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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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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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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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New Garage project Sketch Pal offers advanced, intelligent inking features

Lainie Huston — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:06:39 +0000

It’s that time of year again! And no, we’re not talking about the leaves changing color, pumpkin picking, or deciding on the best pop culture reference to inspire your Halloween costume (The Scoops Ahoy crew from Stranger Things, obviously) for those of us residing in the Pacific Northwest. We’re talking about Inktober, the annual artist community challenge to create a....

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The napkin disrupted: meet Ink to Code, a Microsoft Garage project

Lainie Huston — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:00:26 +0000

Urban legend has it that some of the greatest ideas in history started with a napkin. The Gettysburg Address, the poem that gave way to the U.S. National Anthem, and the premise of the Harry Potter series—each were reportedly born into the world through the medium of sketches on scrap paper—and when app creators put pen to paper for their....

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