Microsoft has elevated its Garage venture Journal, a notetaking app designed for styluses and pens, right into a full-fledged product now referred to as Microsoft Journal, the corporate introduced Tuesday.

The app provides “a delightful freeform personal notetaking experience that lets you take notes and reason through ink,” Microsoft’s Renee Malone stated in a blog post. The app allows you to write and draw like many different notetaking apps, but it surely additionally helps gestures like scratching out phrases to erase them and circling phrases or phrases to pick out them. You can use the app to mark up PDFs, which is a well-liked factor to do, in keeping with Malone; a pie chart in her submit says that 59 % of all web page varieties in Journal have been PDFs.

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Garage is Microsoft’s model for its extra experimental merchandise. As a completely supported product, the corporate “has plans to address the most common requests and a backlog of new features,” Oz Solomon, principal engineering supervisor of the Journal group, stated within the weblog submit.

If you wish to get an thought of what you possibly can anticipate from Microsoft Journal, try this video from when the app was first introduced in February of 2021. If you wish to attempt the app your self, you possibly can obtain it without spending a dime from the Microsoft Store. It’s appropriate with each Windows 10 and Windows 11 units.