How To Use Windows Ink

Windows ten Tip: Getting started with the Windows Ink Workspace

Written By published October 10, 2016

Today, nosotros're talking well-nigh how to go started with Windows Ink* in four easy steps. Windows Ink is office of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and lets you capture ideas quickly and naturally with a pen or bear on-enabled device.

Become started with the Windows Ink Workspace

First, notice the Windows Ink Workspace, your canvas for all the ink-powered features and apps on your PC. The Workspace has built-in experiences like sketchpad, screen sketch and Sticky Notes, as well as apps optimized for pen use.

Press the Windows Ink Workspace button in your system tray at the lesser correct of your screen or click the dorsum of your pen**! If y'all don't see the icon, correct-click anywhere in the system tray and click on "Bear witness Windows Ink Workspace Button."

Take notes that go smart and active with Sticky Notes

Yous can find Gummy Notes in the Get-go menu or at the summit of your Windows Ink Workspace. Write an accost and Maps readies it for finding a road; jot down a few items and they become an like shooting fish in a barrel-to-manage checklist; scribble downwardly an email address and it tees up in your Post app.*** And, with Cortana, y'all tin can simply jot downward a fourth dimension or date with your note and information technology volition be highlighted. You lot tin then tap on information technology to create a Cortana reminder, bachelor across all the devices you have Cortana installed on.¹

You lot can even write down a flight number and click on the text when it turns blue to rail the flying right in the Gummy Note***.

Create in the sketchpad and trace with the digital ruler

The sketchpad in the Windows Ink Workspace is a elementary blank canvas where y'all can speedily and hands draw an thought, doodle, create, and solve issues.

You can as well utilize the digital ruler with Windows Ink to measure out distance or trace along a straight edge, just like on paper! Caput to the sketchpad or screen sketch within the Windows Ink Workspace and click on the ruler icon in the upper right-hand corner of the toolbar. Then, adjust the digital ruler and with your pen (or finger, if you click on the "bear upon writing" icon) to draw sharp lines along the edge.

Draw, crop and markup your desktop with screen sketch

Screen sketch lets you draw on a screen capture of your unabridged desktop – allowing yous to collaborate on documents as though y'all would with pen and paper or add together your personal bear on to an awesome pic y'all saw in the Photos app, and so easily share this with the rest of your world. Screen sketch is designed to exist the about natural way to freely express emotions and personalize content, so you can depict, ingather and mark upwards the unabridged image. Like to the sketchpad, information technology'south piece of cake for you to save and share these creations with your friends and colleagues.

If you aren't running the Windows ten Ceremony Update still, learn how to get information technology hither.

Have a groovy calendar week!

*Touch-capable tablet or PC required. Pen accessory may be sold separately.
**User must enable in settings and have a Bluetooth button on pen.
¹ Available in select markets; experience may vary by region and device.
***US only