Microsoft Journal helps you create neat shapes and straight lines in ink, through AI-powered shape detection and enhancement. 

Automatic Shape Enhancement

Activate shape enhancement by holding your pen for a second after drawing a desired shape. If Journal recognizes the desired shape, it will enhance your drawing into a standard shape in ink; otherwise, the ink will remain as-is in drawing.

If the result isn’t what you hoped for, you can undo the enhancement by hitting the undo button on the toolbar, or by using the undo hotkey (Ctrl+Z). 

Supported Shapes

There are a variety of standard shapes that Journal supported, as below. 

  • Straight line

  • Circle

  • Ellipse

  • Triangle

  • Square

  • Rectangle

  • Quadrilateral

  • Diamond

  • Trapezoid

  • Parallelogram

  • Pentagon

  • Hexagon

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