The only question you can ask is 'Is it safe enough' On the basis that banks and governments seem to be routinely hacked these days, I'd say it's impossible to judge whether anything you store online is ultimately safe. Overall In the case of Evernote, is the security good enough for private journals (definitely don’t want people to be reading it)? What kind of note app would you recommend if we want to keep our data Super safe from prying eyes? Lastly, if data is deleted from my end (eg lets say i choose to delete my whole account and all my notes inside) - can the data be deleted from the cloud too? Or will it remain there “forever”? But can the data already “up there” be encrypted from my end too? I can start encrypting new notes now before they get synced to the cloud. But is it possible for data that is already in the cloud to be encrypted? Eg, I already have many notes in Evernote that have been synced to the cloud. Third, I understand it’s possible to encrypt data from our end before it goes to the cloud (eg by using Saferoom or other encryption tools). Will other people be able to access such data in the cloud easily? I’m not sure what this means and whether that means the data is in “open” format in the cloud and people can get access to it if the user doesn’t encrypt text from their end. If the user does not, it may not be encrypted when it goes to the cloud.

Second of all, I understand from Evernote’s privacy policy that though they use end-to-end encryption, this depends on whether the user selects a portion of the note to encrypt. First of all, is this cloud service safe? If data is stored there, is it in an “open” or “closed” format? And is it accessible by other people easily?

I’ve been using Evernote for storing personal data (eg private journals, notes etc but no personal password or financial info) and recently I’ve been concerned about whether Evernote is actually safe because it uses Google cloud to store data.

I’ll just explain a bit about the situation here:

Evernote personal cost