That’s alarming given that many note-taking apps aren’t encrypted by default! Encryption is a process that scrambles text data, rendering it unreadable by anyone who doesn’t have the key (usually a password or passphrase). Our survey of 1,029 American adults found almost half (45.3% ☓.1) have saved one or more of the following in a note-taking app: usernames, passwords, social security number, credit card information, and security or PIN codes. People frequently use them for quick to-do and grocery shopping lists, but they’re also often used to store more private information. Note-taking apps have become a welcome replacement for post-it notes. This series highlights some of the lesser-known though commonly encountered privacy risks, and explains what you can do to protect yourself.įirst up: Saving private information to an unencrypted note-taking app. People are doing more than ever to protect their privacy, but not every privacy risk is explained in the news. This is the first in a series of posts about common but largely unknown privacy risks. All for free! Imagine trying to do that with Voice Memos on iCloud or Notability Voice Memos with Google Drive.The Hidden Privacy Risk in Note-Taking Apps Filed under Privacy Research on You can make separate journals/folders for different categories of notes, has a search function, and as 0 in app purchases! I have a folder for audio journals, and can record up to 30 mins of audio per file. It is a completely separate note-taking app (some have compared it to the free alternative of Evernote) and has a seamless password protection feature (Touch/Face ID support) like notability across devices. I store other important documents on my Google Drive that I use regularly and would not be comfortable mixing with personal journals.įor this reason, I use Zoho Notebooks.
Google Drive), they lose their password protection, and can be easily accessible by typing a keyword into the search button of your selected drive. The only problem I have is that when these documents are uploaded to the cloud (e.g. Notability can password protect your notes, and subjects, (in the app I have a locked folder for Journaling.) The best part about this feature is that if you use notability on the Mac, iPhone, or other devices, the password protection is synced and present too.
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