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Google Keep is a surprising product. Religiously beloved by some, ignored by others, it's time to move it more into the spotlight. Google has been developing it in bursts - there have literally been two or three versions of it, compared to the other services that see continuous improvements. What started out as a simple note-keeping application has evolved into a productivity power-house.
So let's give it the love that it deserves, shall we? This is the first of several articles to help everybody get more out of it. Let's kick it off in Keep style - with lists and lists of usefulness.
A big thank you to Natalia Moroz who got all of this going and seems to be a Keep ninja!
Keeping content
Keeping content
Whatever comes to your mind: Meeting notes for yourself (use a minute document for official notes), ideas, reminders, to-do lists, citations, interesting blogs (hi!), document photos, recipes - all goes in there.
Diary
Events planning
Book summaries - remember Keep is fully searchable and integrates into Cloud Search
Bookmarks
Visual notebook - snap a picture of flipchart AND add your comments to the note
Checklists
Shopping lists, for me and to share with someone.
You'll have to use your personal Keep application (Android) or personal Keep profile (iOS) for this, unless you're dating a colleague.
Discount and loyalty cards.
Advanced uses
Advanced uses
Keep can remind you of anything - time and location based. Those reminders integrate with Google Calendar. You can combine this feature with note taking - just snap a picture of the book you need to return or the item you need to buy.
Keep is a simple yet powerful drawing tool that even works for several people at once.
You can draw on a blank, dotted, lined, square canvas
You can draw on top of pictures - maps, charts, photos.
You can draw on mobile or tablet, where you may have a pen. That'll be a whole other level.
OCR (optical character recognition) - Keep allows you to copy text from a photo.
Bonus
Bonus
Type keep.new into your browser to open a new tab and compose a new note. It will even position the cursor for you.
Keep is available in the G Suite side panel. You can access your notes in Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides at the moment.
The side panel enables you to drag and drop to and from Keep. This opens a whole world of possibilities, such as
drafting something now and finishing later. This is better and more versatile than using Gmail drafts for the same purpose.
Keep has become such a broad tool that it is up to you to define how you use it. So reach out and let me know of your use cases for Keep. Perhaps you have discovered something new today that helps you string the Google Workspace apps more closely together. Thank you for reading!
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