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There are many good note-taking and reminder apps out there. For example, my favorite is . Which, by the way, has recently started working on a competing platform - IOS 🙂
But it's not about him now. Today's short review is written for owners of Samsung devices who already have a pre-installed application on board - S Memo.
Usually I am skeptical about the software preinstalled by the hardware manufacturer. But this case is rather an exception. Notes Samsung allows you to do no worse than in competitive applications (Kip or, for example). The user is offered a nice, clear interface and standard functionality for a note taker.
S Memo lets you create notes using your keyboard, stylus, or voice. It is also possible to add images to them.
When you launch S Memo, you can open an existing note or create a new one. To do this, click on the pencil icon in the upper right corner or on the letter “T” to create a new text note.
Drawing is, of course, very cool. But doing it with your finger is not very convenient. If you have a stylus (S Pen, for example. The coolest thing, by the way. The input pen has a pressure-sensitive tip), then the possibilities are very good. There are many different pen settings. Don't forget about the eraser tool, which erases your drawings.
Inserting photos into a note is also easy. You just need to click on the button in the lower left corner of the screen and select the place where the picture lies.
If you are too lazy to write, you can create voice notes. Press the microphone button and then the record button. You can stop, pause or cancel the recording.
Ready notes can be sent by mail, exported to .jpg, .pdf, .snb formats (native S Memo format). They can be saved to Google Drive, memory card and anywhere else. This is Android, it gives you freedom of choice 🙂
So, if you are the owner of a smartphone or tablet from Samsung, my advice to you is to take a closer look at such an interesting application as S Memo. To create a simple note and Samsung gives you the hands of this program.
Your LifeDroid
10.12.2011
Galaxy Note as a camcorder
For my taste, it's just great. Of course, specialized video cameras will shoot better. But for "home" use - quite.
Galaxy Note as a reader
Put Cool Reader, read a book. Convenient, comfortable. Basically, my favorite screen size for reading. All the way, I prefer five-inch readers, such as PocketBook 360 or Sony 350. Although it is still much more comfortable to read on e-ink. Again, the right e-ink books have screens - they are matte.
Galaxy Note as a video player
Such a resolution and on such a small screen - the picture simply cannot be bad. And the video looks really great. Alas, watching a video is exactly where the glossiness of the screen is very felt. On bright / contrasting cartoons, this is not too noticeable, but it interferes with watching movies / TV shows to the fullest.
Galaxy Note as an audio player
If you listen to good headphones - good, if you listen to bad - bad. Complete earphones (for some reason white color) did not impress at all.
Galaxy Note as a toy
Except for everyone (except me) who was tired of Angry Birds, I didn’t have time to have fun with anything. As you might expect, playing birds on such a screen and with such powerful hardware is a pleasure.
Iron
It has already been said a hundred thousand five hundred times that the Galaxy Note has very powerful hardware and everything flies. Well, yes. I agree. What else to expect from a super flagship.
Galaxy Note externally
Of course, this is a complete and unconditional wow. Unusually large size, brightest screen (eh .. why is it so glossy?)
I was surprised by the back cover. Tonya-yusenky plastic mask. When the device is assembled - a monolith, no question. But assembly and disassembly - you are waiting for a crunch in half.
Tactile device is very pleasant. I already spoke about the surprising slippery side edges.
Minor cons
Once I managed to hang Galaxy Note. It's good to hang it with taste. I had to pry the cover off and remove the battery. What is funny, it happened exactly when I was trying to shoot a video demonstrating the operation of the device.
When will they finally learn how to make infinitely small batteries with an infinitely large capacity? How long can you wait?? With such a screen, even a record 2500 mAh will not be much! I did not measure the operating time, but the device usually survived until the evening (except for the day when I used it as an autonavigator).
The device has two touch keys - "Menu" and "Back" ("Home" - "iron"). So you can’t poke at them with a stylus! Does not work! On the screen - to health, that's what it was invented for. On the "Home" key, you can also poke. But the "Menu" and "Back" do not poke.
The S Pen has made the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 unique among Android flagship phones, and the S Note app has increased the power and capabilities of the S Pen. This application is capable of more than just taking notes. This tutorial will help you master the app already installed by Samsung on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
In this tutorial, we'll show S Note users how to get more out of this powerful app. Read all the tips to master S Note and use it at work, school and everyday life. We'll start with the basics and then talk about some of the really great features.
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Most people who have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and tried to use the program have probably already seen the tips for beginners. If not, open the app and follow the instructions. Here are some tips on how to set up your S Note if you've already gone through the setup wizard.
Get started with the S Note app from Settings. The icon with three dots in the upper right corner will open the menu. Click "Settings" and a screen will appear at the bottom.
