Whereas Google Maintain is extraordinarily in style, because it comes pre-installed on most Android telephones, Samsung Notes is far more feature-rich. Over the previous couple of years, Google is attempting to convey extra options to Google Maintain so that the majority Android customers have a free note-taking app that may fulfill most of their wants. Now, Google Maintain appears to be borrowing an essential characteristic from Samsung Notes: Handwritten Notes.
Google Retains will get Handwritten Notes characteristic
The newest model of Google Maintain for Android hides a couple of indicators that supply a have a look at Google’s subsequent step with its note-taking app. AndroidAuthority dug via the app’s code and located that Google is attempting so as to add extra options to the stylus. It has references to “use handwriting, photographs, and textual content to sketch, doodle, brainstorm, and seize all of your concepts.”
It is going to reportedly have a characteristic that permits you to click on the stylus to create a brand new word from anyplace on an Android gadget via a floating word. You possibly can additionally gather info with the screenshot device (no less than on Pixel units).
Furthermore, as we reported earlier, with Android 15, Google Maintain will have the ability to turn out to be your cellphone’s default note-taking app, and you can begin making notes even from the lock display. By default, each time you create a word from the lock display, it can save a brand new word. That is much like what you are able to do proper now with Samsung Notes on Galaxy telephones and tablets.
This Handwritten Notes characteristic is totally totally different from notes the place you possibly can draw. It seems like while you add a drawing to a textual content word, you’ll nonetheless get the outdated UI for drawing. The brand new UI could have a device bar on the backside the place you possibly can choose from a number of kinds of pens (with colours and line width choices), highlighter, backgrounds (strains and squares), and background colours.
You can too add photographs or seize a photograph from the digicam and add it to the word. You can too add a textual content field in a handwritten word. Additionally, you will have the ability to export handwritten notes to PDF information. The upcoming ‘Textual content to Sketch’ characteristic might be much like Samsung’s Sketch to Picture characteristic, which makes use of Generative AI to transform tough drawings into better-looking photographs.
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It is possible for you to to see handwritten notes on the net model of Google Maintain, however you possibly can’t add something new to it or create handwritten notes from the net. Whereas these characteristic additions appear spectacular, they’re nothing in comparison with Samsung Notes’ options.
