Windows 10: Microsoft Garage Journal not recognizing stylus pen

Bratatouille · Mar 20, 2022

I have a stylus pen that doesn't have bluetooth connectivity but does have a powered tip. When I attempt to write in Journal both tips of the pen simply move the page around instead of putting ink on the page. I can't find a way to contact the Microsoft Garage team and am incredibly frustrated! I've gone through three stylus pens trying to find something that works. I have tried reinstalling the application as well.

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Acelyn Alc · Mar 20, 2022

stylus pen

Hi,

We would like to know more about your concern. Please provide the following information so we can assist you better:

Were you able to use your stylus pen before without any issues?

When did you start having this issue?

Are you getting any error messages when using your stylus pen for drawing?

What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

We will be waiting for your response.

Brink · Mar 20, 2022

Microsoft Garage Journal app gets print, custom ink colors, and more

A short month ago, we released Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, and the Journal team is thrilled with the response so far. Building on user feedback and what the team has learned so far, they have already introduced new features, fine-tuned gestures, and started sketching new modes for the note-taking tool. Windows 10 users with a pen-capable device can try out everything new now, via the newest version in the Windows Store.

Journal was designed to be a lightweight, ink-first, page-based experience to celebrate digital pen users who prefer the simplicity of the hand-written, but with the power of digital. The project allows Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group to optimize and experiment with new ink gestures that help keep users in the flow of their ink without the need for mode switches. Of course, it works with Office apps with improved Export and Copy capabilities.

What’s New

The team is excited to share some new features, all based on the feedback users have been able to share. They’re now available to try out via the Windows Store for users who update to the latest version of Journal on their PC.

Print and Export You can now print and export your journal pages to a printer, a PDF, or to OneNote. From the page menu or the navigation panel you can select what to include

Custom ink colors Tap the pen or pencil to reveal the new custom color picker you can choose

Support for pen pressure  From the Settings > Pen Settings menu you can now turn on pressure sensitivity for a more real-life pen and pencil feel. Requires a supported pen

Insert Images You’ll be able to easily insert images from the toolbar under the + icon. You can still copy and paste or drag and drop images manually as well

Bug fixes and performance It wouldn’t be a release without some behind the scenes user experience work. Journals should open more reliably, and general performance should feel better, too

Try out these news features today, and tell the team what you think.

In the margins

While Microsoft never knows the contents of your journals, usage data helps the team understand what types of things you are writing.

The team has also gained valuable insights about gestures in Journal.

Scratch out correctly helps you correct a quick mistake 98% of the time and has quickly become the most used ink gesture.

Lassoing your content just by circling it has also been a big hit – it’s on par with our other ways Journal makes it easy to work with your ink: tapping with your finger, circling with your pen, or tapping the cues that appear for our detected ink.

The Journal team has built upon gesture feedback, tuning these interactions to be even more robust.

By popular request

The Journal team has been reading every bit of feedback to see what changes they can implement in the experience. A top request has been new page types. Here’s an early design sketch for Page Styles that’s planned to release soon.

Tip of the day

If you have a pen that has a shortcut button, like a Surface Pen’s eraser, you can click it while within a journal to have it switch between the Pen, the Pencil, and the Highlighter. This makes it faster to switch tools without having to interact with the ink menu. Let the team know what you think, and what else you might like to see Journal do.

Try it out

Download Journal for your Windows 10, pen-capable device via the Windows Store. Thank you for the feedback; please keep it coming. Happy inking!
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Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/gara...oject-journal/

Brink · Mar 20, 2022

New Microsoft Journal app update for Windows 10 and Windows 11

Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, is an ink and touch-first note-taking experience that uses AI to help you stay in the flow of your writing. You can use scratch out to quickly erase something, tap ink to quickly select a word or sentence, and use search to filter to things you’ve written like an item you starred or doodle you made.

You can download Journal on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 pen-enabled device from the Microsoft Store for free today. Existing users can run Journal and tap Settings > Check for Update.

The Journal team released the following updates based on feedback from our users, including:

Improvements to instant lasso

New music staff page style

New ability to multi-select

Support to import password-protected PDFs

Support for writing in different languages

Improved ink-to-text recognition when copying out of Journal

Ability to save your pen preferences across sessions

Tips on how to roam your journals across devices

Improvements to instant lasso

Journal has an improved AI to better handle cases where you write and circle items quickly, like numbers in a bulleted list, to avoid accidently selecting them. You can still perform the instant lasso on any ink or item that has been on the page for more than a second.

New music staff page style

If you are a music creator, you now have new options with page styles for music staff pages. Using Journal to write your music is easier than ever. Use scratch out to quickly edit your work and try instant lasso to easily select and move your notes—music or otherwise—around.

Ability to multi-select

You can also do this by holding the CTRL key on your keyboard and tapping with your finger. If you continue to tap the same item it will select the next level up— like word to sentence— but now with this additional multi-select you can pick whatever ink or item on that page to select.

Import password-protected PDFs

You can now import your protected PDFs into a journal. Note that anything imported can be viewed without a password.

Support for writing in multiple languages (preview)

While Journal is currently localized for English, you can now set different writing language default or set different language options per page. Setting a page language helps the Ink AI recognize what you are writing more accurately.

To change the default language the application uses, go to Settings > Language Settings (Preview).

To adjust what each page uses, tap the … > Page Language. Pages that use a different language from the application default will have an indicator in the page header.

Current supported languages are English (United States, Great Britain), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Save your pen settings

By default, Journal will reset the pen tool back to the black pen so you can confidently return to Journal and jot your ideas down. To save your last pen state, toggle to Settings > Pen Options > Remember Pen State option.

Improved ink-to-text

Journal now includes Microsoft’s latest ink-to-text technology. When you select ink and copy it as text to other apps you should see improved accuracy in the translation. Also, when you write a new journal title or use the search box you will see improved performance.

General bug fixes and performance

Improved handling of opening and saving journals, especially on network drives

Headers and stars are detected more accurately

Improved performance of ink

How to roam your journals

Journal saves your pages locally in .ink files, typically in your Documents folder.

If you want to access your journals across different devices, use a service like OneDrive to roam your documents. Note that if you open the same journal on multiple devices at the same time you may end up with multiple copies of that journal. Close a journal from one device before opening on another for the best experience.

Recap of Journal’s newest features

Since its launch in February, Journal has received many updates based on feedback:

Ability to print to PDF or export to OneNote

Choose custom pen colors and provide new pen thickness options

Custom page styles including lined, graph, dotted, storyboard, and blank

Support to enable pen and pencil pressure for those that want a more expressive feel

Drag selected items across pages to easily move your best ideas around

Improved accessibility for people using narrator and keyboard

Improved performance across different devices

Improves scratch out behaviors to better erase what you need to

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Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/gara...ages-and-more/

Download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/app/9n318r854rhh

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