Privnote Users Speak and We Listen!
As many of you might have already seen, a few weeks ago the new privnote became live. This is our first major upgrade of the classic privnote since 2008! Moreover, quite a few new features have been added as well. In this blog post, we will let our users speak through their requests and suggestions as a way to illustrate what we have done in response:
"I LOVE PRIVNOTE
Please keep it free and no login required is great.
Encryption is very important. Everybody needs a service like this.
Thanks"
Privnote Team: Yes, the new privnote is kept free and anonymous, exactly as the classic privnote was!
"Great application, doesn't work good on every computer though"
Privnote Team: Now it does! Otherwise we want to hear about it!
"Hi, I frequently send customer data (addresses, phone numbers, email etc..) to third party vendors for online orders. I want to make sure they can read the note, even more than once but cannot access it after the note is read... an expiration date on it like "end of the month" would be great!"
Privnote Team: Now you can! Click Show Options and you will see different note expiration options to choose from. Actually, only four options, as we wanted to keep it very simple. For added security, anyone who has the link to the encrypted note can destroy the note at any time!
"... A manual password would be good so that even if someone else gets the link they can't access it unless they know the password."
Privnote Team: Now privnote has manual password support! Again click Show Options and you will directly see it there.
"I don't have an iPhone but copying links on that software is difficult from what I hear!"
Privnote Team: It's a lot easier now (given the limitations of the browser). Check it out!
"Thank you for the new privnote, it's very nice and clean looking. However, I believe this new 'Yes'/'No' question is really a problem. I'm talking about:
'You're about to read and destroy the note with id xxx'
'yes, show me the note'
'no, not now'
I understand you probably made this because people click the link and
destroy the note without knowing to save it. But this "convenience question" is a security risk.
I need to know that my note was deleted when it was clicked on. And I don't want to have to worry that the person clicked "No" and now my link is there to be clicked on in a future day by who knows who....
Another thing, this Yes/No question can also be confusing to new people. They might be worried about not knowing what to do and they might notwant to "destroy" the note and would click "No" just because it soundslike the safe option. Please understand that this is a very bad featurefor me. Every extra click and every extra question is a potential to confuse the person or scare the person.
I think that the new privnote should behave exactly the same as theclassic privnote by default like everyone is used to. So nothing shouldbe different. If somebody wants to enable a "warning yes/no" messagethey can do it with an advanced option that you should create there. Butby default it should be as simple as the classic way was. Nothing needs to change with that.
If you think this new Yes/No question is good to have by default, then atleast make an option to disable it. But I think it should be the otherway around where it should be an option that needs to be enabled (notenabled by default)."
Privnote Team: We decided to change the default because in our latest survey, more than half the users said that the most problematic issue was destroying the notes by accident, either when sending or receiving a privnote's link. Nevertheless, we have added a new option called don't ask to emulate classic privnote. Here is how:
Go to Show Options and select the checkbox: Do not ask for confirmation before showing and destroying the note.
The good news it that you are be able to turn it on from Privnote's URL. For example:
https://privnote.com#dont_ask -> will set the “disable confirmation screen” option ON.
You can of course bookmark this URL, so you don’t have to set the advanced option every time. As a matter of fact, you can do that with some of the other options as well, like the notification e-mail or the note expiration. For instance:
https://privnote.com/#dont_ask¬[email protected]¬ify_ref=share_your_comments! -> will set the “disable confirmation screen” option ON, set the notification email to [email protected] and the reference note name to share_your_comments!
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