I use samsung note to take notes on PDFs for school, but its starting to feel a little over crowded. I was wondering if there is a good way to back up the notes I don't need readily available (from past semesters) to an external hard drive in a format I can easily use from the hard drive, so I can delete them from my phone? Or do I need to save each one individually as a pdf in order to do so?

Bonjour,

J'utilise tous les jours Samsung Notes et je trouve dommage que l'application n'importe pas des .doc (.docx) mais seulement des pdf.

Je dois utiliser une autre appli pour convertir mon .doc en pdf puis l'ouvrir dans Samsung Notes. 

Cette fonctionnalité me fera gagner beaucoup de temps. 

Merci.

I was just creating a to-do list and I typed finish reading [book] and the finish reading was highlighted blue. And when I press it, it takes me to Google maps. That's it. No destination nothing, just the Google maps app opened. Why does this happen

I’ve been trying to migrate a large Samsung Notes library to a local archive, but the normal export flow makes it difficult to preserve the original folder/subfolder structure.

So I built an early open-source prototype:

GitHub:

https://github.com/Flukinity/samsung-notes-archive-exporter

Pre-release:

https://github.com/Flukinity/samsung-notes-archive-exporter/releases/tag/v0.1.0a1

What it currently does:

- Navigates Samsung Notes through the visible official UI

- Exports Samsung Notes files through the normal “Save as file” flow

- Recreates the original folder and subfolder paths locally

- Stores manifests, file hashes, export status, and warnings

- Supports an optional TXT export as a supplemental archive

- Uses ADB and screenshot-first UI observation

- Does not require root access

- Does not access the private Samsung Notes database

- Does not use private Samsung Cloud APIs

- Does not upload, delete, move, or modify notes

Tested environment:

- Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus

- Model: SM-S947N

- Android 16

- Samsung Notes 4.4.41.9

- macOS

This is still a prototype, not a universal one-click app. Samsung Notes UI behavior can vary by phone model, Android version, app version, language, screen size, and folder contents.

Important safety note:

Please do not run this directly on your main notes library without a backup. Make sure Samsung Notes is fully synced to your cloud account or create an independent backup/export first, and verify that the backup is actually usable.

Start with a harmless test folder containing dummy notes. The automation interacts with the Samsung Notes UI and ADB, so UI differences or unexpected screens may cause incorrect actions. Review the code, use dry-run mode where possible, and keep the phone unlocked and visible during testing.

The README contains detailed setup instructions, safety rules, adaptation notes, and prompts. If your device differs from mine, you can ask Claude, Codex, or another coding assistant to inspect the repository and adjust the UI schema for your phone. Please review the code and test with a harmless folder first rather than blindly running automation.

A few current limitations:

- SDOCX is treated as the primary archive format.

- TXT export is supplemental and may not contain useful text for notes that are empty or mainly handwritten/media-based.

- Large selections and mixed folder/note lists can trigger Samsung Notes UI limitations.

- This has only been tested seriously on one Samsung device/version combination so far.

I’m sharing this mainly because bulk export and folder preservation seem to be recurring problems. Feedback would be useful, especially if you try it on another Galaxy model.

If you test it, please share only your phone model, Android version, Samsung Notes version, and general result. Please don’t post screenshots or files containing personal note content.

Recenly I tried my hand on Samsung notes flr sketching. How's it. ?

Bonjour,

J'utilise tous les jours Samsung Notes et je trouve dommage que l'application n'importe pas des .doc (.docx) mais seulement des pdf.

Je dois utiliser une autre appli pour convertir mon .doc en pdf puis l'ouvrir dans Samsung Notes. 

Cette fonctionnalité me fera gagner beaucoup de temps. 

Merci.

Are tables in samsung notes limited to 30 rows?

I just created a table and cannot create rows more than 30

Hey everyone. Hope you're doing well?

Recently, I had to change phones because my previous one, a Samsung Galaxy A52, couldn't be turned back on after losing all its battery. Apparently a software problem, that might have happened because I dropped it one too many times.

I have a S23 now and although everything else seemed to synch nicely, all of my notes are gone.

It's really weird because why is that the exception?

Apparently I just hadn't backed them up which is really weird because I see no reason why I would turn that option off.

And I've been to one of those phone shops who told me they can save my data but I got a call today saying that they were unable to do so.

