Once you confirm to Evernote that you do want to delete your account, after a period of 4 weeks everything will be lost forever. The picture’s different if you delete your account. Simply put, this means that everything you created will still be there after you reactivate your account. However, since the information is still there, you can still access it in Evernote after reactivation. You just won’t be able to access your notes, recordings, pictures, and other content on any devices you previously used to. Your personal data is safe when you deactivate your Evernote account. If you’re worried about your personal information, don’t be. Should I Delete or Deactivate My Evernote Account?ĭeactivating your Evernote account means giving yourself the option to go back to using the app for note-taking again in the future-with all the information you’ve captured intact and right where you left it.ĭeleting your account, as you can probably guess, means that all of your notes, scribbles, clippings, files, and such will be wiped from Evernote’s servers forever! If you’re not sure which option to go for, this guide will help you decide-and explain, in plain English, exactly how to do it. I see your point about deletion of an account, and Evernote should be better at that.ġ7 years blogging.Well, let’s just say you get what you ask for! All your notes, files, and such will be deleted forever, and you won’t be able to log in with your email and password again. I wanted to join, but that’s not possible from a German IP address. It’s not that they don’t have it!īy the way, how do you like your YouTube from a German IP address? As said, I was in that MOOC from Mr Alemanno, and at one point he had a Google Hangout. Especially for services that are originally from an English speaking country, I really am annoyed when they offer me the local language. I want to choose the language, if possible. Now, I do understand a fair bit of German, but that’s not the point. What is familiar, is that language issue. Seriously, though: you should be able to delete your account and all the content. I use it extensively, and can’t imagine why you want to leave it anyway. I love that service to the point that I’m a paying customer. As it is currently, from the user point of view, this entire process leaves a lot to be desired! Now of course there must be caveats to this – if I had shared notes with others, or others had shared them with me, there must be a way to deal with this when an account is deleted. And does a note deletion really mean it is deleted? Or only from my list of documents? However here too I have no idea what data, as a user, Evernote still has stored about me. Googling around further leads me to this Evernote support page in German (I can’t get an English version as Evernote sees I have a German IP address and thinks I therefore definitely need German language support, and doesn’t allow me to change language either from a menu or changing the URL – a further usability failure) that tells me that I need to delete each note I have saved separately, change my e-mail address listed at Evernote to one I may never then need for an account in future, and then to deactivate my account. Yeah, so I can prevent myself from ever having access to the account again, but Evernote still has access to all my data, indefinitely? That strikes me as a major failure. The screenshot above is for the closest Evernote has to an account deletion page – but it actually describes a permanent account deactivation, rather than a deletion, and it is also a deactivation without the prospect of reactivation. Only with Evernote you cannot close your account, at least not properly, and that worries me. It’s not necessarily a critique of these services as such, but I think that if I am no longer using a service it’s better I close the account. Old accounts with services I no longer use are being closed for good. I’m doing a bit of online spring cleaning this week.
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