Sounds like the new S-Note has addressed some of your concerns.  Strokes are vectors, and you can resize&#x2F; move individual strokes.  You can zoom in &amp; out of the page too.<p>You can change the notes background, including to backgrounds saved in your own image library.  So you could create your own forms to fill in, but there&#x27;s no guidance on how to design those background images.  They&#x27;re now a mix of Paper (background color&#x2F;texture) and Pattern (eg repeating lines for writing on, or grids &#x2F; dots for graph papers).<p>S-Note files are also in Android&#x27;s file explorer, but I don&#x27;t know of any program that can open them.  You can export to PDF.  Text searching is via Evernote, and I&#x27;m not sure its handwriting recognition is reliable with S-Note.  Page management is still a pain.  There&#x27;s an option to convert your lasso into a square now &amp; save it to your Scrapbook, but it isn&#x27;t as easy as a crop tool.<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a way to update S-Note, unless Samsung updates the whole tablet (ie to Android 5).  Frustrating!  The new S-Note would make your Note 8 much more powerful if there&#x27;s a way to hack it onto there.