DISQUS

Kevin Keller · 4 months ago

As an attorney, I think I'd be concerned about client notes/files being stored on third party servers, even with passwords. Perhaps that's just paranoia on my part though. I'm also leery of using web e-mail for client communications, although some of my outside counsel sometimes use gmail to communicate with me (something I'm not that happy about).

Dale Dietrich · 4 months ago

I'm concerned about this too. Though I do use Google Apps Gmail to host my @daleisphere.com and @daledietrich.com email domains.

This same issue arises with any third party hosted email service which, as you point out, is quite common for small and even medium sized law firms.

I'm certainly re-thinking the idea of using the sync'ed method for client notes. I don't particularly want/need to access notes in the cloud. But I do want notes synced between my tablet, PC and iMac.

Ideally, Evernote would provide a service that does NOT include the cloud component for specific noteboks (for example, my client notebook of notes in Evernote) but would sync between devices would still work. Or, they could provide a service where notes online were encrypted like Dropbox does. But, who is to really know if they implement that in an effective way. Certainly their reputation would be adversely affected if anyone's data was ever found to be compromised. That should go some way to ensuring that they operate the system with integrity.

For now, they do offer the functionality that a notebook of notes would not be synced. That solves the hosted notes security issue but pretty much eliminates the reason I use Evernote - to sync hand written notes from my tablet with typed notes on other devices.

Lots to ponder here.

...Dale

Jeff · 1 month ago

If you need secure notetaking solution for PC and iPhone, I would recommend looking at OneNote + MobileNoter (iPhone client).