Keep is Google's service for quick notes. It is available as an app for both iOS and Android, and can also be reached from the web, so it is a great way to create notes that you can easily reach everywhere. Through your Google account they sync while writing so that the notes are updated everywhere. The app comes pre -installed on many manufacturers' mobile phones.
It really is not a complicated app to get started with, you create a note by choosing, then the notes settled as a row of squares that you can color in post-it-like colors. Below the surface, however, there are a lot more advanced features you can enjoy once you start using the app.
1: Different types of notes in Keep
Keep is Google's service for quick notes. It is available as an app for both iOS and Android, and can also be reached from the web, so it is a great way to create notes that you can easily reach everywhere. Through your Google account they sync while writing so that the notes are updated everywhere. The app comes pre -installed on many manufacturers' mobile phones.
It really is not a complicated app to get started with, you create a note by choosing, then the notes settled as a row of squares that you can color in post-it-like colors. Below the surface, however, there are a lot more advanced features you can enjoy once you start using the app.
1: Different types of notes in Keep
You can choose from four types of notes in Keep.
When you press the Plus symbol to create a note, you get four choices. Text note, checklist, sketch and image. On the iPhone you get a regular note with the Plus button and the other options to the left of it. But really you are not locked to a type. You can add an image to a text note, for example, and if you want to pick out text from an image you can do so by pressing the image and selecting it in the point menu in the upper right. Then text in the image will be identified and inserted into the note. Similarly, in the sketch mode you can write a text by hand, and then ask the app to identify text in the sketch and print it.
The checklist creates a bulleted list where you can check points, and you can choose whether fired points should be hidden. For a list you reuse, you can choose to check all the bumped points to reset the list.
You can also convert a text note to a checklist. Open the note and press the Plus sign in the lower left corner. Choose check boxes, and the note is made for a checklist. You can also do the opposite and remove the check boxes. Then you press the three points next to the note's heading and select “Hide check boxes”.
2: Create notes with voice control
You can both create and add to lists and notes with Gemini.
To make voice -controlled notes, you must first activate a setting in Gemini. In the Gemini app, enter the account settings in the upper right corner and select Apps. Make sure Google Workspace is cruised. You also need to be logged in to the same google account in Gemini and Keep.
Once you have done so, you can create notes and checklists from Gemini. Start gemini for voice control and say for example: “Create a note in Keep and write that I should not forget to book dentist time”, and Keep will do so and give it a suitable headline (in my case dentist time). For example, you can say “Create a shopping list in Keep and add milk and sugar.” Then you get a checklist called “Purchase List” with the points “Milk” and “Sugar” Posted separately.
A common note is currently not replenished with Gemini, but on the other hand, the shopping list gets a connection to Gemini, which is visible on a button where there is Gemini at the bottom of the note. Once created, you can say, for example, “Add cheese and eggs to the shopping list”, so Gemini fills in the same checklist.
Keep also has its own speech for text function. Once you have created a note and are inside and edit it, you can press the plus icon in the bottom left and choose “records”. Then you can talk in what you want written. The text will appear transcribed in the note, and below it is the sound recording itself. You can do this in several rounds and you can, unlike with Gemini, replenish an existing note. You can edit the text you have spoken afterwards, and if you do not want the sound recording, you can delete it from the note without the text disappearing.
3: Keep in the clock
If you have a watch with Wear OS, Keep is one of the more useful apps you can install.
Watches with Wear OS, for example, are Galaxy Watch 7, Pixel Watch 3 or OnePlus Watch 3. On these watches you can choose to install the Keep app. If you do, you will have access to your notes even in the clock.
This has two advantages above all. On the one hand, if you have the shopping list in Keep, you can see it and check the goods without having to slip the mobile from your pocket. On the one hand, you can use the clock instead of the mobile to dictate a note with speech-to text recognition. This way you can create new notes in Keep on the go.
4: Share notes
You can easily share notes with other Keep users but the feature can be a little difficult to find.
To share a note or checklist, press the three points at the bottom right when the note is open and select the edit authorities. On the web you can instead see a symbol with a figure and a plus at the bottom of the note and it says “writing accessor” if you point it.
If you choose it, you can add more users to the note by entering their Gmail address with which they log into Keep. If you have a family group in Google, you can click on it and thus add the whole family to the note.
