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At any time, you can update your settings through the "EU Privacy" link at the bottom of any page. Just say no. The minimum responsible thing to do is to put this in the FAQ so people like me won't keep spinning our wheels. Is there an update to this? Would really love to password protect certain notebooks and notes i. Please let me know. Thank you! Another vote for this functionality. As an executive using Evernote, I find this to be a significant gap in functionality. I cannot allow my admin access to my Evernote account where I track my travel, itineraries, meetings, etc.

Having to work around Evernote's limitation is forcing me to consider alternative solutions. I find this shortcoming to be shocking quite frankly. Especially given how simple the solution appears to be. Encrypting text within notes is great, but I know I would really enjoy being able to encrypt batches of notes at the notebook level. Navigating between several encrypted notes can be clunky, and a notebook master password that unlocks 'x' number of notes within the notebook would simplify the process greatly.

I know this is an old thread, but just wanted to vote it up the scale. Encrypting text is certainly useful, but clumsy Encrypting an entire Notebook would be so very awesome. I have seen this argument raised in the past against the need for this feature, and clearly the majority of people who have asked repeatedly for this feature don't find it compelling. If you don't see the need to provide an additional level of client side security on certain notebooks then fine, but a lot of people do.

If I step away from my computer for a few minutes and the screen lock doesn't kick in, I don't want others to gain access to this information. Sure, I could cut the screen-lock time down but then I end up unlocking it a million times a day. I also don't want to log out of Evernote every time I use it as most of the information that I keep isn't sensitive.

I am also sure that I would forget to logout and again the information in left open. Computer login and Evernote login capabilities are possibilities but they certainly aren't convenient or realistic in my environment.

All we want is a simple password, how hard can it be? This request has been here for years. They have an an encryption feature but if your text has bullet points or other markup, Evernote won't encrypt it. Evernote also doesn't ask you to type in the encryption password twice. So mistype the password, your text is now unrecoverable. So it's minimal. With all the press regarding privacy, you would think this is an easy grab for Evernote. But I'm tired of waiting for it and checking out other products.

I estimate Evernote could more than double their subscriptions by adding this one feature to allow users the ability to encrypt their own Evernote databases. Security is important to me - My computer is password protected for each userid - My Evernote account is password protected. Instead of trotting out the same responses, that people could have read already, why not just accept that it is not an unreasonable request to have additional functionality so people may use the tool in the way they wish.

The volume, persistence, uniformity and age of these requests for additional password security for objects within the app is such that app level and OS level sign in obviously does not meet the wishes which may not be the same as your perception of requirements of Evernote's paying customers.

Well said! I often got the feeling that DTLow is an employee of EN since on many topics, posts or questions he answers in a "defensive" way as if he tries to convince us that our requests are unreasonable. I mean, let's face it, most of the people know how to password-protect the computer or to log out of EN but I simply don't want to do that as it is not practical to do so every time I leave my desk, even it's just to make a cup of coffee.

Again, the fact that this feature is 2nd most wanted and that people still demand it and discuss it after 7 years means only one thing - users really need it! As for me, I gave up. That's it. I moved all my projects, my journals, logs, even my to-do list in OneNote. Sure, there are some disadvantages compared to EN especially after using the EN as my main platform for years but then there are some things which are better solved in OneNote and it works for me.

Biggest issue with EN for me is that I really don't see the direction in which they are going. With new CEO and most of the management changed I expected more, a revolution, but instead we mostly see new videos in which they are trying to justify what they are doing Sad, really sad because it was I mean still is a great idea, great app, great potential, but it seems as if they are stuck half way and can't seem to get over that I made no comment on the request being unreasonable I was responding to elefantecamp who is new to the forums and has expressed a security concern with children accessing Evernote data.

Employees are clearly indicated in the sidebar I'm not an employee, just a an experienced user volunteering to help other users. You should post as a new topic. This discussion is on password protected notebooks. Totally agree! It's probably even better to have the option that when you search for a note, those in the password-protected notebook will not show up in the result, unless you go to the notebook, enter the password and activate the search.

Personally, I encrypt my "private notes" An Evernote feature would be nice, but I'm not going to let that stop me. DTLow why do you encrypt? I thought you were advocating that the Evernote password, and the system password were sufficient. Is it because you are concerned about cloud security? Perhaps I've misunderstood your earlier arguments. I'm glad to see that you see some value in this feature. Encrypting every note individually in a folder must be a hassle, both when you encrypt and when you have to decrypt each one.

