One of the biggest failings of Evernote as it stands is the inability to encrypt notes and/or notebooks. While Evernote does now offer the ability to encrypt the text of a note, any attached documents are not encrypted, so it cannot be used to store financial or tax documents (at least not securely). Note: The other failing (IMHO) is the overly simplistic editor. So while perusing the Evernote forums the other day, I came across an application called Saferoom which offers the ability to encrypt the entirety of a note.

Just a quickie note for any who might encounter this issue. After upgrading to MacOS Sierra, my Homebrew install of PHP 7.0 failed to update. ==> Upgrading homebrew/php/php70 ==> Downloading https://php.net/get/php-7.0.11.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror Already downloaded: /Users/swschulz/Library/Caches/Homebrew/php70-7.0.11 ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/php70/7.0.11_4 --localstatedir=/usr/l Last 15 lines from /Users/swschulz/Library/Logs/Homebrew/php70/01.configure: checking for OpenSSL support... yes <snippage> checking if the location of ZLIB install directory is defined... no configure: error: Cannot find libz Since I was on the beta version of Sierra, I waited for an automatic resolution to the issue once the final version was released.

A week or so ago my brother mentioned that one of the Mac podcasts had done an episode about application launchers and asked if I had seen it. I hadn’t, but having a few minutes of downtime, I decided to give it a listen. Said show is called Mac Power Users, and the hosts David and Katie do a good job of comparing the big three launchers (Spotlight, Alfred, and LaunchBar).