We’ve previously written about how to lock down Evernote from prying eyes, on your own machine. That doesn’t protect your data, though, once it is out there on Evernote’s servers. While it would be horrible for Evernote’s business if your data were hacked into on their end, you can never be too safe. There is currently no way to encrypt individual Evernote notes, but there are methods for encrypting the contents of individual notes. Read on for three such methods. If you are going to use any of these methods on select notes, make sure that you use descriptive note titles, as the contents of those notes will no longer be searchable once encrypted.
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A few weeks back, while researching for my comparison review of Shelfster and Evernote, I stumbled upon another alternative to collect information and organize your life: Springpad. I had the pleasure of speaking with the CEO and co-founder of Springpad, Jeff Janer (formerly of Third Screen Media and Britemoon) — and I have to say, Evernote user or not, Springpad may have a place in your life.
To test this theory against my normal giddy excitement for new tech, I got my wife to try it — and, let me tell you, if my wife can find a new piece of tech both useful and exciting, then it may just be one of the best bits software to appear in a long, long time.
We are obvious Evernote fans here at 40Tech – but that doesn’t mean we aren’t open to other options! Recently we were contacted by the good folks at Shelfster, and asked if we might be interested in doing a review on their “application which allows you to easily organise and share with others your favorite information from the web, offline documents or real world”. They even provided us with 10 invitations to their private beta for our readers! We took their app for a spin, and found that Shelfster is pretty cool, overall. Have a read through and let us know what you think in the comments.
The first 10 comments with a raised hand will get the invite link.
The possible uses of Evernote are endless. We’ve previously written about 10 ways to use Evernote to unclutter your life, how to use Evernote as a GTD tool, and how to put Evernote to use on your iPhone. It’s been a while since we’ve talked about our favorite tool, so here are 10 more uses of Evernote for you to consider. We’d love it if you’d help out, too, and share with us the ways that you use Evernote, down in the comments.
This is an update to an earlier post, How to Secure Evernote on a Shared Computer, and shows an easier way to open an encrypted version of Evernote data with a simple desktop shortcut.
A few months ago, we explained how to use Evernote and TrueCrypt to secure Evernote on your computer. This was in response to one of the loudest gripes about Evernote – its inability to natively secure your data, short of locking your user account every time you stepped away from your computer. One of the commenters to that post, Barry, shared with us a batch file (a text file that runs a series of commands) to make this process even easier to use. Once set up, it is a two step process: click on an icon, and enter your password. Doing so automatically opens TrueCrypt, decrypts your data, and then opens Evernote. The batch file even closes TrueCrypt when you exit Evernote. Read on for updated instructions that include Barry’s batch file. Thanks to Barry for sharing this with us.