Last fall, I got the Samsung Galaxy Note 8S, over the iPad mini, in part because (I liked the margins around the screen better, and) it had a stylus! Having had an older Samsung Replenish phone that had a small touchscreen and small physical keyboard, I wanted to retain some functionality/manipulability in a tablet that I felt was lost with an all-touch-screen design. Since I have had the tablet, I’ve mostly used it for Facebook and browsing/reading stuff on the web, and playing games, with a little bit of doodling with the S Pen stylus and use of other apps.
For this second Thing, I decided to try to watch a video of tips for using my tablet, to get an overview of all of the fancy things I could do, hopefully more than I was doing. I Googled “samsung galaxy note 8 s tips & tricks” and found a YouTube video titled “Samsung Galaxy Note 8 0 S Pen Tips and Tricks Galaxy Note 8 Premium Suite Features” by the user ReviewCenters. It’s just a second under 7 minutes long, and was posted 10 months ago, and is linked here: http://youtu.be/YJuzJ1fcufw
I saw a few things in it that I had figured out on my own, like Air View (hovering over the screen with the S Pen to get info or preview images/videos), and Easy Clip (holding down the little button on the stylus and drawing a shape on the screen will copy to the clipboard in the shape that you drew, I wish I could do a square selection, too).
What I didn’t know or hadn’t figured out was “Enhanced Handwriting” use in email, where you can handwrite a note in an email. Also, holding the button on the pen, in any app you can draw a big arrow/inverted V-shape (^) to open up settings. And, with photos stored on your device, you can select Photo Note and write notes on the “back” of images! Just like my grandma. You can also create your own quick command shortcut gestures with the pen, which seems to have all sorts of fancy applicabilities.
I still underutilize this device, but this video has shown me just some of the neat capabilities it has, and what more I can try out in my personal life. Professionally, I think this video highlights a lot of useful tips that people with this device could use, obviously, and also gets me thinking about how I could use something like this at work: to make corrections/comments on student work, to maybe make a folder of student portraits and start keeping notes on who they are and what they like on the back (since as a school librarian I’ll be seeing so many students for so little time!), and more.
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