Samsung Notes
A new Galaxy Note wouldn't be complete without some new note-taking features. Today, Samsung unveiled a refreshed Notes app that will sync with Microsoft's infinitely more popular and powerful OneNote app. (According to The Verge, the sync only goes one way, so you won't get OneNote files inside the Samsung Notes app.) It should also play nice with Outlook, making it simpler to email a quick doodle or use a handwritten signature. Samsung's own Reminders app, meanwhile, will sync with Outlook, Microsoft To-Do (its replacement for Wunderlist) and its Slack competitor Microsoft Teams.
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Sync
In addition, the new Samsung Notes app will let you capture scribbles and audio simultaneously. That means you can return to the note later, tap on something you've written and immediately jump to that point in the audio recording. We've seen this feature before in other note-taking applications such as Microsoft OneNote and Notability. Still, it should be a welcome addition for people who carry a Note phone and want a permanent record of their classes and meetings.
According to Samsung, the Notes app will straighten out your handwriting and keep everything organized in a new, simplified folder system. You'll also be able to annotate and highlight PDF files without downloading any extra software. All of these features will be available on the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra smartphones, as well as Samsung's new Galaxy Tab S7 and S7+ Android tablets.
Will they be enough to convert S-Pen sceptics? Or discourage them from buying an iPad, which is getting its own Pencil-centric upgrades in iPadOS 14? Maybe. The bigger challenge, I suspect, is getting S-Pen owners to use Samsung Notes as their primary note-taking app on a laptop or PC. Note syncing with Microsoft OneNote is a welcome addition, but suggests that Samsung is aware it can't compete with Evernote, Notion and other go-to apps on desktop.
Since I have been completely unable to find this information anywhere else, here, my friends, is how to make that S-Note/Evernote magic that Samsung was so keen on in pre-release. I’m on T-mobile, your interface may vary.
1. Sign in to Evernote. If you can’t find it, it’s hidden in the “Galaxy Plus” folder in your app tray.
How does sync work within Evernote? Evernote's service is arranged in such a way that every sync operation goes through Evernote Web. For instance, if you initiate a sync from an Evernote desktop application, any new or updated content will first be uploaded to Evernote Web, and only from there can it be downloaded to your other devices when a subsequent sync is initiated. This video shows how to sync S Note's with Evernote on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. This is very handy if you want to view notes created with S Note on Everno. If you ever need to keep notes synchronized with all your devices, you need Evernote. Evernote also works and synchronize's great with Samsung Galaxy Note S.
2. Find S-note. You can do what I did and search “S-Note” using the Google search bar. In addition to interesting Google stuff, it will call up a list of things on your phone, including apps. You can also find it in the app tray.
- A new Galaxy Note wouldn't be complete without some new note-taking features. Today, Samsung unveiled a refreshed Notes app that will sync with Microsoft's infinitely more popular OneNote platform.
- With Evernote, your notes sync across all your devices. Organize with notebooks and tags to find everything you need quickly. Taking notes has never been so easy. Evernote uses cookies to enable the Evernote service and to improve your experience with us.
Samsung Notes Sync To Onedrive
It can be difficult to locate because it’s in general population, outside both the Samsung and the Galaxy Plus folders. I’m not sure why.
2. Open S-Note and press the menu button
3. Do not select “Sync with Evernote.” As far as I can tell that does nothing, except possibly ensure that this note will never, ever, ever, sync with Evernote.
4. Select Settings
5. Select Sync Account
6. Change the account from Samsung to Evernote
7. There, that wasn’t too needlessly complicated and annoying, was it?
All my S-Notes are now synced with Evernote. Except for the one I foolishly hit the “Sync with Evernote” option on. That one will not sync, no matter what.
Good thing it wasn’t that important.
I loved my Note 1 and my Note 2 so hard. They were the best phones I ever owned. But the Note 3 seems to be buggy, counter-intuitive, and it doesn’t play well with its apps. When it could make things easier, it seems to do the opposite. For example, every screencap in this article I took with my phone, and drew on with the s-pen. When I went to upload the images to this post, one of them was randomly in a completely different folder from the others. The process by which I’d made it was no different from the others, but the picture that had the menu in it was buried in a folder called “edited images” while all the other images I had edited were in the folder called “screencaps.” What the crap?
I’d probably be less irritated by this if it weren’t the fifth or sixth time in the last two weeks where this phone has frustrated me needlessly.
It’s still the best phone on the market for my needs, and maybe Note 1 and Note 2 just spoiled me with being so easy and amazing every day. It feels like nobody tried to use the Note 3 as a phone before they released it. If they had, some of this shit would have been in a bug report.
Editor’s Note: I’ve since traded my Note 3 in for a Note 4, and I have to say that it takes after 1 and 2, in terms of being easy to use, and not being buggy. If you’re new to the note series, check out the 4, it’s an awesome phone.