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  1. It sounded like the original poster was using a 3rd party app to lock Evernote, above and beyond just locking the phone, and was looking for something similar on the PC, hence the discussion. Beyond locking the PC, or localing encrypted storage, I haven't looked for any (but I might, more for a program to keep from procrastinating playing games ? ) [Is there a lock on the Evernote App? I use the desktop version] On mobile you can setup a guest account or additional users (well you can on Android 7 / LineageOS 14.1), and that seems like a good idea for people to setup and use as phones often contain a lot of private information or access to accounts [I've been meaning to, more for when friends kids want to borrow my phone, as otherwise most people have their own devices and if they are using my phone, it's to access my data]
  2. For those that missed it, WIN+L (or CTRL+ALT+DEL, then ENTER) locks Windows immediately. And with a laptop, lock when the lid is closed (it sleeps). While having the screensaver timeout and lock the pc again is a good idea, just being in the habit of hitting WIN+L when you get up and walk away prevent anyone, especially fast moving kids, from jumping onto your account immediately after you left (which if they are impatient for their turn, or racing their siblings for the computer, they will do). [They can then easily log into their (or the kids account), which homes should setup, if only to prevent the accidental deletion of important work or reading emails not meant for them.]
  3. A different approach might be to print your articles to PDF after highlighting and using Evernote import folders to import into Evernote. Perhaps IFFT can automate the printing when you've read and highlighted an article (say after tagging it as read!?). No idea if this would work for anyone... [of course it doesn't nicely summarize they key points from the article in the Evernote note, but this might be something better done by you, as that should improve retention/comprehension of the content] [This is based on my approach of printing articles from Chrome to a PDF into an evernote import folder (for automatic import into my inbox). I do this so I can highlight and markup a well formatted PDF using the builtin Foxit readers (in Evernote for Windows 6.7.5), so that I also have a printable and sharable copy of the marked up article, or almost any source material saved in PDF format.] But this goes against the grain of Evernote's web clipper and probably how others use Evernote, so take it for what it's worth.
  4. [Edit: re-reading the thread, I guess I just re-iterated what was posted above, ha ha ha... sorry / sort of ? ] So really Sandboxie is a copy-on-write kind of virtualization solution, which I can run a separate copy of Evernote and either rely on syncronization through evernote servers to keep the two copies in sync, or ultimately overwrite the local copy fully with the Boxie changes (or only keep the original and any of its changes). That should generally work well, if I'm primarily using it to lookup information in the middle of another task. Thanks! [it doesn't really help me entirely as I heavily rely on local databases, but it's a step forward] Other ideas for Sandboxie 1) if it also allows me to run installs, it might offer a way for me to easily test Evernote betas on current data, without risking my working copy of Evernote -- that's something I'll look into more as I'd like to test or at least evaluate Evernote betas and never versions to see if they work for me (ie, I'm staying on the old version until the PDF viewer is workable again) 2) I could see it allowing more complicated setups of running multiple evernote accounts on a machine at once (I don't see a need for me right now, but it opens that possibility, probably without any real data risk even for local databases)
  5. Folder, searching, file types, and sharing definitely are in windows explorer, dropbox, whatever... but as DTLow highlighted it's the note concept at the core that is the subtle but key difference I have a tonne of PDFs of scanned pages and saved articles and simply putting them in a folder on my computer or dropbox, even with a creative folder structure, it isn't easy or natural to flip through them. In evernote I can see the first page of the PDF as I flip through the notes, highlight relevant parts of the PDF, and add a summary or comment to the Evernote - it makes a much better digital binder (and add in the notebooks and tags, a much better filing cabinet). Perhaps someone would be fine with dropbox and a good folder structure, but I've never found that style of storage natural. Not that Evernote doesn't need a few tweaks as well, especially as I'm stuck on 6.7.5 until PDFs are usable again, but it's far better than Dropbox.
  6. Sort of... but the docked view stays "docked" to the side of the screen and the remaining space is available to any program you open. So even when you switch to another program or try to maximize the window, OneNote is still visible (maximize now will only fill the remaining space). If you just use Windows 10's split screen approach or manually size windows, when you open another program (as part of your research) or maximize it, it will cover up your Evernote note, so then you have to go through the resizing procedure again (and each time you open another window/program as part of your research). So the "docked view" of OneNote is a bit more robust and less fiddling with window sizes for research sessions if you are switching between multiple applications while taking a note. I definitely would like this feature [although one that is more multi-desktop friendly, because OneNote's implementation affects all desktops, shrinking all their maximum window sizes]
  7. Upvoted. I'd also like a way to automatically read only a block of notes, or notes older than a certain time frame. I'm quite paranoid that a random keystroke (or other hickup) will result in note contents being deleted and it not being realized (for a long long time). [Although I suppose this is a reason for versioned notes in premium]
  8. While some of my other wishlist items are higher priority to me, I was thinking this might be useful for me Use case: I have templates I've created in Evernote, with blocks of text that are more instructional/illustrating/etc., but once I've copied the template (form), I'd like to hide that instructional text, because it's no longer the focus. [I suppose I could delete it, after copying the template into a working document, but a collapsible section would work nicely.] [But maybe this is all too workflowy / data capture vs a generic database to store random snippets of information]
  9. Ha ha... thanks for the correction. I worded that lazily and was intending XML attributes (although that thought is still likely flawed design wise :-D ). Thanks for clarifying the intent of Evernote tags.
  10. I would use this feature... it would work well into my workflow. I review articles and documents in PDF form, and while I attach the PDFs into Evernote for reference and keeping notes with the source material, I most often only going to search my summary notes or highlights that I've directly typed into the note.
  11. I can appreciate that... while tags could be properties of any XML element, I can appreciate it's a departure from Evernote approach of tagging notes and not content. It (or sub-notes) just seemed useful, but I'm still new to Evernotes way of things, so my opinion might change over time :-P
  12. Related: although I don't see this as being implemented with tabs, personally. [also, if they did implement the subnote or tagging portions of text solutions, I would love if it worked with images somehow, as scanned notes would definitely be an area where this would be a benefit. ]
  13. It would be useful to be able to open multiple instances of Evernote, because I usually have different tasks going on different Windows desktops... and would still like to be able to search/filter notes differently in each of those tasks (so opening a note in a window isn't always a solution). The Web solution might work, except that doesn't help with local databases or when working offline. Also, if I try to "open" evernote when its running on a different desktop, nothing happens (it doesn't even switch to that desktop, as other programs do). So then I'm left hunting for it, ha ha.
  14. Except many people consider different colours and formatting as important visual organizational tools. [And incidentally, so does Evernote who has had blog posts on that point] There's quite a bit of room between here and the power of dedicated apps. Note taking is serious work.
  15. Another vote for this feature. I use different colours to designate the purpose of the information. As to the comment about "development costs money" there are plenty of paid users on here asking for this, since you can paste in other colour highlights from Word, it can store and display it, so we only need the interface to offer us the colour choice. if "development costs" is the driving factor, then offer basic highlights for the free users, and multi-colour highlights as an upgrade feature. [Along with so many other usability requests, like styles, that power users would pay for, if they aren't already paying]
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