Do you ever forget to encrypt one? Have you ever forgotten or mistyped an encryption key? It would seem like it would be a very easy thing to do when you are encrypting a lot of notes. How does search work with encrypted notes? I haven't let the glaring absence of this feature stop me either but it certainly is a major dissatisfaction. The fact that Evernote won't even respond to this request makes it downright frustrating.

The Evernote password and device security provide a level of security, and is sufficient for most of my documents I have a few documents that I believe require encryption.

I use sufficient keywords in the title to ensure the search feature functions. I use an automated process with scripting on a Mac. Sounds like you have some deep integration there - I tend to use Evernote on the web most of the time on computers that are not mine, so scripts are not feasible. I will just use google docs instead. Oh well, not worth pulling my hair out over. There are various comments regarding security of our overall data and encryption, and cloud security, etc.

I'm comfortable with the overall security of my Evernote data, even if that is a bit of ignorant bliss. I am "desperate" for something far more basic, something that seems to have appealed to many, many users over the many years I've been a Premium EN user: An ability to password protect a notebook consisting of all the notes I don't want anyone to read or see and don't want to pop up in EN searches.

This isn't because I want to keep passwords safe though that is as good a reason as any , since I use 1Password. I just want a simple ability to keep personal journal entries, certain web clippings, photos and the like, separate and secure with an additional layer of password protection. I'll give you a couple of case scenarios: I am a college professor.

Students often literally read over my shoulder while I show them documents or web pages on my screen. I would like to easily switch to Evernote to show them saved files of examples or articles. However, I don't want journal snippets -- or web clippings of gifts I'm eyeing for my family, or recipes I've saved, or photos of my children's artwork or my brother's prized classic car -- showing up in that search.

I've had the same usage concern with consulting clients, because I use EN to organize those materials, as well. I do not want to have to worry about prying eyes next to me or behind me every time I perform a search on my Evernote in a public place.

The note encryption is not sufficient, since it balks at my web clips and doesn't tolerate formatting or longer lengths. Last example: The potentially horrifying default logon view. The contents of Evernote's encrypted notes are excluded from search and have a box in place of the contents, which keep them out of snippet view.

With an encrypted and password-protected notebook, I'd hope the titles, also, would be omitted from snippets and search. It's because of my useless coworkers, loathsome boss, petulant clients Thanks Jay Starkey for the reminder of this predicament. Of course, there are workarounds, most obviously, not having someone read over my shoulder. I can also try to pull things ahead of time, find other ways of working around nosey neighbors, etc.

But I am an Evernote devotee. I use it for everything and I love its search functions and the ability to trip across related saved documents by searching a word or tag. There are times I like sharing my EN screen with individual students, clients or even a lecture hall. Other users share their EN with assistants or family and because of a need to share many things across many notebooks, find it impractical to give others only specific notebook access.

Seems pretty easy to understand why they, too, would find it much easier to make one or more notebooks completely private only to them. I understand the notion of using different apps and software for different things.

I have plenty of exceptions, such as not using it for passwords. But it works best for me if I use it for almost all notes and document storage, personally generated and web saved.

Therefore, I don't really want another system for my journal, random web clips, and pictures I've taken of my children's artwork -- even though I don't want any of those things popping up in a search or along my sidebar.

Having a private notebook, or several private notebooks, would solve my concerns as well as those of countless other paying EN customers. I wrote about the potential for search embarrassment and completely forgot about default logon view humiliation! I'm at work, wanting to show someone a file. When I open EN, the left pane has snippets from notes with professional and non-confidential titles such as,.

Thanks, Jay Starkey. I'm actually going to add this point to my post above explaining my desperation, so that I'll have allllll my reasons in one place the next time someone asks why people are desperate for this feature. Oh man!! Please implement it!! For the life of me, I can't imagine why Evernote hasn't done this yet.

Is there a weakness in the programming itself? Is it a philosophical matter? This is on the level of OneNote not allowing for the sorting of notebooks unless you use OneNote and add the Onetastic add-on. It's so obvious a need that it should have been implemented long ago. Adding my vote to a simple password protection at the notebook level. It's not for state secrets, it's just for my journal.

I would love SO much to just be able to password-protect my "Journal" notebook. It doesn't have to be anything fancy; the digital equivalent of the little teeny tiny lock on a physical diary kept under a teenager's bed.

You know the one. It's not industrial strength, just a little barrier that says "hey, if you're not the owner of this, keep out". Has Evernote ever commenting on why they won't add this feature? It been getting hundreds of upvotes and comments since !

