Do notebook styles sync?

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,014]

I like the color-coding of notebooks that is now available in Evernote for Windows 6. When I upgraded on my desktop (running Windows 7) I quickly assigned a system of colors to my notebooks by right-clicking on each one and selecting Style. Fortunately, I only have a couple dozen notebooks, so it didn't take too long.

I just got around to upgrading to v. 6.1.2.2292 on my laptop (also Win7), and I find that, although the program did a lot of tinkering with the database and notes while upgrading, the color-coding did not come through. I've synced a couple of times, and even signed out, quit EN entirely, and signed back in, but nothing. So it appears that these styles do not sync, even to the same version of EN under the same OS. Is that right? Makes me feel like I wasted my time color-coding if I have to do it on both computers. Or am I missing something?

[gustavgi 311]

2 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

I like the color-coding of notebooks that is now available in Evernote for Windows 6. When I upgraded on my desktop (running Windows 7) I quickly assigned a system of colors to my notebooks by right-clicking on each one and selecting Style. Fortunately, I only have a couple dozen notebooks, so it didn't take too long.

I just got around to upgrading to v. 6.1.2.2292 on my laptop (also Win7), and I find that, although the program did a lot of tinkering with the database and notes while upgrading, the color-coding did not come through. I've synced a couple of times, and even signed out, quit EN entirely, and signed back in, but nothing. So it appears that these styles do not sync, even to the same version of EN under the same OS. Is that right? Makes me feel like I wasted my time color-coding if I have to do it on both computers. Or am I missing something?

Color-coding is supposed to sync, so you shouldn't change it on both computers as you only risk style-conflicts. You should report it to support.

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,014]

23 hours ago, gustavgi said:

Color-coding is supposed to sync, so you shouldn't change it on both computers as you only risk style-conflicts. You should report it to support.

Thanks, will do.

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,014]

On 6/14/2016 at 6:30 PM, gustavgi said:

Color-coding is supposed to sync, so you shouldn't change it on both computers as you only risk style-conflicts. You should report it to support.

Alas, Evernote support does not agree. This is the response I got:

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Color coding notebook titles is application specific and does not sync to the Evernote application on other devices.

She also suggested I make a feature request, which I will in the Windows Feedback Forum. I can understand why styles might not sync from Windows to the Android app, but it seems to me that they ought to sync to the same application under the same OS on all devices. Frankly, there seems to be no point in doing the color coding if I'm going to have to reproduce it manually on my laptop every time I make a change.

[gustavgi 311]

3 minutes ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Alas, Evernote support does not agree. This is the response I got:

She also suggested I make a feature request, which I will in the Windows Feedback Forum. It does seem to me that in the same application under the same OS, the styles should sync.

Ok, I guess I rushed it a bit.

You can sync up to 255 styles on tags (and notes with those tags will also get a color code in the note list). I just assumed that that applied to notebooks as well. I don't really use notebooks for sorting.

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,014]

Interesting. I use notebooks much more than tags so far. It does seem that if color codes on tags sync, it wouldn't be a problem for the same to happen on notebooks. The style dialogues for notebooks and tags are identical, though of course that doesn't necessarily relate to how the underlying data look.

[gazumped 12,224]

There's a snazzy little paid-for utility called OneNote Gem (really!) that offers Evernote Batch where you can do lots of things including altering background and text colours.  Bad news - it works only in Windows,  and for some reason you need to downgrade to EN5.2 to install it correctly - you can then re-upgrade.  It does lots including - as the name suggests - batch-altering note style and content.  Bad news - Windows only AFAIK.

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,014]

Thanks, gazumped. Sounds like more hoops than I want to jump through for this particular need. What I may try is a suggestion (by you, I think) to someone else in another thread to (carefully!) copy the database from the desktop to the laptop, which should bring the styling with it.