Key Facts

• Parth Shah used OneNote and Samsung Notes for the same tasks throughout the month, including creating article outlines, writing meeting notes, planning personal projects, importing PDFs, adding screenshots, and testing handwritten notes.
• Samsung Notes immediately felt faster and cleaner in daily use, with a polished interface, easy-to-understand menus, and a responsive editor that remained smooth even when adding images, checklists, voice recordings, or handwritten sections.
• OneNote's notebook, section, page, and subpage structure made it easier for Shah to separate article research, personal projects, meeting notes, and reference material without creating a cluttered list, and its password-protection feature for entire sections was more convenient for large collections.
• Samsung Notes provided a more natural editing experience for working with PDFs, allowing Shah to import documents directly, highlight important lines, add handwritten comments, insert text, and mark up specific sections without switching to a separate PDF editor.
• OneNote's cross-platform availability, allowing access to notebooks on Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac, and the web, was a decisive factor in Shah's preference for the app, despite Samsung Notes' advantages in terms of speed, PDF handling, and handwriting experience.