low priority customer, as for example business clients might make 90 percent of Evernote's customers (I don't know any true numbers), which probably don't need a feature like this as they are using evernote only on their macs/PCs or they don't care so much about buying smartphones with 128 GB internal storage for their employees - or which reason ever, or Evernote has indeed technical problems to store some information internal (on a fast internal storage) and some information external (on a probably slow SD-card and they have no control about the SD-card speed and quality as customers can buy a cheap SD-card and will blame Evernote later, when their performance is bad) and this would call for a total different database approach with a some sort of split database on the device, because the database could get corrupted if for example the SD-card fails somehow or gets removed from the device, or something similar. I am trying a shot in the dark actually - I have no clue about the true reasons actually.

    But either way, in both cases: Evernote hides behind a security excuse and they are just not honest with me or they simply don't want the expenses of implementing a feature like this for just a bunch of customers, who want or need this feature, which would be a fact that they would of course not admit. I would prefer if they told me something like: 'We don't care about you because your customer type only makes like 5 percent of our sales and your feature is low priority - we have more important things to work on. If you can afford premium, buy a smartphone with a lot more of internal storage and you won't have a problem!'. However, somehow I feel not beeing taken seriously and this is what I was expressing.

    By the way: It seems as if Evernote had the right tactics as newer Android smartphones' sd-cards can be formated as internal storage, which is solving this issue for Evernote somehow - but formatting as internal storage has some disadvantages and could have some unwanted/unpredictable side effects.

     

    I would love a solution that for example stores attached binary data on the sd-card (e.g. PDFs, PPTX, or similar) and keeps the database core on the internal storage. It probably could be solved in a way that only if accessing those binary files, it will have some speed drawbacks as the file contents get indexed addressed, which can be stored internal again. This would reduce the internal data base to a minimum still keeping it fast and especially a fast search function. The main problem is that I am not free to decide where to store my data. It is more like 'could you please make it possible to let me store on the sd-card?'; Evernote: 'no, security risk. Period.'

     

     

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    Well, it is true that it is for security reasons. What if your devices are affected by malware etc.

    I would not want any notes that may or may not be important ( well I am the type who Worry about security, have 3 Antivirus installed)

    Below is from https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesExternal

    Internal Storage
    Store private data on the device memory.
    External Storage
    Store public data on the shared external storage.

    Using the Internal Storage


    You can save files directly on the device's internal storage. By default, files saved to the internal storage are private to your application and other applications cannot access them (nor can the user). When the user uninstalls your application, these files are removed.

    Using the External Storage


    Every Android-compatible device supports a shared "external storage" that you can use to save files. This can be a removable storage media (such as an SD card) or an internal (non-removable) storage. Files saved to the external storage are world-readable and can be modified by the user when they enable USB mass storage to transfer files on a computer.

    Caution: External storage can become unavailable if the user mounts the external storage on a computer or removes the media, and there's no security enforced upon files you save to the external storage. All applications can read and write files placed on the external storage and the user can remove them.

  2. 11 hours ago, PaceWalker said:

    Cool , good for you. I think the reason evernote does not improve might be due to users like you, who don't seem to be interested in voicing out and making strong demands so that the product can grow and become better but blindly worshipping evernote as if it has nothing wrong. 

    I am not willing to give up on the features i need too, which is markdown support, that is why i am expressing my frustrations using plain language instead of lazily pressing the up button.

    I know every possible workarounds, i even wrote some web apps to to write notes with markdown and syntax highlight. But wait a moment, why i should not be the one finding a work-around in the first place ? Shouldn't it be the job of evernote team to support customers with their use cases , provide solutions be it temporary or not and listen to customer's requests ?

    
    Funny story of the day:
    
    One day, a restaraunt run out of salt and served 2 dishes without salt to customers.
    
    Person A talks to the manager demanding a refund or a new dish to be served.
    
    Person B thought to himself :"it is okay, maybe the cook want that dish to be healthier and i can work-around by bringing my own salt"

    If you say Evernote never improves I guess you must be blind. (Bug fixes is improvements)

    By the way, I believe there are much more features which may be believed to be more important than markdown.

    Well, text editor most of the time could do markdown nowadays like visual studio code etc. The time u spend complaining could be done searching easily with google assistant / Cortana / Siri to search for a workaround?

    Also, I believe the Evernote staff would have seen this since it is at 282 Upvotes?

    (not wanting to say anything but the words got me triggered.)

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