Using the S Note Application on Windows

As I started exploring the features of the S Note application on my Windows device, I was excited to discover its capabilities and see how it could enhance my productivity. At first, I was a bit hesitant about using the app, but once it was synced, I realized that it was quite user-friendly.

One of the first things I noticed was the option to make changes to my note once it had been synced with the computer. This allowed me to customize and refine my notes in a way that wasn't possible before. For example, when I clicked on the "Edit" button, I had access to all sorts of options that I couldn't find on the computer, such as the ability to hold down on the bubbles to move them around and create new objects.

Another feature I was excited about was the handwriting recognition. I was able to use a stylus to write out my thoughts and ideas, and the app would automatically recognize and transcribe my writing into text. This was a huge time-saver for me, as I no longer had to spend time typing out my notes by hand.

As I continued to explore the S Note application, I came across some other cool features that caught my attention. One of these was the ability to take a formula and convert it into text using the lasso tool. This was a feature that Evan, who teaches me about new apps and features, had recently shown me in one of his videos.

To use this feature, I simply highlighted the formula with my finger and then selected the "Transform" option from the menu. From there, I could choose to refine the shape or text match, depending on what I wanted to do with the formula. In this case, I chose to go with the formula match, which automatically converted the formula into a recognizable format.

Another feature that was highlighted in Evan's video was the ability to use voice recordings, illustrations, and even the clipboard as part of my notes. On the computer, I have access to these features from the "Others" tab on the main menu, where I can also choose from a variety of pre-made templates and designs.

In order to sync my notes between devices, I had to go back to the PC and manually force the sync to update. This involved clicking on the "Sync Notes" option under the accounts settings menu, which pulled the synced note over to the computer. While this process wasn't instantaneous, it was satisfying to see that all of my work had been successfully transferred.

Finally, I took a closer look at some of the other features and options available in the S Note application on Windows. One thing I noticed was that when you hover over an album or page, a menu would pop up revealing what's inside it and offering various actions to perform. You can also right-click on an album and choose from a range of options, including exporting, moving, changing the cover, adding to favorites, and locking the document.

Despite its many features and capabilities, the S Note application still has some sync issues, which may cause problems when trying to transfer notes between devices. However, I hope that this article has been helpful in showing you how to use the S Note application on Windows and what it can do for your productivity. If you have any further questions or experience with the app, please don't hesitate to leave a comment below.

