Apply Custom Writing Styles Using the Notes App

The Notes app supports a range of brush styles and easy-to-use auxiliary tools, which allow you to apply custom writing styles.

Open Notes to enter the note editing screen. From there, feel free to:

• Set and favorite brushes: Touch to use a brush, touch it again to enter the brush settings screen, set your desired brush, and touch . Enable Show favorites bar, and a brush favorites bar will display on the left of the screen. Touch a brush in the favorites bar to switch to it. To delete a brush from favorites, press and hold the brush in the favorites bar, and touch .

• Use Color Capture: This feature allows you to pick colors from other apps when doodling on the screen or editing notes. In split-screen or floating window mode, touch twice to go to the brush settings screen, and touch to pick your desired color from the target app, for example, picking a color from an image in Gallery or Browser.

• Use highlighter and marker: Touch to use Marker. Touch again to enter the settings screen. Touch to switch to Highlighter. The highlighter effects will not obstruct your handwriting. When Highlighter is enabled, turn on the Straight lines switch to draw a straight line.

• Use eraser: Touch to manually erase graffiti or handwriting. Touch again to enter the eraser settings screen. Drag the slider below to adjust the eraser size, and turn on the Erase strokes switch to erase a stroke you made at an earlier point. Touch Clear strokes to clear all handwritten content. To restore the content, touch the .

  

  Make sure that Erase strokes is disabled before you drag the slider to adjust the eraser size.

• Use pressure-sensitive eraser: After connecting to your stylus, touch twice to enter the eraser settings screen, turn on the Pressure sensitive switch, and adjust Sensitivity. While drawing graffiti or writing with the stylus, hold down on the screen and pause to activate the eraser. Once you're done erasing, lift the stylus to continue writing.

• Enter text: Touch and enter text in the displayed text box. You can touch and hold down on the text to perform operations such as Copy and Add to outline.
• Use Instant Shape: This feature allows you to draw a perfect shape by hand, using a single stroke, to mark key points. Touch , and draw your desired shape (such as an arrow, circle, rectangle, or heart), in a single stroke. Once you've finished drawing the shape, lift the stylus to have the hand-drawn shape replaced with a standardized shape. Touch to further adjust the shape.

  

  Secondary adjustments are not supported for certain shapes. Actual usage shall prevail.

• Magnify: Touch to zoom in on the editing screen. Drag the triangle icon in the lower right corner of the display box to adjust the level of magnification, or move the display box to select the magnification range.

• Use laser pointer: Touch to use the laser pointer to add temporary annotations. The handwriting will not block the text and will disappear after a few seconds.

• Enable mistouch prevention: Touch to avoid accidentally editing notes when you're sketching or drawing a shape.

• Change the template: Touch and follow the onscreen instructions to change the cover and paper templates.

The feature availability varies by device.