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How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:46:04 GMT

I have cumulated maybe 100 Samsung Notes in my Galaxy device. As backup, I use Smart Switch to copy the phone data to my laptop. I like to keep my Notes separately in my laptop.

I connected the phone to my laptop using a USB-C cable. I see a folder “P’s Z Flip5” and “Internal Storage”. When I clicked on the Internal Storage, it showed a bunch of folders but I did not see any folder name related to Samsung Notes. I clicked on the Documents folder and it was empty.

Where are Samsung Notes stored? Ideally, I like to copy all my Notes into my laptop individually.

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

GaryB82 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:58:05 GMT

Samsung Notes are stored on the cloud to view them on your PC. You would need to download Samsung Notes and the Samsung Account app from the Microsoft store.

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

realaud — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:13:00 GMT

Aren't those apps only compatible with Samsung computers?

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Samsung_Moderator — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:28:54 GMT

Hello Mis3, Thanks for reaching out. We understand wanting to copy the notes to the computer from Samsung Notes.

There was a recent update that made Samsung Notes compatible with all computers running Windows 10 or 11. Here is a link for using Samsung Notes on the PC: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10001469/

Re: Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

GaryB82 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:35:31 GMT

Nope if you download the Account app also they will work

Re: Re: Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

realaud — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:54:58 GMT

What do I know? I deliberately avoid using proprietary Samsung apps.

Re: Re: Re: Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

justafacelessguyinaO — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:44:33 GMT

I agree, same with Google's Tasks..

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:57:46 GMT

I just installed Samsung Notes to my PC.
How do I “get” my notes from my Flip-5 to my PC?

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Samsung_Moderator — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:12:09 GMT

Try these steps to sync the Notes from the phone to the PC

open Samsung Notes on your PC, and then select Settings.
Select Sync with Samsung Cloud, input your Samsung account information, and then sign in. Make sure the switch above Sync now is turned on.
Next, you'll need to make sure your phone or tablet is set to sync as well. From your device, open Samsung Notes, and then tap Menu (the three horizontal lines).
Tap the Settings icon, and then tap the switch next to Sync with Samsung Cloud. You may be prompted to sign into your Samsung account.
Once your account has been added, you can access all of your notes on each device for convenient editing, sharing, and organizing.

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:43:21 GMT

I launched Samsung Notes on my PC and clicked Setting. I see in the top:

Sync with Samsung Cloud

I clicked this and nothing happened. How do I sign in my Samsung account form my PC?

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Samsung_Moderator — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:51:41 GMT

If it doesn't allow you to sign in to your account, we recommend contacting customer support for assistance.

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:40:26 GMT

Working now. I read all the suggestions again and Garyb82 suggested I installed Samsung Notes and Samsung Account. I did not know that Samsung Account was an app! So, I installed Samsung Account and now I can sign in. I then clicked “Sync now” and after a few minutes, I now see all my notes in my PC.

I am not familiar how this “sync” works.
1. When I edit one of the notes in my handset, does the change go to Samsung Cloud automatically?
2. And does the change go to my PC as well?
3. What if I edit a note in my PC, would this change sync back to my handset?
4. When I open a note in my PC, the font is extremely large, like size 16. Is there any way I can change them all at once to a reasonable font size?

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

realaud — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:46:17 GMT

When you have your notes synced, since the data is all kept in the cloud and not on your device(s), any change you make on one device will carry over to the other device when you open the note. As I understand it, there is no facility to make a default font size in the Notes app. If the type appears to large for you, you may be able to utilize the screen zoom out function. You think 16 point font is large?

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:55:01 GMT

Yes, font 16 is way too large.

As you said, data of my Samsung Notes are now in Samsung Cloud, not in my Flip-5. However, when I put my handset to airplane mode, I can still access my notes. Why?

I just ordered my Flip-7 and plan to use Smart Switch to transfer the data. Do I have to do something special to Samsung Notes?

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

realaud — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:21:04 GMT

You will still be able to access your notes and create new notes offline, however, they will not sync until you are back online, so you may not see changes in one instance if one device was offline at the time the last change took place. You will only see the last change that was synced before going offline. If someone was to open notes on the other device while you were making offline changes, they would not see the changes you made, not would you see any they made until the notes sync up again.

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:49:39 GMT

I will be getting a Flip-7 in 2 weeks. I will just use Smart Switch to copy the data as usual, right? Data in WhatsApp will have to be handled separately.

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

realaud — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:58:17 GMT

You can do a complete Smart Switch transfer, or you can do a selective transfer of the apps/settings/data you want. Why would WhatsApp have to be handled separately? Even when doing a complete transfer, some apps will not transfer over due to DRM and will have to be redownloaded.

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:34:36 GMT

As I recall, Smart Switch does not copy WhatsApp data. I have to get the chat history from WhatsApp backup, right?

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:41:53 GMT

Since data of Samsung Notes does not reside in the handset, I guess Smart Switch would copy the settings and the new handset would download the notes from Samsung Cloud.

Re: How to copy Samsung Notes to Laptop

Mis3 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:37:15 GMT

There are a few very important notes which I like to keep a copy in my PC. What I did was select the whole document and pasted it in Word.
Is there a better way?