I also bought but never much used the Nokia Lumia 1020 (better camera but lousy OS).I loved my Note 3 and used it all the time for camera, web searches, MANY audio books, some note-taking and so on

I enjoyed the Note 5

I did the Samsung authentication, my Note 8 checkes out good'

I can recommend the use of one note, as the curved screen makes the effective note taking area much smaller and thus difficult on the default app since there is no zoom functionality