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-Recreation Overlay within the Steam Beta, amongst different recent coats of paint. It additionally comes with one notably superior concept: a touring notepad.

Sure, you’ve in all probability already bought a notepad app in your PC, however does yours robotically pop up the right 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 robotically 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 net browser can all be summoned into your sport with adjustable opacity — you may even watch video when you’re taking part in a sport utilizing that browser, in response to Valve.

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

Valve says it’s beginning to ship these types of adjustments throughout Steam Desktop, Huge Image Mode and Steam Deck concurrently — however the Deck solely has them in its Linux desktop mode as of right this moment. Valve’s Lawrence Yang confirms that options just like the Notes mode shall 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 steady launch.