Steam now has a built-in cloud notepad you can pin atop your game

Valve has simply shipped an enormous UI overhaul to Steam’s In-Sport Overlay within the Steam Beta, amongst different contemporary coats of paint. It additionally comes with one notably superior thought: a touring notepad.

Sure, you’ve most likely already obtained a notepad app in your PC, however does yours mechanically pop up the proper file that corresponds to every sport you play? Are you able to overlay it on high of your sport so it’s seen when you play? Does it mechanically sync from PC to PC through the cloud? Valve says its new Notes app does all of that, and works offline too.

It’s not the one window you may newly pin atop a sport: Valve says Guides, Discussions, and the Steam internet browser can all be summoned into your sport with adjustable opacity — you may even watch video when you’re enjoying a sport utilizing that browser, in keeping with Valve.

You’ll additionally see a brand new Sport Overview whenever you pull up the overlay, a toolbar for fast entry to “something chances are you’ll want in the course of a sport,” a revamped notifications tab and screenshot supervisor. The patch additionally brings non-obligatory {hardware} acceleration for the Linux model of Steam, with Mac on the way in which, and minor UI tweaks to different elements of the interface. You may see Valve’s full replace submit right here with extra screenshots.

Valve says it’s beginning to ship these kinds of adjustments throughout Steam Desktop, Massive Image Mode and Steam Deck concurrently — however the Deck solely has them in its Linux desktop mode as of in the present day. Valve’s Lawrence Yang confirms that options just like the Notes mode might be coming to the Deck gaming mode later too, although.

You’ll must decide right into a Steam Beta to see any of this for now, till Valve provides the adjustments to a secure launch.