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PurpleCryptidOutbreak Jun 24, 2019 @ 10:51pm

Steam please add a Game Notes Journal so people can take notes in-game and save to the cloud.

I would love to be able to take notes within the Steam platform so I can have my gaming notes easily accessible to me on the platform I am interacting with instead of having to worry about loosing my physical gaming notes and having to find them each time I game. I believe there is a large percentage of the Steam Community who who take some form of notes while gaming, and there are a lot of games such as roguelikes or metroidvanias where note taking is almost required to make progress and that are very suitable for note taking. Please inplant a way to take notes within the game and to have a way to see all our entries by game type. I love Steam and have been a loyal member to my favorite gaming platform here for a long time and would love to hear from the developers if this is a possibility:)

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AmsterdamHeavy Jun 24, 2019 @ 11:14pm

Create a private group. Use the messaging for this. A lot of people do it.

PurpleCryptidOutbreak Jun 24, 2019 @ 11:30pm

Thanks for the suggestion I'll start right away on creating one.

cinedine Jun 24, 2019 @ 11:45pm

And once again I ask myself what's wrong with pen and paper? You can even draw maps and stuff!

PurpleCryptidOutbreak Jun 24, 2019 @ 11:59pm

Well Steam needs to stay competitive when so many companies are trying to create their own platforms for games and this is a suggestion to improve the platform in a way that would benefit a lot of people who use Steam. This is something that would be actually useful to have. To be able to quickly hit shift + tab and see what I wrote down about a particular item as to what it does or the directions to the boss fight. It's much faster to be able to type out this information then to have to write it all down. It's more convenient as well as physical notes can get lost, can get wet, ruined, and lack a quick way to search for information you need.

8ullfrog Jun 25, 2019 @ 1:11am

Well, if you don't mind over complicating it, you can email the notes to yourself through the web browser. But yeah, I still have a small notepad I put future notes with absolutely no context. I once found a recipe list I made for subnautica and wondered what the hell it was for a good 10 minutes.

On second thought, Amsterdam's suggestion is a lot less clunky.

Garou Jun 25, 2019 @ 4:01am

Yes he could make his own notes or keep an Excel/Google Docs spreadsheet with important info like I do for some games. However, this is his specific suggestion for steam overlay that should make gaming more convenient and it improves the Steam client.

Menzagitat Jun 25, 2019 @ 6:57am

Originally posted by SnowyNights_:
Well Steam needs to stay competitive when so many companies are trying to create their own platforms for games and this is a suggestion to improve the platform in a way that would benefit a lot of people who use Steam. This is something that would be actually useful to have. To be able to quickly hit shift + tab and see what I wrote down about a particular item as to what it does or the directions to the boss fight. It's much faster to be able to type out this information then to have to write it all down. It's more convenient as well as physical notes can get lost, can get wet, ruined, and lack a quick way to search for information you need.

I want this feature too.
A private review would solve this problem for the games I never owned.
Sadly I think Valve will not add it because they want us to forget why we avoided to buy a game.
I come back to a game later, I see on the store page that it is marked as "not interested" and I do not know anymore why.
The trick I start now using is to add my own "user defined" labels like "Bad AI", "Boring campaign" ...

8ullfrog Jun 25, 2019 @ 7:21am

I like the cut of your jib. I've come around on this idea too. Steam notepad seems like a fine idea now.

Back in the psx days, I had a monochrome windows 3.1 laptop. I'd download gamefaq walkthroughs and send them over. Now I mostly use my phone for that.

PurpleCryptidOutbreak Jun 25, 2019 @ 6:12pm

Thank you all for the idea on how to go about this. I have created a Group as a way for people to join and show their support for the creation of a SteamJournal, note-taking system for our favorite gaming platform. Please join as a way of showing your support and that you would like this to be developed.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/notes4ourgames

Last edited by PurpleCryptidOutbreak; Jun 25, 2019 @ 6:13pm

PurpleCryptidOutbreak Jun 25, 2019 @ 6:15pm

Originally posted by 8ullfrog:
I like the cut of your jib. I've come around on this idea too. Steam notepad seems like a fine idea now.

Back in the psx days, I had a monochrome windows 3.1 laptop. I'd download gamefaq walkthroughs and send them over. Now I mostly use my phone for that.

Thanks 8ullfrog. Please join the group I've created as a way for members to show their support for Steam to develop a notepad.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/notes4ourgames

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lanndo Oct 22, 2020 @ 4:55pm

Good suggestions, and yes a notebook functionality would be nice. I prefer to create Guides within each game, and leave them in unpublished draft form. the guide creation tool is nice for adding images, screenshots, and making section categories, and I keep a section for hyperlink references to outside resources. Too unstructured and personal for me to want to publish, but that approach ties my notebook to a specific game under "guides" in library, AND all of my notebooks in my Content section. Just my approach, used to use MS OneNote, then Evernote, then Google Keep, then... Trial and error... Would be easier to see a OneNote-style notebook in-game. Sigh.

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Start_Running Oct 22, 2020 @ 5:06pm

I would be totally on board with something like this. Just a couple text files stored locally or heck pt them in the steam cloud.

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PurpleCryptidOutbreak Oct 22, 2020 @ 5:23pm

I currently have a paper journal I use for all my gaming notes. If there was a dedicated Steam Journal that would be so much better and more convenient for me then having to grab my journal and a pen and paper each time i want to write something down in a game.

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