The S Pen made the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 unique among flagship Android phones, and the S Note app increased the power and capabilities of the S Pen. This app does more than just take notes. This tutorial will help you master the application 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 cover some of the really powerful features.

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Sync S Notes with Samsung or Evernote

Most people who have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and have tried to use the program have probably already seen the beginner tips. 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 to the Settings Wizard.

Get started with the S Note app from Settings. The three dot icon in the top right corner will open a menu. Click Settings and a screen will appear at the bottom.

Setting up an account will allow users to sync their posts with one or two accounts. Select the Samsung account you created for yourself when you wanted to download apps to Galaxy Apps. This app also syncs with Evernote. It's a matter of choice, but I chose the Samsung account because it stores my notes separately from Evernote. I plan to only use S Note on my Samsung phone, so I chose it to keep my Evernote account clear of files that I wouldn't be able to use on other devices.

Select your notebook covers and pages

Click on the "Change" button on the sample to select a new cover for your notes. The S Note offers several built-in options, but there's also the option to download others from Galaxy Apps. Select one of them and set it as default. Can be set in portrait or landscape mode. Choose any one that suits you. Click "OK" when finished.

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 features.” The application will show three more available functions:

• Idea Sketch makes it easy to sketch objects in your notes.
• Easy Chart makes converts hand-drawn graphs, charts or tables into digital format.
• Background image will allow users to add new images.

Click on each one 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 huge number of pictures available here. Once installed, you will use it constantly. You can always come back and download more. Hold the scroll at the bottom to switch to landscape mode.

How to pull out the toolbar

When you open a note in S Note, the toolbar may 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 image 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 image above).

You can use not only the S Pen, but also your finger

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 at the top. The user can also open an already created note.

When a user first creates a new note in S Note, the app shows how to import pictures from the camera. More on this below. The application then asks which input method to choose. The methods can be:

• S Pen only – Using this method, you can only write and draw on the screen using the S Pen. You can only control the application with your fingers.
• S Pen and Finger Input Mode – With this method, you can write or draw not only with the S Pen, but also with your finger.

We prefer to use the S Pen only because it's always with us and does a better job of taking notes than your 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). This is the third icon from the right that looks like a palm. If you see a crossed out circle on top of your palm, it means you can only enter data using the S Pen. If there is no crossed out circle on your palm, then you use the second method.

Sometimes when we take notes, the phone is not suitable for use, so Samsung has given the option 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 tapping 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 now we'll tell you how to do it.

On the toolbar there is a camera icon between the big T, which is needed for entering text using the keyboard, and the cloud. Tap on the camera and the 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, the illustration will show you how to use the camera features in S Note. Read the helpful tips and click OK to clear the screen.

There are five icons in the camera app:

1. Flash Button – Press to turn the flash on or off.
2. Changing the photo mode - this button looks like a square with the words AUTO and MANUAL inside. Using it you can switch between automatic and manual mode. This is necessary to transfer the image. You select a page, and the camera only transmits it and does not add anything.
3. Grid – With its help you can show or hide viewfinder hints.
4. Capture Button – Press to take a photo.
5. Gallery – tap to open Gallery and select a photo already on your phone that you want to transfer to your notes.

Use flash in dark rooms and manual shooting mode if the camera itself cannot find the edges of the page you want to import. Click on the hash mark and it will help you align the image.

If you already have the photo you want on your phone, tap the camera icon in the S Note toolbar and select the Gallery icon. To take a new photo, press the capture button.

After you've taken a photo, the app will try to find the page boundaries on its own. If it can do this, it will transfer the photo to the S Note. If not, it will put the photo in S Note so the user can edit it themselves.

