Google Keep - Notes and Lists

Google LLC

About this app

Quickly capture what’s on your mind and get a reminder later at the right place or time. Speak a voice memo on the go and have it automatically transcribed. Grab a photo of a poster, receipt or document and easily organize or find it later in search. Google Keep makes it easy to capture a thought or list for yourself, and share it with friends and family.

Capture what’s on your mind
• Add notes, lists and photos to Google Keep. Pressed for time? Record a voice memo and Keep will transcribe it so you can find it later.
Share ideas with friends and family
• Easily plan that surprise party by sharing your Keep notes with others and collaborating on them in real time.
Find what you need, fast
• Color and add labels to code notes to quickly organize and get on with your life. If you need to find something you saved, a simple search will turn it up.
Always within reach
• Keep works on your phone, tablet, computer and Android wearables. Everything you add syncs across all of your devices so your thoughts are always with you.
The right note at the right time
• Need to remember to pick up some groceries? Set a location-based reminder to pull up your grocery list right when you get to the store.
Available everywhere
• Try Google Keep on the web at http://keep.google.com and find it in the Chrome Web Store at http://g.co/keepinchrome.

Ratings and reviews

Useful, but it seems to be optimized for people who don't actually use it much. No nesting (as others have pointed out), and the interface takes up waaaaay too much space. I'd prefer a view with one or two lines that just shows me the note title instead of having to scroll thru a patchwork of things that constantly shift around on their own without any logical reason. You can filter for specific labels, but that gets reset everytime you go to a different task on your phone.

Good app for taking notes. Advantages: simplicity, cross-platform, free. Disadvantages: you can't format text, there are no folders (there are tags, but you can't use them to make nesting), you can't make notes with a checklist and with text (either one or the other), you can't make an audio note without voice recognition, you can only attach photos to notes.

Keep really needs a way to go back in time for reviving mistakenly edited notes. I didn't realize I had completely deleted all the text in an important note related to one of the classes I teach. I just realized now there's no way possible to go back and retrieve the missing text like in other note and text saving applications. It's a pretty app but not having any kind of version history means it's not reliable at all for any kind of serious work.

What's new

* Bug fixes and performance improvements