The author of this article would like to thank Evan for teaching them how to use some of the features of the S Note application, as well as offering feedback and suggestions throughout the process. The author also invites viewers to subscribe to their channel for more tutorials and reviews on smartphones and related technology.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday I'm gonna show you how to take your s notes from your Galaxy Note 8 to your Windows PC let's get started hey everybody welcome to tech with Bret where I help tech work for you and to get S note on your Windows PC you just need to head to the Microsoft Store once you are in here you need to search for s note and then you will see that it populates this as one of the application that's available so you just click on it and then you click install and now here I'm just going to open it up and click launch and you'll notice that this is very similar to the Galaxy Note 8 device so the same thing that you've seen over there you will be able to see over here on the windows computer so the first thing that you need to do is go up here to the top and click more and then go down here and click settings and then you want to click on the Samsung account and you want to choose the account you want to sync from so here I've chosen my Samsung Account at the top and then that will start pulling down all of the notes that you have synced through your Samsung Account over on the device and if you want to see how to do that and learn more about s note on the phone make sure you click the pop-up on-screen now we also have the Wi-Fi sync only so this setting is really more for the phones but it's still on here so just make sure that's turned on Wi-Fi sync only so then when you're connected to the Wi-Fi it's going to sync that info down here you have the change default cover so then I can see the cover I want whenever I create a new S note then we also have a bow S note and you can just see the version that you have there so one thing to note the first thing I want to talk about is when you are syncing through s note it is not as seamless as I would like it to be of course when you ever you save a note on your phone it automatically syncs but to sync on the computer each time I have had to go up here into the settings click on my Samsung Account and then right here choose sync notes and then that will allow the new notes to populate over here or send the notes from the PC to the S note on the phone so that's a little finicky but everything else works really great and up here you can cancel the sync and you can remove it so let's go back and show you all the settings that you have on here so starting up here in the top left of the screen we have the different categories so I have all action memos notes favorites and then different categories that I've changed and not categorized and then over here we have the search option and more I showed you that and then down on the bottom right we have the more so I can instantly start a text note I can start a voice recording and/or I can start a shape match so as soon as you click on one of these it opens up a new note and you can instantly begin doing whichever category you have selected and then here you just have the new note creation and you can scroll up and down with your mouse it's really easy as well as this is very touch friendly you have all those options there so I'm just gonna click create a new note over here in the bottom here it's gonna load up just like on the phone you have all your options up here at the top so if you want to zoom in and out you can go over here to the sidebar and double click and then it will show you the full page and if you want to zoom in you can hold down control and then scroll in and that will zoom in again as well and then I can use this on the sidebar to scroll up and down the page or just use the wheel that you have you can also go in with your fingers and you can pinch and zoom in and out so doing a quick tutorial of what options are available here up at the top we have the different handwriting tools so we have all the pens we had on the phone we can go in and change the exact color and style we have other colors over here and the thickness and you can see all those options there the next one is the erase tool so let's say I'm going to write on here real quick and we can use the mouse to do this or we can write if you have a touchscreen and then if you wanted to erase you can click the erase and when you do this it will erase by lines so you can see that it erases that way instead of just one little part at a time if you hold down on here you then have a few more options you have erased by lines you can adjust that you have a race touch area and you can also increase the thickness of the erase line and then down here you have erase all over here you have the text option so it will automatically pull open a text box and you can right in here and then down here at the bottom you have all of the different options so say I want to highlight this I can just do control a I can change the font very easily and then I can go over here and change the font size I have bold all the other options right there so and then I have the insert and image and when you click on this you only get one option it will open up the file browser of your computer and you can go in and find the exact image that you want to add and once you do that you just click open it then imports that image you can move it around you can adjust the size and you can also change the layout here so if I want to bring it to the front or the back I can do that I can also just crop it right here if you want to edit the image again you just right click on it with the mouse and then you have these options I also have cut copy and delete and if I want to do this with my finger on the screen I can just long press on the screen that selects the image I can move it around and adjust it all by hand as well so then over here we have the lasso tool so this is the Select mode so if I want to select some of this so let's say I want to select s note I can wrap around it there it has automatically selected and then I can click properties and do the same thing bring the front line I can adjust the thickness of the lines so there you go if I want it all to be the same thickness I can go in as well as change the color after the fact and then I just click over here to finish that so if you click on the lasso tool you can then lasso it or just choose the rectangle so let's do the rectangle again down here and we have the same options so then over here we have the undo and the redo so then down here in the bottom right we have the picture so if I click that it's automatically going to open up the camera and I have a app that's already using that but it will just open the camera you can take a picture here I can record audio so when I click record audio it will automatically start to read Kord and then I can click stop and then I can just go back in and then I can re listen to that recording and then down here we have add new page so if I want to add another page to this note I can do that I can go back here and let's say we want to zoom in and out we have all those options and if I want to easily see all the pages I just need to click here in the middle on the one and two and then I can see all the pages I have I can favorite this I can share it or edit it so maybe I want to delete one of the pages I click there delete or if I want to share one of the pages so I'm going to click this click export and then I can share it as a image JPEG a PNG or a PDF file and then we can also copy pages