Steam now has a built-in cloud notepad you’ll be able to pin atop your sport

Valve has just 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 significantly superior concept: a touring notepad.

Sure, you’ve most likely already bought a notepad app in your PC, however does yours robotically 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 whilst 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’ll be able to 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’ll be able to even watch video whilst you’re taking part in a sport utilizing that browser, in accordance with Valve.

You’ll additionally see a brand new Recreation Overview once you pull up the overlay, a toolbar for fast entry to “something you might want in the course of a sport,” a revamped notifications tab and screenshot supervisor. The patch additionally brings elective {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’ll be able to see Valve’s full update post here with extra screenshots.

Valve says it’s beginning to ship these types of adjustments throughout Steam Desktop, Large Image Mode and Steam Deck concurrently — however the Deck solely has them in its Linux desktop mode as of as we speak. 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 have to opt into a Steam Beta to see any of this for now, till Valve provides the adjustments to a steady launch.