This is one of those unexpected features that I didn’t know about until I needed it. Of course, it was mentioned on the Evernote’s blog back in April, but who reads documentation, right?
One day I was editing a document attached to one of my Evernote’s entries. I got confused in my open Word windows, modified the wrong version of the document, saved it back to Evernote and closed Word. So there was no going back and undoing it in Word.
In my desperate and panicked attempts to restore a previous version of the document, I stumbled upon a View – Notes History menu option of Evernote. Apparently, every time you synch with Evernote’s servers, it makes a backup of modified notes. So the Note History allows you to access all previous versions of a given note. With just a couple of clicks I was able to download a previous version of the document in question and reverse my changes.
This feature is available only to premium account users. But like it is always the case with backups, 45 dollars per year is a small price to pay for an ability to recover from dumb mistakes. And even having Mozy backup of Evernote folders didn’t really help. The way Evernote stores its notes and attachments, it is almost impossible to figure out which folder represents which note.
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