Samsung Notes and Notion?
In Samsung’s Unpacked event today, they spent a surprising amount of time talking about Samsung Notes, their digital notetaking software. Now if you’ve followed any of my content, you’ll know I’m a fan of digital notetaking especially when it uses digital ink. That said though recently there has been a dilemma for me.
I’ve been using Notion increasingly to manage several different projects and relationships as of late. One feature Notion sorely lacks is any native support of digital ink. I’ve been struggling to find a way to connect my use of handwritten digital notes and Notion without creating an exceptional amount of additional work. Well, I may have found a way.
When taking digital notes in Samsung Notes on my phone or tablet, I can use the Share function coupled Notion to get my handwritten notes into Notion.
From within Samsung Notes tap the More button (three vertical dots) and select the Share icon
Select Image File from the list of options
Select Notion from the list of destinations
Add a title for the note, the page or database where you want to keep the note, and the workspace where that page or database resides
Tap the Share arrow and Notion will do the rest
You can do something similar on Windows by using the Snipping tool, but I find the Android method the best. If you have multiple pages in your note, each one is added as an image object to the Notion page and can be resized and moved around to various positions as needed.
This does not make the handwriting searchable. If you want searchable handwriting, you may need to use OneNote as your destination instead. Another option is to use the handwriting to text conversion option in Samsung Notes and paste the converted text into your note. No matter how you move the content over, it means in the end you have one less place to manage your notes.