and move them around so if I hold down you can move them back and forth so that you can reorder the pages then up here at the top we have the save and we have the more options so I can add a page I can manage pages just like I showed you before you can go into the background settings so I can actually go and change the blank page the line grid to do I can make a diary page all of these options even changing the background of the color right here all on the desktop application so let's go and undo that change it back to blank and hit done then I click more I can record the sketching again not much to do here but when you when you start recording the sketching and you're done you click the record and then you can play it back and that's about all you can do you can't really export it or anything you'd have to use another application to actually record what is happening and then the last one here is you have tag so here you can add the tags you just add one at a time so I can click Add title click the plus and then I could choose another tag and keep adding those in so that you can organize all of your notes then down here in the bottom left we have the favorite pens so just like on the no date you can come in here and select your favorite types of pens style so I can click add and you can put multiple in here so when you're coloring or drawing or whatever you're doing you can easily just click on one of these right with that pen I can go back choose a different one and it's really easy to use those pens and makes it very user friendly then we can go down here and we have the shape match tool so then if I draw a shape it's automatically going to convert that into a more perfect shape so there I have an oval here I can do a square you can do lines and if it can't figure it out it just deletes it so make sure that it's as accurate as possible so a little fun thing that you can do and then over here we have the insert illustration so maybe I want to find a little clipart maybe I want to add a speech bubble here I can do that if I want to flip it around I can just move it around it's pretty flexible and how it works and so we can add a speech bubble there and in the illustrations area you also have the different shapes up here so if you want to find a specific shape you can do that all on this page and that is all the settings of the S note application so here I'm going to click Save we're gonna call this ABCs of s note so it shows up at the top of the list and then here we can click Share so it pulls up this page I go over here and click share and I can share it as an S note file so maybe you want to share this to your phone if you don't want to sync it you can share it as an image or a PDF and you can select all those at once so now that we've saved it I'm gonna go back and I'm going to click the more and we have a few options we again have share edit import PDF import s notes manage categories settings and help so I'm going to go back into the settings I'm gonna go into the Samsung account and I'm going to select sync notes and now I'm gonna show you when you go over to the phone when it sinks so over here we are on the Galaxy Note 8 and if you are not seeing your note sync here you can go up into the settings of S note then you can go to accounts and then you click settings and you can try turning off s note sync and back on and seeing if that will force it it may just take a couple minutes so be a little patient with it but then once it is done you'll see that your note has synced and up here at the top we have abc's of s notes so I'm just going to open that up and I want to make a few changes and then we're gonna sync it back to the computer so here we go to page one and you can see that when I click Edit I now have all the options I did over on the computer I can hold down and I can still move this as an object so maybe I want to move this down here I'm gonna hold down the bubble and move that as well and then I still have the undo options I'm gonna go back over here so I want to get rid of some of these circles that I made I hold down and then I just click delete delete and then maybe I don't like how the handwriting looked on some of these so I can click erase and erase this and if you use two fingers you can pinch around and move around S note so I can erase that I can go up here choose a new pen style the favorites that we had they don't sink so they're unique to each device but I can go up here and I can choose the pen style I like and then I can do a little bit better handwriting or maybe not from my device depending on how your handwriting is and yeah you can do all that so a few other things I wanted to show you before I save this note I want to show you a cool feature that I missed on one of my latest videos I want to give a shout out to Evan for teaching me how to do this he talked about using the lasso tool to take a formula and convert it into text so is what he is talking about so here I can say 1 plus 2 squared equals whatever and if I go in and I choose the selection tool up here I can then highlight that formula here I can group it together so it becomes one object I can change if it's in the back or forward but here I have the transform into and when I select that I have a few options I can say refine shape so that's kind of like shape match it will try and make a little better I can do the formula match or I can do the text match so it will just convert any word that you wrote into text but here I'm going to choose the formula option so when I do that it's automatically going to go through and it will put that into a formula and I can make it bigger here so it did an alright job I need to be a little more clear in the way that I write so you have that really cool option a few other people have also asked where is the photo note so on the phone if I go in and click insert here I have the gallery option the camera but over here on the side I have others and there is no photo note or there is no handwritten note but you do have voice recordings here you have illustrations so I can go in and choose the same illustrations or similar illustrations that I had on the computer I can also go in and add anything from my clipboard as well as the scrapbook application is there and you can go and download that from the Galaxy books if you want to use the scrapbook application so I am going to come up here and I'm going to click Save and then we are going to go back to the PC and see how that synced over here I am back on the PC we see that my original note is still here so I am going to go back go to more click settings and then click the accounts and click the sync notes and that will force the sync to pull over here on to the PC version and we can go back and then we may just need to wait a little so a few more options that you have here on the main page is when you hover over it will actually pop up what is in that and all the different pages so you kind of have the air view function here on the computer you can also right-click on an album over here at the top you have more and you can export that copy move change the cover add to favorites and lock that document so you will never have problems like I said before this app still does have some sync issues so this note still hasn't updated yet I'm you know maybe it's going to take some time or it just might not ever appear over here but I hope this video is helpful to you and learning how to use the S note application on Windows if you have any further questions please leave a comment below and a few views this before please let us know your experience in the comments section and if this is your first time