dwlloyd

I keep seeing an occasional popup dialog box that asks for my Evernote password in order to sync, but the dialog does not identify itself as coming from Evernote. For all I know, some malware wants to trick me into giving it my Evernote password! I have three issues with this: 1) Why does your application, which is running on my home computer, EVER need to ask for my password after the one-time installation? (I also have problems with Windows telling me certain functions are only available to my network administrator--which makes no sense on a home machine, and I suspect the two issues may be related. I don't trust Microsoft's malicious adware, so I block unwanted "features" that cause Windows to assume my machine is in a corporate environment. I can usually work around those "ask your network administrator" problems, but they are a constant annoyance. Ironically, Evernote is the ONLY reason I haven't migrated permanently to Linux. I often boot my computer to Linux because of its much better security, and just use Evernote's web interface, but I haven't found a way to scan documents into Evernote as seamlessly in Linux as it is in Windows.) 2) If you MUST ask for a password, PLEASE make it clear it is Evernote asking for the password! Your dialog looks suspicious. I usually hit "cancel," and then go to Evernote and click on "sync." Then, when it asks for my password again (why?) I know it is OK to enter it. 3) Every time you ask unnecessarily for my password, you jeopardize my security, because I must look up my password, copy it to the clipboard, where any malware that might be running on my machine can access it, and paste it into your form (because I cannot remember a password that is long enough to be secure, and because I have a short-term memory problem due to a brain injury that makes copying a password visually and retyping it impossible for me--I often have to call someone to come and enter my password for me, which sort of defeats the whole purpose of having a password!). If you really do need to regularly verify my identity, couldn't you let me use my YubiKey for that?

Linux KDE Neon using Chromium browser. I installed the "pop-up as tab" extension to overcome the inability to clip popup windows (for whatever reason that escapes me, my bank likes to provide reports in insecure popup windows that I normally block because they can bypass the protection provided by browser extensions). The extension converts all popup windows into tabs that are protected by my security extensions, and that can be clipped by Evernote. After I installed this extension, I attempted to clip the chrome webstore page to save the documentation of how this extension works, and I got the error message copied below: Chromium Version 63.0.3239.84 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on neon 16.04 (64-bit) Evernote Web Clipper Version: 6.13.1 Updated: December 15, 2017 Size: 3.79MiB Due to the restrictions set by the browser, you cannot clip this page I tried to check the page source code, but I could not find anything in the HTML code to explain why the page could not be clipped. This is an image of the page.

Software for mind-maps seems to miss the point. I usually draw mine on paper, and then scan them as a PDF, and the mark-up the PDF with comments that Evernote can make sense of....