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Garage project Journal becomes Microsoft Journal

Renee Malone — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:40:20 +0000

Big news for enthusiasts of digital ink—Journal, a Garage project, is now Microsoft Journal. Microsoft Journal, an app for Windows, offers a delightful freeform personal notetaking experience that lets you take notes and reason through ink. Thank you for using Journal as a Garage project. Your input has shaped it into what Microsoft Journal is today. What makes Journal special?....

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A new way to author and share Excel named formulas: advanced formula environment, a Microsoft Garage project

Renee Malone — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:00:12 +0000

Advanced formula environment, a Microsoft Garage project, enables Excel users to write complex formulas efficiently and then share them in an Office Add-In for Excel. With the recent addition of the LAMBDA function to Excel, it is now possible to author your own custom functions using the same formula language that powers millions of spreadsheets today. Excel LAMBDA significantly expands....

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Garage project Journal celebrates its anniversary with folders to keep you organized

Renee Malone — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:00:04 +0000

Journal, released as a Microsoft Garage project one year ago, continues to delight today. It is designed—from the ground up—for personal journaling and notetaking with a digital pen. The Journal app is powered by AI to help you write, search, and annotate your ideas quickly and naturally. “We think of Journal and our other incubations as platforms to explore and....

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Journal, a Garage project, adds tactile signal support for a more natural and intuitive writing experience

Renee Malone — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:00:21 +0000

Ink feels more natural and gestures feel more intuitive with support for tactile signal capable pens and devices. Now, you can experience tactile signals on devices like the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop Studio with our Surface Slim Pen 2, when you download the latest version of Journal from the Microsoft Store. Experience these tactile signals in two ways—ink-feel....

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Garage project Journal makes your ink more powerful with improved lasso, multi-select, support for different languages, and more

Renee Malone — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:00:09 +0000

Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, is an ink and touch-first note-taking experience that uses AI to help you stay in the flow of your writing. You can use scratch out to quickly erase something, tap ink to quickly select a word or sentence, and use search to filter to things you’ve written like an item you starred or doodle you....

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A new digital assistant for your browser with Stay Current, a Microsoft Garage project

Meixia Huang — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:06:36 +0000

We view the browser as a “window to the world”. As we browse online, we have access to all kinds of resources and information. There are some tasks we do every day that are monotonous and can very much be automated. With Stay Current, our mission is to transfer the power to automate to the people with relatively little effort—users....

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Custom page styles and improved print and export features now available in Garage project Journal

Lainie Huston — Wed, 19 May 2021 14:43:54 +0000

Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, is live with a new update! The project team is excited to deliver one of their most popular feature requests: Page Styles. Journal is an inking incubation exploring how new paradigms and the power of AI can transform the way we ink, and it’s available for download for any pen-capable Windows 10 device. Existing users....

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Print, custom ink colors, and more come to Garage project Journal

Lainie Huston — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:28:11 +0000

A short month ago, we released Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, and the Journal team is thrilled with the response so far. Building on user feedback and what the team has learned so far, they have already introduced new features, fine-tuned gestures, and started sketching new modes for the note-taking tool. Windows 10 users with a pen-capable device can try....

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A new ink-first experience with Journal, a Microsoft Garage project

Garage Team — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:28:40 +0000

There’s something magical when inspiration hits: that moment when a great idea starts to form, where you finally solve a big problem, or you find moments in the day to process your thoughts. For many of us the way to express this inspiration is through writing. We reach for a piece of paper to start capturing our ideas. We sketch....

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MileIQ team launches new Microsoft Garage project to simplify expense management

Lainie Huston — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:56:55 +0000

In the fall of 2015, a startup team committed to making mileage logging easier joined Microsoft to expand their ability to empower the self-directed worker. Today, the team that created MileIQ now announces an iOS app to simplify expense management. Spend, a Microsoft Garage project, is now available for download in the US App Store. The Microsoft Garage has released....

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