Resize the photo as you like by dragging one of the blue circles that are in the corners. The circle above the photo connected to the line will rotate the photo. Click on it and drag to expand the photo. The toolbar appears at the bottom or top of the photo. Slide left and right if you want to see all the editing tools, for example:

• Properties - Shows basic information about the photo and allows users to change the width, height, aspect ratio and move to the background of the image, so other objects, text or text displayed at the top can be dragged forward and placed in front of the objects. You can also frame text or add effects such as negative, black and white photo, sketch and others.
• Transform for editing - turns the picture into lines that the user can edit. The app will do this and show you a line-by-line version of the image (see image below).
• Crop – crops the note so you can get rid of unnecessary parts of the picture.
• Cut – Cuts out the picture so you can paste it anywhere else in the note.
• Copy – Copies the image, leaving the original in place, so you can later paste it anywhere in the note.
• Delete – erases the image from the page.

Place the S Note widget on your home screen

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 deleting 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 wide enough free space on your home screen for the app to span 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 you need to do 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 you have on your home screen. The 4x1 widget shows a row of five icons (see image below):

• S Note – opens the application.
• Pen Note – Opens a note ready to be used with a pen or finger.
• Camera - Opens the camera so you can import photos into S Note.
• Text – opens a text version of the note so that the user can type text using the keyboard.
• Audio – the user can take notes using voice, which the application transforms into text.

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 to side. The user can also resize the widget so that more notebooks are visible on the screen.

Add one of the widgets to your home screen by pressing 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 the 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.

Set up your S Pen

The default pen color and size won't appeal to all users, so S Note gives users the ability to choose their own pen settings. To do this, open the 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 into pen mode and tap the pen icon again if you want to access the settings.

All available types of handles are shown in the table. The selected knobs are saved 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 located next to the cross. So, you will add a handle 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 under the handles. Then select a color in the appropriate window. The 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 is not on the list. This feature is most useful when drawing or when matching colors in a photo.

Once you have created several 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 place it in the pen settings section. To select the eraser size, click on the button with its image located on the main toolbar and hold it. A new section will appear with the ability to select a size and an “Erase All” button, which will help clear the entire page.

There is also a text customization section. Click on the T icon, which turns on the keyboard text entry tool. Press and hold to move it to the settings section. The section shows examples of the selected fonts. In the picture we see buttons for selecting the font, its size, and three buttons for selecting bold, italic and underlined. The color selection section is at the bottom of the settings field.

At the bottom of the S Note screen you will see a round button with a picture of three knobs. Click on it to display a section with handle templates. This is faster than opening the pen settings section in the top toolbar. But it will not appear if the user has not added handle templates to it.

Handwriting mode with magnification for easier drawing

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 another window to where you type in a note to start drawing or writing. The window has a zoom option that the user can use by pressing and holding the triangle in the lower right corner of the window. Drag the window to make it larger or smaller. The smaller the window, the more detailed the user will be able to see what is written or drawn.

The magnification window can move up and down, this will allow you to write at the bottom of the screen when the window is on a note. To do this, press and hold the center part of the toolbar in the zoom window at the bottom of the screen and move it up or down.

The buttons on the toolbar are located as follows:

1. Left arrow – moves the section to the upper left part of the note.
2. Right arrow – moves to the right.
3. Arrow in the form of a mirror letter L - moves the window to a new line and moves it to the left, like the ENTER key on a keyboard.
4. The button for moving the panel is the button described above that moves the panel itself.
5. Up arrow – moves the window one line higher.
6. Down arrow – moves down one line.
7. X – closes the panel so the user can draw on the note itself.

On the right side of the bottom panel there is a blue pentagon. When you write something in a window and move 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 a keyboard and moves the window one line down and to the left so the user can start writing on a new line.

Record the drawing

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. Click on the red write button and start writing or drawing. To stop recording, press the button again. Play the recording using the appropriate button. You can also delete a note from the toolbar. Save and open it later to show 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 around the screen.

Unfortunately, there is no way to send this video file anywhere; you will only be able to view it in S Note.

Transfer notes to other apps

Using Android's transfer capability, 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 S Note home page, click on the Settings button located at the top of the note's cover. A 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 apps is to select Transfer Using. The user can choose one of four additional formats.

