Microsoft Journal Help and Learning Microsoft Journal, an application for Windows, offers a delightful freeform personal notetaking experience designed for touch-focused, pen capable devices like tablets and 2-in-1s. Its gorgeous page-based canvas and AI powered tools, let you take notes and reason through ink fluidly and naturally. Journal is available from the Microsoft Store: Microsoft Journal.
Customizing Journals From the Home Screen you can customize the name color, or icons of your journals. This helps make them easy to identify and helps you organize how your thoughts are organized into different journals. Creating a New Journal From the Home Screen tap the Add New Journal button. Switch between writing or typing the journal name from the button in the lower left. Type or write ...
While Journal will run on any system that meets these requirements, it is intended to be used with a pen. So it is best used on systems with touch that support active pen.
Within a journal you can use the Side Panel to navigate your notes using the Pages tab . From the Pages tab, you can add a new page by tapping the Add Page button at the end of the thumbnails. Cards tab in the Side Panel Cards allow you to view recognized ink and other content in snippets, like Headlines, Stars, Drawings, or @Mentions.
Working with pages Working with pages Scrolling Pages Use your finger to scroll between pages. Scroll to Add a New Page A new page will be created at the end of each journal as you scroll. To prevent multiple blank pages being created you will find a ghosted page at the end of the journal if the page above it is also blank. Tap or start writing on the page to add it. Add a Page from the Side ...