Microsoft has elevated its Garage Journal project, a note-taking app designed for pens and ballpoint pens, into a full product now called Microsoft Journal, the company announced Tuesday.
The app offers “a delightful freeform personal note-taking experience that lets you take notes and reason in ink,” said Microsoft’s Renee Malone. in a blog post. The app lets you write and draw like many other note-taking apps, but it also supports gestures like crossing out words to delete them and circling words or phrases to select them. You can use the app to markup PDF files, which is very popular, according to Malone; a pie chart in his post says that 59% of all page types in the Journal were PDFs.
Garage is Microsoft’s brand name for its more experimental products. As a fully supported product, the company “aims to address the most common requests and a backlog of new features,” Oz Solomon, senior engineering manager on the Journal team, said in the blog post.
For an idea of what to expect from Microsoft Journal, check out this is video since the app was first announced in february 2021. If you want to try the app yourself, you can download it for free. from the Microsoft Store. It is compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices.
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