1. S Note file.
2. File Image.
3. PDF file.
4. Text.

Select one and the app will use Android's built-in information transfer feature. Select an application from the list in the menu that appears. For example, save a note in Evernote, send it via Gmail, or upload it to Dropbox.

Samsung Galaxy Note - Review of a very large smartphone

10.12.2011

Galaxy Note as a video camera

For my taste, it's just superb. Of course, specialized video cameras will take better pictures. But for “home” use it’s fine.

Galaxy Note as an e-reader

I installed Cool Reader and read a book. Convenient, comfortable. Basically my favorite screen size for reading. I always 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 correct e-ink books have matte screens.

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 noticeable. This is not too noticeable on bright/contrasting cartoons, but it completely interferes with watching movies/series.

Galaxy Note as an audio player

If you listen with good headphones, it’s good, if you listen with bad ones, it’s bad. The supplied headphones (white for some reason) did not impress me at all.

Galaxy Note as a toy

Apart from everyone (except me) being bored with Angry Birds, I didn’t have time to entertain myself with anything. As you might expect, playing birdies on such a screen and with such powerful hardware is a pleasure.

Iron

It has already been said one hundred thousand five hundred times that the Galaxy Note has very powerful hardware and everything flies. Well, yes. Agree. What else to expect from a super flagship.

Galaxy Note externally

Of course, this is a complete and utter wow. Unusually large size, brightest screen (eh.. why is it so glossy?)

The back cover surprised me. Tonya is a tiny piece of plastic. When the device is assembled, it is a monolith, no question. But assembling and disassembling - you just expect it to snap in half.

The device is tactilely very pleasant. I already talked about the surprising slippery side edges.

Minor cons

Once I managed to hang the Galaxy Note. It’s good to hang it like that, tastefully. I had to peel off the cover and take out the battery. What’s funny is that this happened exactly when I was trying to shoot a video demonstrating the operation of the device.

When will they finally learn to make infinitely small batteries with infinitely large capacity? How long can you wait?? With such a screen, even a record 2500 mAh will not be too much! I didn’t measure the operating time, but the device usually survived until the evening (except for the day when I used it as a car navigator).

The device has two touch keys - "Menu" and "Back" ("Home" - "iron"). So you can’t poke them with a stylus! Does not work! On the screen - for your health, that's what it was invented for. You can also click on the "Home" key. But “Menu” and “Back” don’t work.

Hello to all readers of the LifeDroid website!
There are many good apps for taking notes and reminders. For example, my favorite is . Which, by the way, has recently started working on a competing platform - iOS :)
But this is not about him now. Today’s short review is written for owners of Samsung devices that have a pre-installed application on board - S Memo.

I'm usually skeptical about software pre-installed 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, intuitive 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 this with your finger is not very convenient. If you have a stylus (S Pen, for example. Coolest thing, by the way. The input pen has a pressure-sensitive tip), then the possibilities open up to you very well. There are many different pen settings available. We haven’t forgotten 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 is.

If you're too lazy to write, you can create voice notes. Press the microphone button and then the record button. You can stop, pause, or cancel recording.
Ready notes can be sent by mail, exported to .jpg, .pdf, .snb formats (native S Memo format). They can be saved on 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, Samsung gives you this program.
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Depending on the model, Samsung service memos usually exist with the following extensions: .smm, .spd

They exist in the following folder: /storage/emulated/0/.ActionMemo or SNote Data folders

A suitable workaround would be to convert Samsung notes to a text file or something similar, then extract the data as text files from either the PC or the smartphone itself. The following workarounds can extract plain text from a note:

1. Method 1 Extracting text from a memo

• open the note you need to convert and click on it so that you see the cursor,
• Click and hold your cursor (or anywhere there is text) and select Select All.
• touch and hold selected text and select Copy
• open a word processor (Kingsoft Word in my case) and paste the text.

Save and then export to Google as plain text.

2. Method 2 Saving by exporting

open your Memos, click on more (top right corner on my phone) and then select share.

