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Sounds like the new S-Note has addressed some of your concerns. Strokes are vectors, and you can resize/ move individual strokes. You can zoom in & out of the

Sounds like the new S-Note has addressed some of your concerns. Strokes are vectors, and you can resize/ move individual strokes. You can zoom in & out of the page too. You can change the notes background, including to backgrounds saved in your own image library. So you could create your own forms to fill in, but there's no guidance on how to design those background images. They're now a mix of Paper (background color/texture) and Pattern (eg repeating lines for writing on, or grids / dots for graph papers). S-Note files are also in Android's file explorer, but I don't know of any program that can open them. You can export to PDF. Text searching is via Evernote, and I'm not sure its handwriting recognition is reliable with S-Note. Page management is still a pain. There's an option to convert your lasso into a square now & save it to your Scrapbook, but it isn't as easy as a crop tool. I don't think there's a way to update S-Note, unless Samsung updates the whole tablet (ie to Android 5). Frustrating! The new S-Note would make your Note 8 much more powerful if there's a way to hack it onto there.

ant6n 11y ago
Thanks for the useful hints, I'll try to check it out. Maybe I'll just upgrade the device itself; the form factor seems more useful (although software upgrades will always be an issue...) Actually I couldn't find the new galaxy tab in 8" with the pen, only the 10" is available with pen on Amazon. Is the text searching possible among multiple notes (e.g. a folder, or multiple folders?)
- ant6n 11y ago
  Actually it was possible to install the new S-Note via the Galaxy App store (Samsung's eco-system layer on top of Android.. ugh). The new S-Note is indeed better, I appreciate the copy/paste/resize features. Gotta make a graph paper template (cumbersome). So thanks for the hint! It's still not as good as the more than ten-year-old journal. One can zoom to only 200%. And the drawing is pretty laggy (if you draw slowly at max zoom, it updates like 2 times per second). Laggy drawing makes good penmanship very hard, and drawing accurately painful and slow. It's also odd that the app overrides the screen brightness to full, and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it from doing so.

ant6n 11y ago

Thanks for the useful hints, I'll try to check it out. Maybe I'll just upgrade the device itself; the form factor seems more useful (although software upgrades will always be an issue...) Actually I couldn't find the new galaxy tab in 8" with the pen, only the 10" is available with pen on Amazon. Is the text searching possible among multiple notes (e.g. a folder, or multiple folders?)

ant6n 11y ago
Actually it was possible to install the new S-Note via the Galaxy App store (Samsung's eco-system layer on top of Android.. ugh). The new S-Note is indeed better, I appreciate the copy/paste/resize features. Gotta make a graph paper template (cumbersome). So thanks for the hint! It's still not as good as the more than ten-year-old journal. One can zoom to only 200%. And the drawing is pretty laggy (if you draw slowly at max zoom, it updates like 2 times per second). Laggy drawing makes good penmanship very hard, and drawing accurately painful and slow. It's also odd that the app overrides the screen brightness to full, and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it from doing so.