It would be nice to have the option to lock notes so that they are not accidentally deleted or overwritten (with an error message saying something like, “This note is locked. Would you like to unlock this note in order to delete, edit, etc?” A further feature to this would be to have locked notes n…

Personally I would like to lock notes for my own security. My brain is ‘busy’, and sometimes I walk away from my computer or phone when they’re open. I keep lots of normal info in Onenote, but also lots of stuff I keep secure in a locked Onenote file. It would be fantastic to know those particular b…

[image] weddi-eddy: It would be nice to have the option to lock notes so that they are not accidentally deleted or overwritten (with an error message saying something like, “This note is locked. Would you like to unlock this note in order to delete, edit, etc?” This topic was passing by when …

I stumble on this thread because I was looking for a way to mark a note as read only, because I don't want to accidently modify it :slight_smile:

Just adding that as someone who copy/pastes tons of data out of and into notes - having the ability to lock a note down so that it cant be edited (though I can easily unlock it if needed) would be EXTREMELY helpful. Accidentally modifying notes occurs and its really frustrating.

[image] zblesk: I did a fresh install of EN in a VM. Trash seems to be synced, just as expected. I do not know why we are discussing Trash in this post, but here we have the right questions. I want to add Evernote experience: Yes, Trash is synced between devices. It is even encluded in sear…

trash discussions should be moved to a new thread. This thread is/should be focused on locking a note. locking a note so that it isnt deleted isn't the only use case - and as the other discussions along those lines have pointed out - it requires a solution that goes well beyond simple locking of no…

I think this would be a useful feature, but I believe it would require to add a new metadata tag, because the type_ field is not a bitmask. While a read-only mode should be easy to implement (given that the metadata has been added), being non-deletable would require more effort. Not sure how it wo…

[image] tessus: I think this would be a useful feature Yes, it might be useful and straightforward to implement. But I will be sad if something like this would be implemented. I will try to explain. The only use case for locking notes is to prevent accidents with unwanted changes. But Joplin…

[image] tnwn: Sometimes I have to rearrange my notes (e.g. add tags to many notes at once, move several notes to another notebook, delete several notes). Should "locked" notes interrupt these commands (adding and removing tags, moving or deleting notes)? This might happen. But you locked the …

Thank you! I shared my opinion with doubt should I do that or not. But I am interested in a community opinion. If someone needs a locking feature, why not? It is not a very sophisticated feature to implement. Much simpler than snapshots, of course. Note that some file systems This is a reason I …

Ability to Lock Notes

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tnwn 26 October 2020 22:35 23

I see. Sorry for protesting against the locking feature. I created a new post Snapshots for notes, where everyone can discuss it. For me, it is a substituting feature, but it is only my personal opinion.

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