Facebook has given a significant makeover to its long-ignored feature: Notes. Now, the feature allows users to add cover photos, put captions and format texts, among other things.
Facebook discussed the most recent update on the feature through a blog post on Friday, Sept. 25.
"We’re rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable," writes Isaac Salier-Hellendag, a User Interface Engineer. "Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone—whether it’s a small group of friends or everyone on Facebook."
It appears that Facebook is making the revamped version of Notes available to everyone in a bid to boost its publishing features, stimulating its 1.49 billion active users to think about the social network as a place for posting blogs as well. It is also purported that Facebook wants to rival Medium, a blogging platform established by Ev Williams, a Twitter co-founder.
The redesigned version of Notes comes with basic formatting tools, including block quotes, headers, as well as bulleted and numbered lists.
"With this update, you can add a cover photo that represents what your note is all about," reads the blog post.
The user may put a caption on the photo with the updated version. Photos can also be resized through the feature.
In addition, the refreshed Notes touts more visually enticing layouts as well as new fonts to make the notes appear like a blog post and not just an extended user status.
Facebook's last update to the feature was in 2010.
In August, Facebook did an experimental facelift of Notes with the aim to give the feature a sense of importance and permanence. It seems that the experiment was a success.
Facebook users should already notice the enhancement. They can access Notes by visiting Facebook.com/notes. Users should also search "notes" on mobile.
Even though the latest version of Notes is viewable on both the web and mobile versions, it is worth noting that note creation is only restricted to the web version as of the moment. The company, however, did not go into detail if this may change in the near future.
