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the samsung galaxy note5 has a few new features in its s-pen that is the smart stylus that clicks into the bottom of the phone I'm going to show you few of my favorites the first one is called off-screen memo it means that when your screen is turned off you can still pull out the stylus and write yourself a note you do not have to turn on the phone to do so so when you save the memo and you open up s note your memo will be waiting for you feature number two is the redesigned air command wheel that's what this thing is called and this basically gives you all of the controls for your s-pen so you click that open and you've already got tools for action memo that's like a little sticky note smart select that's kind of like cropping and screen writing so that's taking a screenshot and writing all over it but you can add three of your very own shortcuts you can choose what they are so I'm going to go for Chrome and Facebook and the gallery app so the next time you open it up you've got your three customized favorites and the other three my third tip has everything to do with the S note app itself I'm going to show you how to download an extension pack that is going to give you a lot more tools to make s note more powerful to work with you go into the more menu and you select more features and here you're able to download an extension pack some charts a different way to sketch out your ideas and a widget so for the extension pack for example you just go ahead and you install that after it downloads and installs you're gonna see this little orange button here that gives you a lot more ways to create notes including a photo note adding voice recordings text and an action and then within an actual note itself down at the very bottom of the screen you're gonna see something called shape recognition mode which means that you can draw in a circle a triangle a square and the Apple transform your chicken scratches into actual recognizable shapes which is very useful for diagramming you've also got magnified mode down here in the bottom which lets you zoom in on an area and helps you get really precise when you're drawing something very fine the note 5 is definitely one of the most powerful phones you can buy for even more tips check out CNN com