So frustrating! We still need the ability to password protect a specific notebook or even an individual note inside of Evernote. This would be in addition to the single login password. Please make this a new feature and a priority. Or at least tell us why you've been ignoring this since In 3 months it will be 8 years after this feature has been officially requested. I think we should not keep our hopes high and eventually opt to vote or hope for something more simple but important as well. I don't know, maybe the shape or the size of the ear on the elephant logo?

This might be a game-changer What is Evernote's response to the request for the ability to encrypt notes not just lines of plain text or whole notebooks? I don't understand why after 8 years we still don't have it, but I'm sure there's a good reason.

It might help to hear the explanation. I find it patently absurd that conversations have gone on in this Forum for years about whether Evernote should add the capability to password-protect the information one chooses to store in it by creating a a password or PIN option.

Is Evernote not an archival resource for the collection of all forms of information? The notion that all the data it helps manage should be publicly accessible by anyone who happens to have general access to one's Evernote account, such as an assistant, a spouse, a child or a co-worker, is utterly ridiculous.

Legal documents, personal reflections in a diary, medical information otherwise protected under HIPAA , receipts for purchased items or gifts, confidential business reports or agreements, photos that may be personally or professionally sensitive?

Anything one wants to keep away from prying eyes. The list is truly endless. Especially since Evernote acquired Skitch and it is too easy to capture and automatically store a screenshot that could expose all sorts of sensitive data a user may wish to keep private. If Evernote is worried about getting into the password retrieval or reset business, that problem is easily solved.

Since content is synched online, Evernote could also ask for a secondary password to unlock an online password manager. One is not apt to forget 3 or 4 different passwords and there can be other fail-safe retrieval mechanisms or methods.

It seems needlessly time-consuming and arcane to encrypt individual notes or sections of a note, and it is unclear whether this even applies to screenshots or other media. So long as Evernote keeps reminding us of the various media formats we can synch with the application from PDFs to audio and video files, besides text-based information , I find it insulting to be asked to store valuable information in a file cabinet that cannot be locked.

It diminishes the value of my digital assets? Can you imagine if file cabinets were sold that way? Since you are mod here, ridiculing long time customers is not a good look for the brand. It doesn't make these forums a helpful place for discussion. To answer your question, I was hoping Evernote would add zero knowledge encryption at some point.

I knew it wasn't there but liked other aspects of EN. I am paying more attention than I had in the past to privacy aspects of services I pay for. I switched to a zero knowledge encrypted backup for my PC for example, I switched to Signal for messaging as it has better privacy.

A new note taking app is another step. The suggestion of using other products encryption and attach it completely defeats the purpose of using Evernote. That's not a good solution for me, just a workaround. I dream about this feature! I read this topic and see that many guys don't get it. They talk about encryption, hacker protection e. But we want it not to hide our sensitive information from Putin KGB officers. Or notebooks with gift ideas for girlfriend. There is nothing criminal or illegal in this notebooks.

I just don't wanna that on a work meeting when I show marketing proposal somebody bt chance saw this personal notebook, cuz I use Evernote for all my note taking needs.

I'm OK with my notebook being gone if I forget my encryption key I realize you can encrypt pieces of individual notes but that's just not user-friendly enough. This is a major dilemma for me in being able to migrate to Evernote Also, I feel like the desktop client should be able to have a timeout where you are required to enter a PIN to get back in, just like the iPhone and iPad apps. It's a great feature.

I use Evernote casually because there is no 'Zero Knowledge' encryption ala Spideroak. Notebook level encryption as a premium feature would make me a paying customer. I don't see why this would be so hard to make? I actually upgraded to premium before I realized I couldn't encrypt notebooks It may not be that it's too hard.

Please search the board on encryption, if you want more info. Thanks for the reply BurgersNFries. Maybe it would become a priority if it was a small amount of extra money It's OK if that encrypted data is not indexed It can be made understood to users that anything in the encrypted notebooks will not show up in search results. I would sit down and:. Conservatively estimate the amount of development time, as well as time for updating help documentation, entering the extra password in the mobile apps, etc.

Also factor in the number of users who might be on the fence about paying for Evernote who will be pushed over the edge by this new feature. I realize this is hard to calculate but I'm sure the number is greater than zero Actually, I know it's at least one from Jpetroski's post above!

These are brand new paying customers, this number can add up quickly. I realize that you are an evangelist but to change priorities you have to show the business value.

Maybe it's not there? Maybe they don't want to charge any "add-ons" to keep the pricing simple, in that case they need to put some serious effort into estimating 4 above. At the end of the day, this feature will come to Evernote. The question is, when will it come and how much money is it costing Evernote to not have this feature? Yes, this feature would be great. This is really the only feature I would want as a premium customer.