Setting up an account will allow users to sync their recordings to one or two accounts. Select the Samsung account you created for yourself when you wanted to download apps in Galaxy Apps. This app also syncs with Evernote. It's a matter of choice, but I chose the Samsung account because it keeps my notes separate from Evernote. I plan to only use S Note on a Samsung phone, so I chose it to keep my Evernote account clean of files that I can't use on other devices.
Click the "Edit" button on the thumbnail to select a new post cover. S Note offers a few built-in options, but there's also the option to download others from Galaxy Apps. Choose one of them and set as default. Can be set in portrait or landscape mode. Choose whichever suits you. Click "OK" when you're done.
For more options, click on the menu in the top left corner (three horizontal lines). At the bottom, in the menu that appears on the left side of the screen, select "More options." The application will show three more available functions:
Click on each of them and install if you want to use them, or just select the third one to add new page templates. The first two are installed immediately, unlike Background images, where each of the templates must be installed separately. There are a lot of pictures available here. Once installed, you will use it constantly. You can always go back and download more. Hold scrolling down to switch to landscape mode.
When you open a note in S Note, the toolbar can hide and look like the top third of the picture above, with no tools visible at all. If there is no toolbar there, click on the note and it will appear (see the middle part of the picture above). To open the entire toolbar, click on the pencil icon in the top left corner. The entire toolbar will appear (see the bottom of the picture above).
The S Note app on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 offers two input methods. You can choose one of them. Create a new note by clicking the plus button on top. The user can also open an already created note.
When a user first creates a new note in S Note, the app shows you how to import pictures from the camera. More on this below. The application then asks which input method to choose. Ways can be:
We prefer to use only the S Pen, because it is always with you and copes with writing notes better than a finger. If you often use your finger to draw, choose the second method.
To change the method after the first use, open a note or create a new one, then tap the finger icon at the top of the screen (as shown above). It's the third icon from the right that looks like a palm. If you see a crossed out circle on top of your palm, then you can only enter data with the S Pen. If there is no crossed out circle in the palm of your hand, then you use the second method.
Sometimes when we take notes, the phone is not suitable for use, so Samsung has made it possible to transfer handwritten notes to paper or a whiteboard. To do this, use the camera through the app.
When you first create a new note by clicking the "+" icon in the top right corner, the app shows you how to transfer photos from your camera or photos to your phone. If you've already done this once, you won't be able to watch this tutorial, so we'll show you how to do it now.
The toolbar has a camera icon between a large T, which is needed for entering text using the keyboard, and a cloud. Click on the camera and S Note will open the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Camera app or any other camera app you have installed. If this is your first time doing this, the graphic will show you how to use the camera features in S Note. Read the helpful tips and click OK to clear the screen.
The camera app has five icons:
Use flash in dark rooms and manual mode if the camera itself cannot find the border of the page you want to import. Click on the grid and it will help you straighten the image.
If you already have the photo you want on your phone, click the camera icon in the S Note toolbar and select the Gallery icon. To take a new photo, press the capture button.
After you take a picture, the application will try to find the page boundaries on its own. If it can do this, it will transfer the picture to S Note. If not, it will put the photo in S Note so that the user can edit it himself.
Resize the photo however you want by dragging one of the blue circles in the corners. A circle above the photo connected to a line will rotate the photo. Click on it and drag to expand the photo. The toolbar is reflected at the bottom or top of the photo. Swipe left and right if you want to see all the editing tools, for example:
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has a fairly wide S Note widget on the home screen. Many users change their home screen but never get the widget back after removing it. Some people change their launcher, for example, to Google Now Launcher, which makes the Note 4 look like Lollipop phones.
To install the S Note widget again, find a space on your home screen that is wide enough for the app to take up four columns and one row. If you are using the factory version of Samsung Touchwiz, then tap on the home screen and select the widget. If not, do whatever it takes to install the widget. With Google Now Launcher, you will need to do all the same steps as with Samsung Touchwiz. Find a group of S Note widgets and click on them. The S Note has two widget options, depending on the amount of space on the home screen. The 4x1 widget shows a row of five icons (see image below):
The 4x2 widget shows the same buttons plus the user's notebooks. If S Note contains more than a few notes, the widget can arrange them more compactly, side by side. The user can also resize the widget to show more notebooks on the screen.
Add one of the widgets to your home screen by tapping and holding your finger on it. The widget wizard will disappear and the home screen will be ready for you to install the widget. Move your finger to the place where you want to place it. In the place where lines with circles appear, the user will be able to increase the size of the S Note widget. This can only be done with a 4x2 widget. Increase its size to 4x3 or 4x4. Click on a notebook and the widget will open it in S Note.
The default pen color and size won't appeal to all users, so S Note has given users the ability to choose their own pen settings. To do this, open a note and click on the large pen picture in the top left corner. If the S Note is in another mode, the pen icon will look like a small black pen. In pen customization mode, it looks like a drawing of a real S Pen. Tap the black icon to put the app in pen mode and tap the pen icon again if you want to access settings.
