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[Got2bFree]

Is there any way to change the background color of the interface from white to something else? I was very excited to see the Evernote Clearly interface because you could click the lamp and change background of the page! However when I realized the page could not be saved that way in Evernote, I was very disappointed. As we may all know the intense white background on most interfaces is a doozey on our vision, so anything to assist in improving that would be a huge plus. Maybe the ability to change the white background to light grey or dark grey background with black text, or black background with white text, etc...

On the upside I rely on Evernote HEAVILY for work, home, everything, in short this app RULES!

Thanks in advance for any input or responses...

[peterfmartin]

Welcome to the forums, Got2bFree.

Currently, no. Sorry. I've changed the title to show that you want this feature.

[Philber]

Hi, yep I would also very much like to be able to change the background colour of my notes in Evernote. I particularly like the yellow background in Mail Notes in OS X, but hate the way notes are integrated into Mail, which is part of the reason I have switched to Evernote.

A nicety would also be the ability to have feint lines.

Thanks.

[nik1985]

Hello,

Please add the ability to change the background color.

[peterfmartin]

Please add the ability to change the background color.

Concise and to the point. Well said.

[gavinch]

+1 on this!!
Much needed feature if Evernote is working towards remembering everything!
In my toying around with memory methods I find one needs to engage all our different senses when we learn a particular thing.
Much of what we learn would be easy if they are uniquely associated with only that particular topic. But in reality what we learn overlaps with a lot of things we learn later in life and once that overlap occurs we get confused and we forget.
So if we could get a note to have color coding we could have a new neuronal association in our brain to help us recall that particular thing.
Just my two cents

[gavinch]

This web app does seem to address that.
http://evernote.com/...ems/colorstache
But it would be great if it was incorporated into Evernote natively.

[jumbo]

Agreed. A yellow ruled (or quad-ruled) background makes notes look like notes, and sets them off from everything else on the screen. It also sets them off from the lists and icons within the evernote window. It's a first step to a more visually appealing (and more functional) evernote window.

[NGloom]

+1 for this!

[Robin Lee]

I would like to backup this idea too. There are too many occasions when I clip contents from websites with background color, I am forced to manually remove the background color to match with my notes.

[GrumpyMonkey]

If you use note templates, as Robin Lee's (welcome to the forums!) comments suggested, you can have any background color you want. However, changing it is the tricky part, and it is also not possible on mobile clients to change text color, so that can be an issue as well. I hope we'll get the feature someday, but I guess other things like control over fonts, text size, highlighting, etc. (clients vary on their support) would probably be a priority for many people as well. Evernote developers have plenty to keep them busy over the summer

If you would like some background color templates, please see this page:
http://www.princeton...o/template.html

[WClampett]

Thank you GrumpyMoney for the template link. This is okay as a workaround, but I do hope Evernote respond soon to the growing calls for better note formatting.

[Robin Lee]

If you use note templates, as Robin Lee's (welcome to the forums!) comments suggested, you can have any background color you want. However, changing it is the tricky part, and it is also not possible on mobile clients to change text color, so that can be an issue as well. I hope we'll get the feature someday, but I guess other things like control over fonts, text size, highlighting, etc. (clients vary on their support) would probably be a priority for many people as well. Evernote developers have plenty to keep them busy over the summer

If you would like some background color templates, please see this page:
http://www.princeton...o/template.html

Thanks Monkey.

[GrumpyMonkey]

If you use note templates, as Robin Lee's (welcome to the forums!) comments suggested, you can have any background color you want. However, changing it is the tricky part, and it is also not possible on mobile clients to change text color, so that can be an issue as well. I hope we'll get the feature someday, but I guess other things like control over fonts, text size, highlighting, etc. (clients vary on their support) would probably be a priority for many people as well. Evernote developers have plenty to keep them busy over the summer

If you would like some background color templates, please see this page:
http://www.princeton...o/template.html

Thanks Monkey.

Anytime

[Andrew Zwart]

+1
Please give the ability to have a black background colour with wite lettering.

Much easiwer on the eyes, especially when using it all day.

[GrumpyMonkey]

+1
Please give the ability to have a black background colour with wite lettering.

Much easiwer on the eyes, especially when using it all day.

If you use iOS (iPad or iPhone), you can change the accessibility settings so that pressing the Home button three times will reverse colors. This is great for reading at night. It is a global setting that works for all apps.

[anabela]

Please add this option, it's a necessity to read in the evening. I use Clearly to read websites and it has a beautiful dark background right from the box. Add something like this to Evernote !

[Pie]

This feature has been proposed many times since version 2.0 immsmc. That's at least 2 years ago. And now it's still on the way. Really don't know if there's any difficulty in implementing it.

I think it's pretty essential for a text handling application to have this ability. Please make it happen, thank you.

[anabela]

By the way, for Windows users there is also an application that reverses screen colors, so you can see the notes on black background. Either check the option "Reverse colors" in Windows 7 Magnifying Glass, or use something like NegativeScreen.

A helpful thing that Evernote could do is post a CSS script with styles for the web version of Evernote to have dark background and semi-white text, for both reading and writing. It would be possible to import such script to Greasemonkey and see notes similar to Clearly. (notes which use colorful text would have this switched off).

[beirne]

Add me to those who want background coloring. When I want to highlight stuff now I have to change the color of the font, which doesn't stand out as well, or put asterisks nearby. Background coloring is in lots of programs and shouldn't be that hard for Evernote.