The other things that you get are OK, but for me some encryption would seal the deal. The ability to password protect and encrypt a single notebook within Evernote would be great for the reasons already mentioned above. Forget it folks, I, and many others have tried Some "antis" here are more vocal than others.

If by "they," you mean Vernote, then I can assure you they have heard. You can even find them in some of the threads responding. Just because they disagree and don't do everything we suggest doesn't mean they are not listening. Have we convinced them yet?

But, maybe recent events are moving us closer to it. Maybe, if you offered your specific security concerns, and specific reasons for wanting it then that would be more convincing. No worries there. Last year they announced building a datacenter in China. No Prism access there. You may think you're being funny, tongue in cheek or showing to the world that "it's not only the U. And in any case the Patriot legislation also covers data centres abroad as long as the operating company is based in the U.

Competitionwise the Americans have really shot themselves in the foot, when they decided to coerce their cloud services industry to facilitate their spying business.

It was indeed intended to show that we shouldn't be myopic on NSA surveilance of US based data centers. Note that the UK collects more metadata than the US though through agreement, they share access to one anothers data.

They aren't going to say anything about the spy taps they have on foreign undersea cables, but that's been known for a very long time. Being inside or outside the US, with a data center inside or outside the US, likely makes very little difference. The only recent news here is that it's recently become news to some people and perhaps the getting of a renewed sense of the scope creep enabled by moores law.

I am just adding my YES vote for folder encryption. I use a separate program for that now, and lack of folder encryption is the main reason I don't keep financial or legal documents in Evernote. For sensitive data, my recommendation is to use Evernote's local notebooks.

When you need sensitive data on mobile devices, if you are using iOS, VoodooPad is nice wifi or iTunes sync with no Internet. Ideally, an encrypted notebook will be made available soon. I've been an Evernote user for years, and the request for encrypted notebooks has been raised repeatedly. I would love to have such a feature and would be willing to pay more for it, and would gladly sacrifice the ability to have the contents of encrypted notebooks indexed and searchable.

Unfortunately, I suspect that this requested feature is either extremely low priority or against Evernote's idea that everything should be searchable, and as such, I don't expect it to happen. From a certain perspective, I think not providing greater encryption capabilities is almost negligent.

With such a large user base, you know that some people are storing sensitive documents and data in EN, thinking it is relatively secure I have known such people - keep in mind that a majority of the world is not that tech sophisticated and when they see things like SSL encryption, they presume their data is always encrypted and absolutely safe.

Yes, these people should know better, and providers such as EN are not required to babysit such people, but if you are aware that people are using your product in an unsecure manner, shouldn't you do something about it?

Just my 2 cents. The last couple of minutes of this interview indicate that new "sexy" encryption options will be available "soon" by the end of the year apparently. By the way, Google storage now has encryption.

It seems to be roughly equivalent to what Dropbox already has as well. It might sound good to some people, but Google has the keys, so they can be legally compelled to turn your data over to a government and hackers can get a hold of it, so it is in my opinion nothing more than a false sense of security.

This is not the encryption I want to see in Evernote and it sounds to me in the interview that it isn't the encryption Evernote wants either. Not everything you type will get saved to note history. As I understand it, if you make 10 changes to your note before the next backup occurs, only the last version is saved. For what you describe to happen, a note would need to be sync'd and a backup to occur before you encrypt the note.

Possible, but maybe not that likely, again, as I understand it, though I do recall post's where folks have reported this happening. That said, I would like to see EN implement true zero knowledge note and notebook level encryption. I don't care so much about the mentioned vulnerability, but the current encryption solution is unusable for me, since I am not able to encrypt text that includes bullet points or hyperlinks, which most of my notes including those that are sensitive do.

My concern is primarily avoiding that a sensitive note pops up in a search in a professional setting and I am really disappointed that Evernote makes this practically impossible. To avoid the specific problem you mention, you might tag sensitive notes with a tag like "sensitive" or "nosearch" or whatever, and then when you do a search in a professional setting, put "-tag:nosearch" at the end.

That will keep those notes from appearing; and assuming what you're doing is interesting enough, your colleagues wouldn't spend much time wondering what tag:nosearch was about. I'm satisfied with an easy encryption strategy also a "sensitive" tag to exclude notes from searches.

My concern is primarily avoiding that a sensitive note pops up in a search in a professional setting. Some manage this by using separate EN accounts. I keep everything in one account but I have setup a work stack and a home stack and then have two saved searches, one to search only home and another to search only work.

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