The news came from SteamDB creator and Steam dataminer Pavel Djundik, who tweeted, “Valve is working on a ‘game notes’ system, which will be available in the Steam library, and on the web.”
Experts say the term “game notes” is vague since it can mean many things. But the game notes that the Steam dataminer referred to, according to them, are a way of attaching private notes to games to keep track of the things players need to be reminded of while gaming, without having to write the notes down on paper or using the alt-tab keys.
Before, gaming manuals usually had a blank page or two for notes at the back portion. To remember codes or strings of numbers, gamers use screenshots, links, and text notes, among many others.
Notes are a feature that the gaming community has requested for years. Yes, this wishlist has been going on for years. In fact, in 2018, there was a post on the Steam subreddit that said, “Could we get a notepad with the Steam overlay? This would be great for working strategies on CS and noting builds in Dota 2.”
This type of suggestion appeared once again in 2019 on the official Steam forum. A user pointed out, “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] 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.”
Aside from these game notes, Djundik also revealed that Valve is also considering introducing new notification features to Steam. Similar to the mobile app, these are expected to inform users of Steam’s new releases, sales, special offers, and much more.
He replied to a netizen on Twitter, “They’re also working [on] a notifications page, similar to the notifications page in the mobile app. The new notification system should also be used in the Steam client, once they finish replacing old vgui parts of the client (outer shell, settings, server browser, etc).”
However, take these information with a grain of salt. Nothing has been confirmed yet by Valve.
