Hi Shawn
I'm actually doing the following on W11 on my laptop but I've not joined the W11 forum yet, and hoping it's still the same as W10...

Just yesterday I downloaded Microsoft Launcher onto my android tablet, and used this to see my sticky notes from my laptop.

I'm signed into both devices with the same account, and yesterday, when I was trying this out, all was fine, I could synch the notes across both devices. But then something went wrong, and a new note I added on my laptop didn't synch to the tablet. The tablet was switched off when I added the note, but I clicked to synch from the laptop (assuming this would update the notes wherever they are held in the ether).

When I switched the tablet on, the new note hadn't appeared, so I tried to synch the tablet but again it didn't appear. I tried several times, with no joy. With both devices switched on, they still won't synch, although the tablet is claiming it has synched. Earlier today the laptop was claiming it had synched (All caught up!) but it hadn't. And now I have an error, from an earlier attempt, plus synching on the laptop has frozen.

Maybe I haven't understood how the synching works?

Here is the error:

CorrelationVector: uD4CCDV5dE+6KjhndtvneQ.277
ServiceRequestId: 7beee1ed-e533-8188-bcf9-2ea20d7d2dac
BackEndTarget: DBAPR07MB6917.EURPRD07.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
AccountLogId: 4acb1f0a6a6365b9
Timestamp: 2021-12-17T16:23:00Z

Any suggestions?

SaggyMaggyPoo said:

Hi Shawn
I'm actually doing the following on W11 on my laptop but I've not joined the W11 forum yet, and hoping it's still the same as W10...

Just yesterday I downloaded Microsoft Launcher onto my android tablet, and used this to see my sticky notes from my laptop.

I'm signed into both devices with the same account, and yesterday, when I was trying this out, all was fine, I could synch the notes across both devices. But then something went wrong, and a new note I added on my laptop didn't synch to the tablet. The tablet was switched off when I added the note, but I clicked to synch from the laptop (assuming this would update the notes wherever they are held in the ether).

When I switched the tablet on, the new note hadn't appeared, so I tried to synch the tablet but again it didn't appear. I tried several times, with no joy. With both devices switched on, they still won't synch, although the tablet is claiming it has synched. Earlier today the laptop was claiming it had synched (All caught up!) but it hadn't. And now I have an error, from an earlier attempt, plus synching on the laptop has frozen.

Maybe I haven't understood how the synching works?

Here is the error:

CorrelationVector: uD4CCDV5dE+6KjhndtvneQ.277
ServiceRequestId: 7beee1ed-e533-8188-bcf9-2ea20d7d2dac
BackEndTarget: DBAPR07MB6917.EURPRD07.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
AccountLogId: 4acb1f0a6a6365b9
Timestamp: 2021-12-17T16:23:00Z

Any suggestions?

Hello Maggi,

It does indeed still work the same in Windows 11. It requires being signed in to the Sticky Notes app with the same Microsoft account on all devices you want to sync with.

You could try resetting the app.

Thanks Shawn,

I tried a repair on the sticky notes, which didn't work, so I reset them, which did and I didn't lose any of the notes, which was a bonus. However, the synching to the tablet just isn't working, whatever I try, so I've decided to go the slightly longer way and access them over the web, which so far seems to be okay. No idea what the problem is, but the laptop says it's synched, as does the tablet, but nothing changes .

SaggyMaggyPoo said:

Thanks Shawn,

I tried a repair on the sticky notes, which didn't work, so I reset them, which did and I didn't lose any of the notes, which was a bonus. However, the synching to the tablet just isn't working, whatever I try, so I've decided to go the slightly longer way and access them over the web, which so far seems to be okay. No idea what the problem is, but the laptop says it's synched, as does the tablet, but nothing changes .

Odd. Are you signed in to the laptop with the same Microsoft account?

Check to make sure "Share across devices" is turned on for the tablet.

Turn On or Off Share Across Devices for Apps in Window 10

Brink said:

Odd. Are you signed in to the laptop with the same Microsoft account?

Check to make sure "Share across devices" is turned on for the tablet.

Turn On or Off Share Across Devices for Apps in Window 10

Well as far as I can see I have sharing turned on - it's changed in Windows 11, there is no 'Shared Experiences' under 'System' in Settings. But I've tried again and still no joy. Trying to access the updated Sticky Notes through Outlook on the tablet only worked once too.

To be honest, my reason for trying to do this was to make sure I don't lose Sticky Notes if I have a laptop failure (as my partner did recently), not that I had a real desire to synchronise between the laptop and tablet. Before you ask - I have never managed to get the plumsqlite method of backing up Sticky Notes to work either.

So I've resorted to Plan B: copy the Sticky Notes to a spreadsheet and back this up. Maybe in time I'll stop using the notes altogether.

Thanks for your suggestions though Shawn. You can't win 'em all

SaggyMaggyPoo said:

Well as far as I can see I have sharing turned on - it's changed in Windows 11, there is no 'Shared Experiences' under 'System' in Settings. But I've tried again and still no joy. Trying to access the updated Sticky Notes through Outlook on the tablet only worked once too.

To be honest, my reason for trying to do this was to make sure I don't lose Sticky Notes if I have a laptop failure (as my partner did recently), not that I had a real desire to synchronise between the laptop and tablet. Before you ask - I have never managed to get the plumsqlite method of backing up Sticky Notes to work either.

So I've resorted to Plan B: copy the Sticky Notes to a spreadsheet and back this up. Maybe in time I'll stop using the notes altogether.

Thanks for your suggestions though Shawn. You can't win 'em all

Do your sticky notes sync online for another access option?

Access and Use Windows 10 Sticky Notes Online on the Web

Hi Shawn,

Well I've tried again. Tried installing the OneNote app on the tablet, logging into the same account as I am logged into Sticky Notes on my laptop. My Notes don't appear at all in OneNote. I can't see anything on this app that is related to sharing across devices.

On my laptop, under System Settings, I can't find the Shared Experiences option (I found it on a previous occasion but can't remember where; this seems to have changed in W11).

I used your link above to go into the OneNote/StickyNotes website on the tablet. The good news is that I can see my notes there; the bad news is that they are not synchronising.

I have 5 sticky notes, when I synch them, I get an error on 2 of these. The notes that show the error both have text enhancements (bold and underline) on them. The notes without any enhancements don't show an error. Maybe this is the problem?

One of the notes that I can see on the tablet (via www.onenote) is definitely an older version as I updated this particular note today, before I tried this again.

Do I also need to be signed in to One Drive on my laptop for this to work?

Odd. You should only need to be signed in to Sticky Notes and online with the same Microsoft account for them to sync.