You then select (one at a time) the note you want to save/read/open etc. and a screen will appear asking you where you want to send the note.

You can extract them from mail, for example forecast

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The following information applies to Memo application version 1.0.4517634 on Android 4.4.2.

Memory files are located in /mnt/shell/emulated/0/BeamMemo and have a .memo extension.

Each .memo file is a zip archive that contains a media folder and a memo_content.xml file. The note text is located in the /contents/content node of the xml document.

I was able to find files using adb with the command:

Adb shell "ls -Ra 2>/dev/null | grep -i memo"

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I was looking for an option to open .memo files transferred from my Android mobile phone. The transfer was easy as I only had about 25 notes and I did it one by one using a bluetooth device for mobiles and laptops.

After receiving the files in the PC, opening was a problem. Did some digging and found that each .memo is basically a .zip file containing an .xml file as well as a folder for the media. Hence, renamed the extension of these .memo to .zip and then unzipped to get these resulting files. This opened the .xml file to read in a human readable format the contents of my .memo file. Thanks for sharing the information that helped me solve this problem.

One of the greatest things smartphones offer is the ability to take notes. Gone are the days when inspiration fades away simply because you can't find your laptop, and you can now carry your shopping list in your pocket all day, every day. Of course, for mobile notes to be effective, you'll need the right app, so let's take a look at the best notes apps for Android!

ColorNote
(downloads: 6687)
First on our list is ColorNotes. It's a simple notes app that lets you take text notes, lists, and more. Its feature is hidden in its 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 systems, there are several reminder features, and much more. And the best feature of the app is that it is completely free!

Evernote
(downloads: 1481)
Evernote ranks high when it comes to note-taking apps. It's loaded with features of all kinds, including a variety of note types, notepad support, organizational capabilities, interaction with other apps and note sharing, and of course, it's a cross-platform app. If you order an additional subscription, you also get more storage, offline access, PDF notes, and more. This is a powerful and worthwhile 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 on the note-taking app market, but it's garnering a solid amount of positive reviews. 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 that will bloat the app beyond necessary. Fast NotePad is very fast and quite good for what it is designed to do. This is a great option for people who just want a quick and easy solution. Of course, you should understand that the high speed of the application results in a lack of some functions.

FiiNote
(downloads: 2270)
FiiNote is from the same developers who made FreeNote, an app that topped our lists many 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, videos or voice if you wish. It's free to use and comes with a decent set 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 a lot of people recommend it. The app uses a colorful Material design inspired by Android 5 and above, so it looks great and offers great functionality. Google Keep shows notes as cards that you can quickly scroll through and select. The app 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 enough features to be very useful, but not so much that it feels overly complicated.

Lecture Notes
(downloads: 1448)
LectureNotes is a popular, highly rated, and powerful note taking app. This app isn't just focused on general notes, it's aimed towards things like academic and professional applications. It was one of the earliest apps to include stylus support and is still one of the best today. 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 app is somewhat different from the others on our list due to its diverse nature. You can playfully go from scribbling to a proper note, or you can get 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 Microsoft and is a standalone note-taking app that runs on OneDrive, similar to how Google Keep runs on Google Drive. The app has a ton of features including organization elements, cross-platform support, widgets, native 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.

Simplenote
(downloads: 475)
Simplenote, as the name suggests, is a simple note-taking app. Like Fast Note, the app has deliberately removed a variety of features that you'll find in other apps, in favor of speed and helping to keep the app lightweight. Unlike Fast Note, Simplenote has some other features. The app offers cross-device syncing, as well as an organization system that works with a variety of markers to make notes easy to find. All this is also completely free.

SomNote
(downloads: 1247)
Last, but certainly not least, SomNote closes our list. It's a notes app that offers quite a lot of features and caters to long-term notes rather than simple things like grocery lists or short reminders. The app has a folder system for easy organization, a locking mechanism to keep your notes safe, and theming options. There are also synchronization features that allow you to update data between devices. It's a good, reliable app that does what it's supposed to do.