All available types of handles are shown in the table. The selected knobs are stored in the Presets table. Initially, the Presets table in S Note is empty, so select a pen, click on the plus at the top of the pen settings, which is next to the cross. So, you will add a knob to the Presets table.
S Pen offers 7 types of pens. Select one of them, then set the thickness of the handle using the slider below the handles. Then select a color in the corresponding box. Arrows show more pen color options. A square with all the colors of the rainbow will help users choose their unique color, even if it's not on the list. This feature is most useful when painting or color matching a photo.
Once you've created some pen templates, click on the Presets table to view them. Click on one of them, the window will close and you can write or draw with the selected pen.
There is also an eraser, but it can only be opened from the main page of the application. You can also put it in the settings section of the pen. To select the size of the eraser, click and hold the button with its image on the main toolbar. A new section will appear with a choice of size and an "Erase All" button that will help clear the entire page.
There is also a text customization section. Click on the T icon, which turns on the text input tool using the keyboard. Press and hold to bring it to the settings section. The section shows examples of selected fonts. In the picture we see buttons for choosing a font, its size and three buttons for choosing bold, italic and underlined. The color selection section is located at the bottom of the settings field.
At the bottom of the S Note screen, you'll see a round button with three pens. Click on it to bring up the Pen Templates section. This is faster than opening the pen settings section in the top toolbar. But it will not appear if the user has not added pen templates to it.
S Note has a feature called Magnified Note. It opens a window at the bottom of the screen. What the user writes or draws in this window is reflected on the screen. Move the other window to the note entry position to start drawing or writing. The window has a zoom feature that the user can access by clicking and holding the triangle in the lower right corner of the window. Drag the window to enlarge or shrink it. The smaller the window, the more detailed the user will be able to see what is written or drawn.
The zoom window can move up and down, allowing you to write at the bottom of the screen when the window is on a note. To do this, press and hold the center of the toolbar in the zoom window at the bottom of the screen and drag it up or down.
The buttons on the toolbar are located as follows:
On the right side of the bottom panel, there is a blue pentagon. When you write something in the window and get close to the right edge, this blue pentagon sees it and automatically moves the top window to the right. When you get to the end of the page, this thing works like the ENTER key on your keyboard and moves the window one line down and to the left so the user can start writing on a new line.
Want to draw something and show someone else how to do it? S Note will record the drawing process.
To see the note menu, open it and click the three vertical dots on the toolbar. Select "Record" and a small toolbar will appear on the screen. Press the red button to write and start writing or drawing. To stop recording, press the button again. Play the recording using the corresponding button. You can also remove a note from the toolbar. Save and open it later to show you how to draw something when you want to teach someone how to draw.
The recording toolbar can move. Click and drag the edge of the toolbar to the left and move it across the screen.
Unfortunately, there is no way to send this video file anywhere, you can only view it in S Note.
Using Android's data transfer feature, you can transfer your notes to other apps that support PDF, Text, or JPG formats. There are a couple of ways to do this.
From the main page of S Note, click on the "Settings" button located at the top of the note cover. The menu will appear. Select Export, and the program will transfer the note in JPG or PDF format to the S Note Export folder, which is located on the phone's memory card.
The second way to transfer notes from S Note to other applications is to select "Transfer using". The user can choose one of four additional formats.
Choose one and the app will use Android's built-in sharing feature. Select an application from the list in the menu that appears. For example, save a note to Evernote, email it to Gmail, or upload it to Dropbox.
One of the greatest things smartphones offer is the ability to take notes. Gone are the days when inspiration fizzled out just because you couldn't find a laptop, and you can now carry your shopping list in your pocket all day, every day. Of course, for mobile note taking to be effective, you need the right app, so let's take a look at the best note taking app for Android!
color note
(downloads: 6687)
First on our list is ColorNotes. It's a simple note taking app that lets you take text notes, lists, and more. Its feature is hidden in the name, you can change the background color of a note to keep it organized, a feature implemented long before Google Keep came out. Some other features include calendar support, data backup to internal media and cloud storage, multiple reminder features, and more. And the best feature of the app, it's completely free!
Evernote
(downloads: 1481)
Evernote is top notch when it comes to note-taking apps. It's loaded with features of all kinds, including a variety of note types, notepad support, organizational features, interaction with other apps, and sharing notes, and of course, it's cross-platform. If you order an additional subscription, you also get more storage, offline access, PDF notes, and more. This is a powerful and worth considering app if you need a little more than just a basic sticky note app.
