As part of my job as a technical writer, and as part of my ongoing efforts to conduct some points, I have tested an entire pile of apps taking note through years: simple, sophisticated, bizarre, united, and go on it. It is a popular app category, and there is no shortage of options.
Among all these different options, one of the apps that I am returning to myself regularly Google KeepIt is sharp and easy, it works about any device, and once you dig a slightly darker in its colorful sticky note interface, there are many useful features to take advantage of it.
Whether you are looking at a current Google user to more with the app or you are wondering if you keep Google, it is enough to woo you with whatever note you are using at this time, these are some of its most attractive features.
From the very beginning, the colorful post-ice note look of Google Keep gives you a clean way to arrange your notes: yellow for shopping lists and yellow for blue, for example, or whoever suits you.
In addition to the default white, there are 11 separate pastel colors, and above that, you have found nine background pictures that you can use instead, covering topics such as festivals, locations, dishes and music.
These backgrounds can be swapped around by clicking at any time. Paint Plette icon Below every note.
Google borrowed a trick from Gmail with the label: individual notes may have many labels, so some can be tagged with “family” and “immediate” or “ideas” and “holidays”. This is an easy way to bring an order for your notes, even their number increases in dozens or hundreds.
Labels can also help you with discoveries. As you will expect from Google product, Google Keep has a search function that is sharp and accurate: click inside the search box on top of the web interface, and you can limit your query to notes matching a certain label (or color or color).
On the web, your labels are listed on the left side for easy access. To apply a label to an open note, click on three dots under the note, then Add label (Or Change label,
Now you can format your lesson in both Android and Web Ersoions Keep. You can bold, italicized, underlined or crossed it; You can also change the size to the title H1 or H2. Look for the icon with one Underlined A Under the note. (Unfortunately, it is not yet available in the iOS version.)
If you want to be able to check the item in a list, it is easy: in an open note, click Three dots (Or Plus icon In the mobile app at the bottom of the note) and select Show checkbox(If you decide that you don’t want them, you can go back and choose Hide checkbox,
Google lets you cooperate on notes with other people, too, becomes complicated at any time without convenience. Click Cooperative icon On an open note (figure with a plus next to it), then enter the email address of contacts you want to share. (On the mobile app, you will get the icon by clicking on three dots under the screen.)
You do not see what you edit as you do in Google Docs, but you get an update when someone changes the note, and you can see who your colleagues are.
With collaboration, the reminder is a really useful feature implemented in a straightforward way. You can get information from the Google Keep app at a specific time or when you reach a specific place (if you have been installed a mobile app). The reminder can be set to repeat, so you can install a domestic core list that gives you a elbow at the same time every week.
To set a reminder on the web version, just click a little bit Remind me The icon below each note (which looks like a small bell), then set the option as required. On the mobile version, the icon is at the top of the screen.
Sometimes, you make a note that you want to find immediately. In that case, you can pin the note on top of your list by tapping the pin icon at the top of the note. However, be careful about paying attention to it; I sometimes feel that if I pin a lot of notes, they become as difficult as I did not pin them at all.
You can not only add images to the notes using the image icon at the bottom of the note, but you can also remove the text from them. In the web version, just click on three dots, then Hold the image textIn the mobile version, tap on the image, then Three dots In the upper right and Hold the image textAs long as the letters in the photo or in your drawing are quite well -founded, one of them is given a copy below – something that can be very easy if you are, for example, taking a picture of business cards.
You can add hand -prepared scribals. In the web version, click Three dots And then Add drawingIn the mobile version, click Plus icon And drawing,
Notes can be converted quickly into documents in Google Docs by clicking on three dots at the bottom of a note. Copy on google docks(Click in the mobile app, Three dots And select Send> Copy Google Docks,
- You can record voice notes by tapping Plus icon Under the screen and then Audio (Android) or tapping Plus icon And then Recording (iOS). In the note made, the audio file will be both as embed and the text with the audio’s transcript. This may be particularly useful if you need to record an idea quickly for later use; If you have a keep Accelerated occupation Widget on your homescreen, you can tap it or say “Google, can take a note” to record your new note.
- You can also add a photo to an open note by tapping Plus icon And then Take photoIf you want to start a new note with photo, just tap Plus icon Under the screen, tap imageAnd choose either Take photo (For a new picture) or Choose image (To select one from your photo gallery).
Update on 5 June 2025: This article was originally published on 16 October 2019, and has been updated to change the OS and to add additional features.
