REM  Wednesday, September 16, 2020

REM  by Robert J. Sawyer | sawyer@sfwriter.com | https://sfwriter.com

REM  For use with Evernote for Windows only.

REM  This batch file changes the on-screen display of the background 
REM  color of Evernote notes (without actually altering the note in 
REM  any way) and also changes the on-screen display of the background 
REM  color for the note list as well as making the highlight color and 
REM  divider lines in the note list contrast well with the new 
REM  background color.

REM  First, don't forget to set the Dark theme for Evernote's 
REM  Left Panel display -- the only part of a night mode that 
REM  Evernote's developers actually give Windows users.  You can do
REM  that at this setting inside the Evernote client:

REM  Tools | Options | General | Left panel theme | Default (dark)

REM  >>> This batch file requires the free utility Swiss File Knife, 
REM  >>> which you can get here:

REM  http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html

REM  If your Evernote program is not on Drive C:, edit this line:

C:

CD \

REM  You can find out where your Evernote.exe is located by 
REM  right-clicking on the Evernote icon, then selecting properties, 
REM  then the "Shortcut" tab, and looking at the value in "Start in" 
REM  field; that value is the folder that contains your Evernote.exe 
REM  file.

REM  As only one of these two folders likely exists, this should work 
REM  on most Evernote installations.  If you wish, you can put REM in 
REM  front of the line specifying the folder that DOESN'T contain your 
REM  Evernote installation program.  It's possible your Evernote 
REM  installation is in some other folder than either of these:

CD "\Program Files\Evernote\Evernote"
CD "\Program Files (x86)\Evernote\Evernote"

cls

REM  This command makes a backup copy of Evernote.exe, just in case:

copy Evernote.exe Evernote.ok

cls

REM  Note that below I've written the hex color codes in mixed case: 
REM  the first byte (two characters) uses uppercase; the second byte 
REM  (two characters) uses lower case; and the third byte (two 
REM  characters) uses upper case again.  This has no effect on 
REM  functionality; I've simply adopted this convention to make it 
REM  easier to do a case-sensitive search for the changed strings 
REM  within Evernote.exe with a hex editor, in case something goes 
REM  wrong.

REM  Sets background color for notes (#B2b1B3 is a light gray):
sfk rep Evernote.exe -firsthit -text "/-webkit-touch-callout:text;/background-color:#B2b1B3;  /" -yes

REM  If you prefer a soft-green background (as I do), comment out the 
REM  line above by adding "REM" to the beginning of it uncomment this one 
REM  instead (by removing "REM" from the beginning of it):
REM     sfk rep Evernote.exe -firsthit -text "/-webkit-touch-callout:text;/background-color:#C0dcC0;  /" -yes

REM  Below is an older version of the note-color patch for pre-2019 
REM  versions of Evernote; it's here for users who have stayed on that 
REM  older version.  You can safely activate the line by removing 
REM  "REM" from the beginning of it; it won't do anything in modern 
REM  versions of Evernote.exe:
REM  sfk rep Evernote.exe -firsthit -text "/-webkit-touch-callout: text;/background-color: #B2b1B3;  /" -yes

REM  Sets background color for the note list (#F5deB3 is a wheat color):
sfk rep Evernote.exe -text -case /#F8F8F8/#F5deB3/ -yes

REM  Sets divider line color used in the note list and highlight color 
REM  used for the selected note (#DDa0DD is a plum color):
sfk rep Evernote.exe -text -case /#E6E6E6/#DDa0DD/ -yes

REM  If you want to play around with other color codes, copy Evernote.ok
REM  to Evernote.exe (to get back to the default colors) and choose 
REM  hex codes from the list here:  https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-names/

REM  If something goes wrong, or you want to simply get back to an
REM  unmodified copy of Evernote.exe, you can always reinstall Evernote;
REM  you can get the installer here:  https://evernote.com/download
REM  Your notes and notebook structure will be left just as you had them
REM  even if you do a reinstall.