In this day and age, we tend to be more busy than ever before, with tons of tasks to keep up to, and it can be all too easy to forget about what lies ahead when our days are jam-packed with appointments left and right. Of course, having an organizer would go a long way in helping us figure things out, to make sure that we do not miss an appointment somewhere along the day. Good thing there is Google Keep, an app that helps remind you of important tasks as well as errands at just the right time and place.
Take for instance,Keep will play nice with Google Now in order to let you know that there is a grocery list waiting for you each time you enter your favorite grocery store, while gently reminding you on Thursday night that it is time for the trash to be taken out. To get off the right footing, choose the “Remind me” button from the bottom of any note, and select the type of reminder that you want to add. Other than that, you too, are able to add time-based reminders for a specific date and time, as well as a more general time of day including tomorrow morning. You can get the latest version of Google Keep from the Play Store.
Google Keep is getting updated with location-based and time-based reminders. Now you’ll be able to pester yourself about the stuff on your todo list with ease, and there’s even a menu where you can see all your upcoming pings. Remind yourself to check it out.
Google’s new note taking service, Google Keep, was announced back in March. Keep stores notes, which may also include photos and checklists, in Google Drive from where they are synced to all devices associated with that particular account. While the service can be accessed through the web as well, today the company has launched Google Keep Chrome app, which makes it even easier for users to access their notes and make additions straight from the browser itself.
Once installed, the Google Keep Chrome app will launch in its own windows. From there, users can keep themselves up to date with their to-do lists, create or edit notes and even attach photos to tasks. This app will even work when the computer is not connected to the internet. It works just as well offline, though for obvious reasons, it needs an internet connection to sync up with Google Drive. Google Keep app for Chrome is now live and available for download. You won’t be able to find it in search at Chrome Web Store, its much easier to use this link if you want to install the app on Chrome.
Google’s answer to the heaps of note-taking apps out there is now available in the Chrome Web Store. Google Keep has come to the desktop after being released on Android back in March, allowing users to take notes on their computer and have them synced up to their Android devices for on-the-go use.
With the Chrome app, Google Keep opens in its own window, allowing you to experience the app in full web browser mode. It also supports offline mode, so if you’re not around a WiFi connection, you can still jot down notes, and the app will save them locally until your computer is back online, where it will then sync changes to your Android device.
Google was released as an Android-only app back in March, and it’s basically Google’s answer to Evernote and other note-taking apps out there on the market. Keep aims to be a central place to jot down notes and record things that you want to come back to later, including photos, websites, lists, etc. All your notes are stored in Google Drive and synced across all your devices.
You can read our review of Google Keep to learn more about it, but essentially, it’s not an Evernote competitor just yet. However, we really like the design of Google Keep and it’s quickness with navigating around the app. It definitely has potential, and we’re sure that we’ll see more features for it in the future.
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With Google Keep you’ve got a note-taking interface created by the company to be a one-stop-shop inside Android. Like Google Now, this is another value-added element that will be present in most or all future Android devices, and it’s tied to your Google account through Google Drive. If you head to https://drive.google.com/keep/ right this minute (and you’re logged in to your Google account), you’ll find an interface not unlike the one we’re looking at today on an Android smartphone.
Google Keep allows you to take a note that includes any of the following: typed text, dictated text, recorded sound (with dictated text – a bit different than a straight-up sound recording), photos (but not video as of the publish date of this review), and checklists. This system is an extremely sleek, basic, and simplistic iteration of what Google’s competitors work with.
Above: Google Keep on the LG-made Google Nexus 4 smartphone with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
If you look at Evernote, you’ll find a system for taking notes that’s able to accept emailed notes, works with Skitch for hand-written notes and drawings, works with sound recordings in full, video, photos, text, searchable images, business card scanning, and much, much more. Basically Evernote is currently in a whole different league when it comes to being all-inclusive.
In Google Keep you’ve got Google’s take on things. While we’d be baffled if we heard a Google employee claim this was a good competitor with the other more mature systems out there, it wouldn’t be out of the question for Google’s set of features to eclipse the rest in a few years time. But that’s a bit forward-thinking – this app has just been released this week.
You’ll be able to access a new note through several shortcuts, immediately moving to your camera for a photo, your keyboard in a note for text typing, your keyboard and a list for checklists, or a microphone for voice recording/dictation. These four shortcuts are represented by familiar icons along a bar that can exist on your smartphone or tablet as a widget on your homescreen.
Hot Stuff: Google Keep also offers a couple of Lockscreen Widgets for Android 4.2+ that you can use to access your notes right at the power button.
While what you’re able to do with these notes is relatively limited, the entire interface is exceedingly smooth, and it is rather nice to be able to instantly access the notes you take from your smartphone, tablet, or desktop machine on the fly. You can download the Android app from the Google Play app store now absolutely free, and we wouldn’t be surprised if an iOS version came calling sooner than later. Check it out!
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In this day and age, we tend to be more busy than ever before, with tons of tasks to keep up to, and it can be all too easy to forget about what lies ahead when our days are jam-packed with appointments left and right. Of course, having an organizer would go a long way in helping us figure things out, to make sure that we do not miss an appointment somewhere along the day. Good thing there is Google Keep, an app that helps remind you of important tasks as well as errands at just the right time and place.