Anyone who shares the note or checklist can now see and edit in the same note and the changes appear immediately. Good for, for example, common to-do lists.
5: Sort notes with labels
If you have many Keep notes, the labels are a great way to sort them.
The Keep notes are displayed in a flow in the app that you can scroll in, either in one or in double rows. Since the notes are shown in quite large squares, more like post IT notes than as headings, you can often see what you want to know in the note without even opening it, but if you have many notes it can be a lot in the flow to scroll through. Then labels can be helpful.
Labels (or tags as it is called in many other apps with similar function) can be found in the menu at the top left of the app. Here you can create new labels and edit the ones available, Google has put in some ready -made suggestions. For example, you can have labels for jobs, leisure and to do lists. You can also add emojis to the names as well, but do not put them first because then the letter order does not work. If you press one of the labels, only the notes that are marked with that label are displayed.
To mark a note, enter it and press the menu with three dots down to the right. Choose labels so you can tick which labels you want the note to have. A note can thus have more than one label and belong to more than one category.
Compared to how many other apps handle tags, it is a bit more bookable to create and add labels to Keep. In return, you do not get a lot of junk labels because you happened to spell wrong when you would enter an existing label and instead create a new one.
6: Sort notes with the appearance
If you prefer to mark your notes, Keep offers a lot of opportunities to give them a unique look.
Just as the old post-itlays came in different colors so that you could easily see the difference between different notes, you can color codes your Keep notes to easily find a certain note in the flow, but the possibilities do not end there.
To change the color of a note, open it and click the icon that looks like a pallet at the bottom. Here you can choose from twelve different colors. But here you can also choose a background. In total, there are nine different background motifs to choose from, and they are enough discreet to prevent the note from being difficult to read. The backgrounds have fixed colors, so you cannot combine background and color to get even more options.
If you use color labeling on your notes, when you search for keywords in the notes, you can choose to search only in notes with a certain color.
7: Reminders
You can get reminders to your notes, both with time and space.
If you press the icon that looks like a church bell with a plus in, you can create a reminder for a note. The symbol is near the upper right corner when you have the note up in the app, or in the line below the note on the web.
Here you can choose to set a time and day because when you want a reminder to the note. You can also set a repeated reminder if it is something you want to be reminded of recurring. This in many ways duplicates the Google Calendar where you can also put things for reminders, and for that matter Google Tasks. Unfortunately, the services are not integrated, so if you put a reminder in Keep with date and time, it is not visible simultaneously in the Google Calendar. Setting a reminder to a Keep note fits well if, for example, you should fit a friend's cat and received extensive care instructions that you put in a note.
Another interesting feature is that you can put a reminder linked to a place instead of a time. Then you have to grant the authorization that Google Keep has access to your location all the time, and not just when the app is used. For example, you may want to take the opportunity to vaccinate against TBE the next time you pass the vaccian set in the center, then you can put that place to a note on vaccine, and you will get the reminder when you get near. You can basically specify any geographical position available in Google Maps.
Please note that if you have a to-do list with multiple points, you cannot put a reminder for an individual point on the list, or several reminders for different points. It is a reminder for the whole note that applies.
8: Pinna, archive and trash can
There are ways in Google Keep to both highlight and clean up notes.
After using Keep long enough, you probably have a hefty collection of note tags to keep order. By pressing and holding on a note you can move it so you can sort them and have the most important first. You can also clean away notes by throwing them away. Press the three dots in the lower corner and select Delete to remove a note. It will remain there a week and then it disappears permanently, so if you delete a note by mistake you can fish it again.
If you do not want an endless list of patches but at the same time still want to keep a note for the future, the archive is an alternative. Notes in the archive remain indefinitely without being deleted, but does not lie and take a seat on the notice board itself. To move a note to the archive, press the button that looks like a box with a downward arrow on. It is located in the upper right corner of the note, or at the bottom of the note on the web. You can also move a note to the archive simply by swiping it off the screen to the right or left.
The last thing is easy to make by mistake if you are in the process of sorting out among your notes by dragging and dropping them, and it can sometimes take a while before you notice that you accidentally archive a note. If you really do not want a note to disappear from the top of the app, you can pin it. Then it and other fastened notes remain in place at the top of the list. You needle a note by pressing the symbol that looks like a staple, at the top of the note.