Fast Notepad
(downloads: 2010)
Fast NotePad is a relatively new app in the note-taking market, but it's garnering a solid amount of positive feedback. This app is inspired by the Material Design of the latest Androids and is a fast and functional note taking app. There are no extra features, no ads, nothing to make the app bigger than it needs to be. Fast NotePad is very fast and good enough for what it's supposed to do. This is a great option for people who just need a simple and quick fix. Of course, you must understand that the high speed of the application turns into a lack of some functions.
FiiNote
(downloads: 2270)
FiiNote is from the same developers that made FreeNote, an app that made our lists years ago. FiiNote is a very fun note taking app that provides a more authentic experience. It comes with a grid background that supports drawings, so you can take notes by writing or drawing if you want. You can also add images, video, or voice if you like. It's a free to use app that comes with a decent range of features for those looking for a hybrid note taking experience.
Google Keep
(downloads: 891)
Google Notes is an app called Google Keep and you'll hear recommendations for it from a lot of people. The app uses a colorful Material design inspired by Android 5 and above, so it looks great and offers great functionality. Google Keep displays notes as cards that you can quickly scroll through and select from. The application is integrated with Google Drive, which allows you to add voice and photos to your notes, you can also share notes and set reminders. It's a great note-taking app that offers just enough features to be very useful, but not so much that it's too complicated.
lecture notes
(downloads: 1448)
LectureNotes is a popular, highly rated, and powerful note-taking application. This application is not only focused on general notes, it is directed towards things like academic and professional use. It was one of the earliest apps to include stylus support, and is still one of the best to date. The application has support for OneNote and Evernote, supports PDF, audio and video recording (for recording lectures or meetings), and much, much more. This is seriously a very good app.
Notepad+
(downloads: 1938)
NotePad+ bills itself as an all-in-one app for taking notes, drawing, sketching, and more. This application is somewhat different from the others on our list due to its diverse nature. You can effortlessly go from scribble to proper note, or you can have the best of both worlds. The app comes with a variety of color themes, unlimited notes (limited only by your device's available memory), multi-page notes, and even passcode features for security.
OneNote
(downloads: 612)
OneNote comes to the app market from the Microsoft shop floor and is a standalone note-taking app that runs on OneDrive, much like Google Keep runs on Google Drive. The app has tons of features including organization elements, cross-platform support, widgets, built-in Android features, some interaction features, and support for voice, text, photos in your notes. This is quite a powerful application and a must have if you use Microsoft products.
simple notes
(downloads: 475)
Simplenote, as the name suggests, is a simple note-taking app. Similar to Fast Note, the app intentionally removes a variety of features that you'll find in other apps in favor of speed and helps keep the app lightweight. Unlike Fast Note, Simplenote has some other features. The app offers cross-device sync as well as an organization system that works with a variety of markers to easily find notes. All this is also completely free.
somnote
(downloads: 1247)
Last, but certainly not least, SomNote closes our list. It's a note-taking app that offers quite a lot of features and caters for long-term notes rather than simple things like grocery lists or quick reminders. The app has a folder system for easy organization, a locking mechanism to keep your notes safe, and theming options. There are also sync features that allow you to update data between devices. It's a good, reliable app that does what it's supposed to do.
After buying a new Samsung instead of an old smartphone, you will need to restore all data from the phone book. This can be done manually by entering each contact individually. However, if you are a sociable person and there are a lot of numbers stored on your device, this procedure may take a lot of time to complete. That is why the Android OS provides special tools that allow you to transfer contacts from phone to phone in a matter of minutes.
In addition to manually copying each number, you can transfer contacts between Android devices in the following ways:
The easiest and fastest way to transfer numbers from Samsung to Samsung is to copy them to the SIM card. To move contacts from phone to SIM, you need to:
The copying process will take some time. After its completion, all the numbers available on the old smartphone will be recorded on a SIM card. You will only have to install the card in a new mobile phone.
The only disadvantage of this method is that SIM cards have a limited capacity, that is, all contacts on the SIM card may not fit. The way out of this situation is to create a file with a backup of the phone book and then copy it to a new smartphone:
Considering how to copy contacts from Samsung to Samsung, the Smart Switch Mobile program should be highlighted. It allows you to back up user data, update Samsung Galaxy firmware, and transfer information from one mobile device to another.
Before transferring contacts from Android to Android, you will need to install Smart Switch Mobile on the receiving and transmitting devices, as well as activate wireless modules (transfer will be via Wi-Fi). After that you need:
After copying is completed, all numbers from the phone book will be displayed on the new smartphone.
To transfer phone numbers from an old mobile phone to a new one, you can use Google cloud storage. The procedure will be as follows:
Having figured out how to transfer all contacts from Samsung to Samsung, you can easily copy all the information from the phone book to a new device. And if you have a backup of numbers or if synchronization is enabled, you can restore contacts even if your phone is lost or out of order.