here I'd love for you to subscribe so that you can be notified of my new and upcoming videos all about your smartphone to your smart home thanks for watching we'll see you on the next onetoday I'm gonna show you how to take your s notes from your Galaxy Note 8 to your Windows PC let's get started hey everybody welcome to tech with Bret where I help tech work for you and to get S note on your Windows PC you just need to head to the Microsoft Store once you are in here you need to search for s note and then you will see that it populates this as one of the application that's available so you just click on it and then you click install and now here I'm just going to open it up and click launch and you'll notice that this is very similar to the Galaxy Note 8 device so the same thing that you've seen over there you will be able to see over here on the windows computer so the first thing that you need to do is go up here to the top and click more and then go down here and click settings and then you want to click on the Samsung account and you want to choose the account you want to sync from so here I've chosen my Samsung Account at the top and then that will start pulling down all of the notes that you have synced through your Samsung Account over on the device and if you want to see how to do that and learn more about s note on the phone make sure you click the pop-up on-screen now we also have the Wi-Fi sync only so this setting is really more for the phones but it's still on here so just make sure that's turned on Wi-Fi sync only so then when you're connected to the Wi-Fi it's going to sync that info down here you have the change default cover so then I can see the cover I want whenever I create a new S note then we also have a bow S note and you can just see the version that you have there so one thing to note the first thing I want to talk about is when you are syncing through s note it is not as seamless as I would like it to be of course when you ever you save a note on your phone it automatically syncs but to sync on the computer each time I have had to go up here into the settings click on my Samsung Account and then right here choose sync notes and then that will allow the new notes to populate over here or send the notes from the PC to the S note on the phone so that's a little finicky but everything else works really great and up here you can cancel the sync and you can remove it so let's go back and show you all the settings that you have on here so starting up here in the top left of the screen we have the different categories so I have all action memos notes favorites and then different categories that I've changed and not categorized and then over here we have the search option and more I showed you that and then down on the bottom right we have the more so I can instantly start a text note I can start a voice recording and/or I can start a shape match so as soon as you click on one of these it opens up a new note and you can instantly begin doing whichever category you have selected and then here you just have the new note creation and you can scroll up and down with your mouse it's really easy as well as this is very touch friendly you have all those options there so I'm just gonna click create a new note over here in the bottom here it's gonna load up just like on the phone you have all your options up here at the top so if you want to zoom in and out you can go over here to the sidebar and double click and then it will show you the full page and if you want to zoom in you can hold down control and then scroll in and that will zoom in again as well and then I can use this on the sidebar to scroll up and down the page or just use the wheel that you have you can also go in with your fingers and you can pinch and zoom in and out so doing a quick tutorial of what options are available here up at the top we have the different handwriting tools so we have all the pens we had on the phone we can go in and change the exact color and style we have other colors over here and the thickness and you can see all those options there the next one is the erase tool so let's say I'm going to write on here real quick and we can use the mouse to do this or we can write if you have a touchscreen and then if you wanted to erase you can click the erase and when you do this it will erase by lines so you can see that it erases that way instead of just one little part at a time if you hold down on here you then have a few more options you have erased by lines you can adjust that you have a race touch area and you can also increase the thickness of the erase line and then down here you have erase all over here you have the text option so it will automatically pull open a text box and you can right in here and then down here at the bottom you have all of the different options so say I want to highlight this I can just do control a I can change the font very easily and then I can go over here and change the font size I have bold all the other options right there so and then I have the insert and image and when you click on this you only get one option it will open up the file browser of your computer and you can go in and find the exact image that you want to add and once you do that you just click open it then imports that image you can move it around you can adjust the size and you can also change the layout here so if I want to bring it to the front or the back I can do that I can also just crop it right here if you want to edit the image again you just right click on it with the mouse and then you have these options I also have cut copy and delete and if I want to do this with my finger on the screen I can just long press on the screen that selects the image I can move it around and adjust it all by hand as well so then over here we have the lasso tool so this is the Select mode so if I want to select some of this so let's say I want to select s note I can wrap around it there it has automatically selected and then I can click properties and do the same thing bring the front line I can adjust the thickness of the lines so there you go if I want it all to be the same thickness I can go in as well as change the color after the fact and then I just click over here to finish that so if you click on the lasso tool you can then lasso it or just choose the rectangle so let's do the rectangle again down here and we have the same options so then over here we have the undo and the redo so then down here in the bottom right we have the picture so if I click that it's automatically going to open up the camera and I have a app that's already using that but it will just open the camera you can take a picture here I can record audio so when I click record audio it will automatically start to read Kord and then I can click stop and then I can just go back in and then I can re listen to that recording and then down here we have add new page so if I want to add another page to this note I can do that I can go back here and let's say we want to zoom in and out we have all those options and if I want to easily see all the pages I just need to click here in the middle on the one and two and then I can see all the pages I have I can favorite this I can share it or edit it so maybe I want to delete one of the pages I click there delete or if I want to share one of the pages so I'm going to click this click export and then I can share it as a image JPEG a PNG or a PDF file and then we can also copy pages and move them around so if I hold down you can move them back and forth so that you can reorder the pages then up here at the top we have the save and we have the more options so I can add a