Google Keep is a note-taking app that is a fraction of Google’s G-Suite which is available on your device through its browser as well as on phones as a separate app. With Keep, you can take notes, make lists, and store images by typing, speaking, or drawing. An amazing fact is that Keep can also convert your handwritten notes into text. Along with this, it is a cloud-based service, hence, all of your notes will be saved with your Google account, automatically syncing across your devices.
What Makes Google Keep So Useful?
Google Keep has a big advantage over the color-coded notes in ColorNote Notepad. This is because Keep syncs notes across all devices, while on ColorNote you need to manually backup your notes to transfer them between your PC and mobile phone. Other note-taking apps such as Note Reminder – Easy Notify lack Google Keep’s ability to add images and drawings to notes. Also, ColorNote and Note Reminder are not available for iOS.
What Can Google Keep Do?
Google Keep proposes a broad variety of helpful features which are as follows:
1. Dictate Notes
You can tap the Google Keep microphone to speak your notes and Keep will transcribe as you speak.
2. Take a Photo and Capture Text
Click a photo with your phone’s camera and Keep will find any text in the image while transcribing the image to text with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
3. Create a Checklist
You can turn your note into a checklist with a toggle switch that adds small checkboxes in front of each note. This will allow you to cross items off your list.
4. Draw a Note
With Keep’s pen icon you can draw images or write notes using different colors, with thick and thin line options.
5. Assign a Due Date
You can also put a reminder or a date to your note. This will automatically appear on your Google Calendar.
6. Search and Organize Your Notes
Keep allows you to label your notes and/or use colors to create categories of notes. This way, you can search your notes by tag, color, or keyword to find a specific note you need.
7. Location Reminders
You can set Keep to send you a reminder when you reach a specific location by adding an address. Suppose you have a note to ‘Buy milk’, you will receive a notification when your device recognizes you are near the grocery store. For this feature to work, the location of the device must be turned on.
8. Bookmark Web Pages
You can copy text from a web page and create a note. Keep will save the URL and any copied content you highlighted from the page.
9. Expand a Note Into a Google Doc
Suppose you are writing a note and it gets too long, you can convert this note into a Google Doc. All you need to do is just click on ‘Copy to Google Docs’ option to instantly add all content from a note, including text, images, and drawing into a new Google Doc.
10. Pin Important Notes
Save your time from searching for notes by pinning the important notes on top of the Keep desktop. You can archive the notes you think you may need someday and delete notes you no longer need.
11. Collaborate With Google Keep
You can also share a note with a group for Keep to automatically sync everyone’s activity. For example, you can share your household grocery list with your family and every member will have the ability to add and cross off items as they are purchase.
Google Keep’s Limits
There is no monthly limit on how many notes you can create with Google Keep each month but, each note has a character limit of 20,000 characters.
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