Can you elaborate on your note taking strategy with the phone for work? What is your normal process? (example: take notes, save as pdf, then dropbox, then?) how do you handle taking notes on the "small" screen (I mean small compared to a full size tablet)
I'm planning on picking up the note 3 for so many reasons already listed her, but I'm more and more interested by the note taking that I had dismissed before as something to difficult to do for lots of full page notes like a class or business meeting might generate.
Thanks.
Well, for every day note taking, I actually prefer using my Note 8. And it used to be much easier to switch between the Note 8 and the Note 2 because S-Note Sync'd up flawlessly between the 2. Since Samsung updated S-Note on the Note 3, it's a little more difficult, but still possible to sync the notes accordingly via Evernote and S-Note conversion.
That said, I'd love to elaborate on using the S-Pen on the Note 3. Many of the documents I deal with are in PDF form. When I receive an important PDF through my work email (which is loaded up on my phone), I'll save the PDF and then import it into S-Note. From there, I'll add additional notes and or comments and automatically forward/share the pdf with the internal person that needs to see my notes, in order for them to move forward. Rather than having to type out the notes on the email itself, it makes things much easier for them to see my short notes on the PDF.
Granted, my notes are much shorter when using the Note 3, due to (as you mentioned) the smaller writing area...but, the great thing is being able to still import the note into my Note 8 (since there's a way to convert) and take further notes later on, for my own purposes. Since I had already gotten used to doing this between my Note 8 and Note 2, it wasn't a hard transition for me at all, using the Note 3 (just a few more steps, due to Samsung's change in the software for S-Note).
I've done the same with Excel (creating a Screen shot and then writing notes directly on the portion of an excel spreadsheet that might need fixing) or a word doc, where there might be a typo. I could go on and on.
Quite honestly, it's initially a VERY intimidating process because of all the functional software using the S-pen, but if you take your time to learn as many of the useful functions (for your own work needs) from the beginning, actually using them will start to be come a day-in/day-out function that is hard to live without.
In the week leading up to the Note 3 release, I was using a backup Android phone that I own and it was extremely difficult for me to adjust to not using a Note device, while out and about.
Now, just some little tidbits for the lack of writing surface on the Note 3: 1) I highly suggest, when writing a longer set of notes, to write in landscape mode and actually zoom in on the area (using the hover function to scroll to the right, while writing). That'll make for your ability to fit more words on a single line, than if writing while zoomed out (especially with the handwriting improvements made by Samsung)., 2) Writing brief notes are fantastic on Action Memo, but there are still some functions that Samsung took away (ability to create a Calendar event) that I'm hoping they bring back. Linking to a task, using Action memo is a pain in the butt because you have to write the task all on 1 line. The action memo popup is way too small and you can't zoom in or out, to fit more info on one line.