page I can manage pages just like I showed you before you can go into the background settings so I can actually go and change the blank page the line grid to do I can make a diary page all of these options even changing the background of the color right here all on the desktop application so let's go and undo that change it back to blank and hit done then I click more I can record the sketching again not much to do here but when you when you start recording the sketching and you're done you click the record and then you can play it back and that's about all you can do you can't really export it or anything you'd have to use another application to actually record what is happening and then the last one here is you have tag so here you can add the tags you just add one at a time so I can click Add title click the plus and then I could choose another tag and keep adding those in so that you can organize all of your notes then down here in the bottom left we have the favorite pens so just like on the no date you can come in here and select your favorite types of pens style so I can click add and you can put multiple in here so when you're coloring or drawing or whatever you're doing you can easily just click on one of these right with that pen I can go back choose a different one and it's really easy to use those pens and makes it very user friendly then we can go down here and we have the shape match tool so then if I draw a shape it's automatically going to convert that into a more perfect shape so there I have an oval here I can do a square you can do lines and if it can't figure it out it just deletes it so make sure that it's as accurate as possible so a little fun thing that you can do and then over here we have the insert illustration so maybe I want to find a little clipart maybe I want to add a speech bubble here I can do that if I want to flip it around I can just move it around it's pretty flexible and how it works and so we can add a speech bubble there and in the illustrations area you also have the different shapes up here so if you want to find a specific shape you can do that all on this page and that is all the settings of the S note application so here I'm going to click Save we're gonna call this ABCs of s note so it shows up at the top of the list and then here we can click Share so it pulls up this page I go over here and click share and I can share it as an S note file so maybe you want to share this to your phone if you don't want to sync it you can share it as an image or a PDF and you can select all those at once so now that we've saved it I'm gonna go back and I'm going to click the more and we have a few options we again have share edit import PDF import s notes manage categories settings and help so I'm going to go back into the settings I'm gonna go into the Samsung account and I'm going to select sync notes and now I'm gonna show you when you go over to the phone when it sinks so over here we are on the Galaxy Note 8 and if you are not seeing your note sync here you can go up into the settings of S note then you can go to accounts and then you click settings and you can try turning off s note sync and back on and seeing if that will force it it may just take a couple minutes so be a little patient with it but then once it is done you'll see that your note has synced and up here at the top we have abc's of s notes so I'm just going to open that up and I want to make a few changes and then we're gonna sync it back to the computer so here we go to page one and you can see that when I click Edit I now have all the options I did over on the computer I can hold down and I can still move this as an object so maybe I want to move this down here I'm gonna hold down the bubble and move that as well and then I still have the undo options I'm gonna go back over here so I want to get rid of some of these circles that I made I hold down and then I just click delete delete and then maybe I don't like how the handwriting looked on some of these so I can click erase and erase this and if you use two fingers you can pinch around and move around S note so I can erase that I can go up here choose a new pen style the favorites that we had they don't sink so they're unique to each device but I can go up here and I can choose the pen style I like and then I can do a little bit better handwriting or maybe not from my device depending on how your handwriting is and yeah you can do all that so a few other things I wanted to show you before I save this note I want to show you a cool feature that I missed on one of my latest videos I want to give a shout out to Evan for teaching me how to do this he talked about using the lasso tool to take a formula and convert it into text so is what he is talking about so here I can say 1 plus 2 squared equals whatever and if I go in and I choose the selection tool up here I can then highlight that formula here I can group it together so it becomes one object I can change if it's in the back or forward but here I have the transform into and when I select that I have a few options I can say refine shape so that's kind of like shape match it will try and make a little better I can do the formula match or I can do the text match so it will just convert any word that you wrote into text but here I'm going to choose the formula option so when I do that it's automatically going to go through and it will put that into a formula and I can make it bigger here so it did an alright job I need to be a little more clear in the way that I write so you have that really cool option a few other people have also asked where is the photo note so on the phone if I go in and click insert here I have the gallery option the camera but over here on the side I have others and there is no photo note or there is no handwritten note but you do have voice recordings here you have illustrations so I can go in and choose the same illustrations or similar illustrations that I had on the computer I can also go in and add anything from my clipboard as well as the scrapbook application is there and you can go and download that from the Galaxy books if you want to use the scrapbook application so I am going to come up here and I'm going to click Save and then we are going to go back to the PC and see how that synced over here I am back on the PC we see that my original note is still here so I am going to go back go to more click settings and then click the accounts and click the sync notes and that will force the sync to pull over here on to the PC version and we can go back and then we may just need to wait a little so a few more options that you have here on the main page is when you hover over it will actually pop up what is in that and all the different pages so you kind of have the air view function here on the computer you can also right-click on an album over here at the top you have more and you can export that copy move change the cover add to favorites and lock that document so you will never have problems like I said before this app still does have some sync issues so this note still hasn't updated yet I'm you know maybe it's going to take some time or it just might not ever appear over here but I hope this video is helpful to you and learning how to use the S note application on Windows if you have any further questions please leave a comment below and a few views this before please let us know your experience in the comments section and if this is your first time here I'd love for you to subscribe so that you can be notified of my new and upcoming videos all about your smartphone to your smart home thanks for watching we'll see you on the next one\n"