Steam now has a built-in cloud notepad you may pin atop your recreation

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 significantly superior thought: a touring notepad.

Sure, you’ve in all probability already bought a notepad app in your PC, however does yours mechanically pop up the right file that corresponds to every recreation you play? Are you able to overlay it on high of your recreation so it’s seen when you play? Does it mechanically sync from PC to PC by way of 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 recreation: Valve says Guides, Discussions, and the Steam internet browser can all be summoned into your recreation with adjustable opacity — you may even watch video when you’re taking part in a recreation utilizing that browser, in response to Valve.

You’ll additionally see a brand new Sport Overview if you pull up the overlay, a toolbar for fast entry to “something chances are you’ll want in the midst of a recreation,” 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 may see Valve’s full replace submit right 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 at this time. 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 choose right into a Steam Beta to see any of this for now, till Valve provides the adjustments to a steady launch.