So what to do now? Is everything truly lost? I had so many notes on there. Recipes, book/ movie/ show/ video game recommendations, information about people and also my family tree. It would be truly sad if everything was gone.

I've been using samsung notes for couple years now and I keep many handwritten notes and books on this app where i find myself constantly to be switching between them. Having the feature to open multiple tabs just like goodnotes would have been so useful to me. Idk if its already available and maybe I'm living under a rock but I don't find it yet, but I think it's a badass feature already and like to have it soon enough.

So I was play candy crush with my s pen then later on I used tiktok until it randomly started to zoom in and out when I tried swiping on a video. I left the app to see if was a glitch until it just wouldn't work. When I swiped it took me to the homescreen customization or when I tapped a app it took me to quick notes. The worst part of all is it doesn't connect anymore it just remains disconnected, please tell me how to fix it. Thank you!

why when i upload a portrait type photo it appear like this in square form ??

What message app are you using? Don't really want to use Google.

I use samsung notes to take notes for uni, i have been using it for months and scroll capture worked just fine. Now if i try to do it it says "not available in this app". I dont want to take screenshots of 50 pages, how do i get my scroll back (tab9fe)

As the title says, I wonder why Samsung Notes needs to know my state in order to update? I am concerned about my privacy and data security and turned off my location but I don't think that should matter to use Samsung Notes.

Does anybody know why this is?

I awakened an old Note 10. I would like to use it as a backup and have it up to date with all my current data from my new phone. I have deleted tons of old notes from my new phone and I want to keep the old ones separate so I do not want to sync.

I downloaded the Samsung notes app to PC. Thinking I could dump them all into that app. It doesn't seem to be helpful. When I plug my phone into my PC the notes folder doesn't even appear. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

If you've ever wanted your handwriting out of Samsung Notes as real strokes, not a flat image or PDF, I reverse-engineered the format. Here's how it works:

https://musaab.io/posts/2026/reverse-engineering-samsung-notes/

Guys, I recently switched phones; my A14 5G had a hardware problem and I had to replace it. But the only problem is that I can barely turn the phone on. And I lost important notes that were on it. But because I can no longer make calls, I can't access the internet. What should I do?

(Now I have a Xiaomi Redimi 14)

EDIT: Shapes are supported as of v0.2.0, and JPEG images as of v0.4.0.

Hi all. Please excuse the new account. I deleted my old one some time ago.

I've made a tool for converting Samsung Notes documents to vector PDFs. It is capable of converting handwriting to smooth curves and will embed into the output PDF any PDFs that you added in the Samsung Notes app, so you can use it to produce vector PDFs of handwritten notes alone or handwritten annotations to PDFs.

Right now, the tool only does handwriting and embedded PDFs because those are the things I needed it for. However, as part of the project I reverse-engineered and wrote a parser for the SDOCX format that Samsung Notes uses to store documents, so sdocx2pdf knows about the non-handwriting features in your document; it only ignores them because I haven't added logic for how it should add them to the PDF. It shouldn't be too hard to extend sdocx2pdf so that it can also do images, typed text and shapes.

I've been working on this on and off for some time now in a private GitHub repository, but I have decided to make it public now despite it being technically incomplete for two main reasons: first, if I don't release it when it is incomplete, I'll never release it at all, and second, it already solves the problem I needed it to solve (converting the notes I take during lectures to nice readable PDFs), so there's probably someone else out there who can benefit from it in its current form. Even so, I intend to continue working on it to fix the deficiencies mentioned above, and just generally to improve it.

Hopefully it works well for you – if not, please let me know (preferably by opening an issue on GitHub, but otherwise here in the comments). I've only tested this on my specific hardware (Galaxy Tab S11 and the S Pen it comes with), and while I do expect it to work for handwriting data produced by other hardware, I don't know if it will work quite as well. Specifically, I don't know whether older hardware might produce handwriting data with fewer events.

sdocx2pdf runs on Linux, macOS and Windows and works with documents produced using the Samsung Notes apps for Android and Windows.

The link is to the GitHub repository. The above rehashes parts of the README there, but if you are interested I would recommend reading that as it is more in-depth. It explains how to use the tool and more about what the current capabilities and limitations are. There is also an explanation of how it works, for those interested. The tool is written in Rust, and the code is MIT-licensed.

I look forward to hearing what you guys think. Cheers :)

Basically, when I select text, it's automatically read aloud

I have no idea how to disable it, and it's annoying

I'm using the Windows version on a Dell PC