These are the best Google Keep Tips for desktop.
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I’m Tasia Custode and welcome back to my YouTube Channel where I share tech tips and
app reviews, but mainly it’s all Google all the time around here.
And today is no different.
These are the best google keep tips, desktop addition.
Let’s go!
So first things first, if you’re new to Google Keep and want to learn how to use Google
Keep, or how to even access Google Keep, you’ll want to check out my tutorial via the link
below or by clicking here.
Once you do that, then come back for these tips - it’ll make a lot more sense then,
I promise.
With that said, tip number one is to add an image to Google Keep.
So there are a couple of ways to add images to Google Keep.
First, if you’re already in a note, click on the image icon near the bottom of the note,
and simply select the image you’d like to add, and then you have an image in the note.
And by the way, to delete an image, just hover over it and click on the trash icon that appears
in the bottom right.
If you’re not in an existing note, you can still add an image.
This time, up in the ‘take a note’ box at the top, click on the image icon to the
very right.
Select an image from your computer, and your image will be added to a new note.
And by the way, you can add multiple images to a Keep note as well.
Google Keep tip number 2 is to collaborate in notes.
This is so helpful if you work with a team, or even want to share a note with family members.
So there are multiple ways to do this too.
So, from your main Notes dashboard, you can hover your mouse over the note, click the
collaborator icon.
Then, in this pop-up here you can add a person or email that you want to share the note with.
Or, if you’re currently in a note already - let’s say you’re taking meeting notes
and you’re ready to add collaborators, you can just click on that collaborator icon near
the bottom left of the note and add those you want to share the note with and click
save.
You can add as many people as you want, and they don’t even have to have a Gmail account.
They’ll still get an email notification asking them to collaborate on a note.
You’ll have icons here indicating those that are shared on the note.
And of course, you can have different people collaborating on different notes.
Keep tip number 3: convert notes to checklists.
This is a timesaver when it comes to note-taking.
So, let’s say you’ve written a note quickly and you realize that maybe you rather have
this note be a checklist so you can check items off your to-do list.
So, all you have to do is click on the three-dot menu icon near the bottom and select ‘show
checkboxes’ and your note has converted automatically into a list for you.
Then, you can just check items off your list one at a time.
Easy as that.
Number 4 on my list of best Google Keep tips is to set a reminder.
This is so helpful if you’re forgetful like me.
From a note in Google Keep, you have a little bell icon in the bottom left.
If you click on that you’ll have a ton of reminder options to choose from.
In fact, if you have home and work addresses set in Google Maps, it’s going to pull those
automatically for you here.
But, the important thing here is that you can pick a date and time you want to be reminded
at and you can even select if this is a repeating reminder or not.
And you’ll just tap on ‘save’ to save the date and time reminder, and what’s great
is that this reminder is automatically added to your Google Calendar.
But you can also set a reminder based on location.
So to be clear you can choose date and time or location reminders.
Not both at the same time.
So, once again, from that bell icon you’d select ‘pick a place’ and then you’d
add in the address of the place.
In order for this to work, you need to allow the permission in the app because once a location
reminder is set, you’ll get a notification when you get to that spot.
So, think about how helpful this would be for shopping lists, and then you get that
notification when you arrive to the grocery store.
And before we pop on into tip number 5, if you’re liking this video so far, please
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And moving on to tip number 5: color-code your notes.
If you guys have watched some of my other videos, you know I’m a big color blocker.
It’s just a nice visual cue for me and helps with my organization.
Well, you may have noticed some of my notes in Google Keep are different colors.
So, all you have to do is click on the little paint palette icon - this is the background
colors option.
Then, from here you can pick a color, or you can even pick a theme.
And remember, most of these little tips, you don’t have to be in a note for, you can
just hover over a note from your dashboard here and get those same icons along the bottom.
Google Keep tip number 6: Add a label.
This is another organization tip you are going to want to take advantage of.
So click the three dot menu icon near the bottom of the note.
The second option here is the option to add a label.
This is really key for organizing all your notes.
Think if you just had thousands of notes all floating around in here, you’d have to manually
search for anything and everything.
But, if you add labels, you can quickly find anything you’re looking for.
So click ‘add label’ and here you can either create a new label or add it to a label
you’ve already created.
So now on the left hand side of your notes dashboard, you can quickly drill down your
notes per label.
Plus, all of these things like locations, collaborators, and labels we’re adding will
be viewable at a quick glance of your note.
So it’s like adding custom tags to every note.
Like this one is tied to an address and shared, this one is labeled for YouTube, etc.
And you can edit your labels at any time by the way, by clicking on the ‘edit labels’
option on the left.
This brings us to tip number 7 and that is to archive notes.
This is not the same as deleting a note entirely, by the way, but it’s a great way to clean
up your main notes dashboard.
So all you have to do is click on the archive icon near the bottom of a note.
Archiving is great for when you’re all done with that note or task list, because it’ll
remove the note from the main notes dashboard here, but if you select the archive option
on the left-hand panel of your screen, you’ll have all your archive notes there.
And don’t worry if you archived by mistake or if you have to reopen a note or project,
if you hover over that note, now you have the option to un-archive it and it’ll move
it back to your Notes section.
You can of course fully delete a note by clicking the 3 dot menu icon in the note, and selecting
delete note.
This will move it to your trash bin which you can access here on the left.
You can either manually empty your bin, but notes are automatically removed from your
trash bin after 7 days.
And while we are on the topic of cleaning up our main notes dashboard, tip number 8
is to pin a note.
This is very helpful if you have a note that is of importance that you want to keep top
of mind.
Or top of Keep, as it were?
So to pin a note, all you have to do is hover over it on the main page here and click on
the little pin icon in the top right.
That icon is in the same spot from an opened note too by the way.
Once you pin a note, it’ll be pinned at the top of your notes dashboard in a pinned
notes section.
You can unpin a note at any time by clicking on that same pin icon.
And before I move on to the last but certainly not least google keep tip, it’s important
to note - get it - that you can access your Google Keep notes across devices, so whatever
changes you make to Google Keep on desktop, those will be available on mobile and vice
versa.
And if you want a full list of the best Google Keep tips for mobile, I’ve linked to that
video in the description below as well.
But on to our last tip of the day: re-arrange notes.
This is another organization hack I use.
All you have to do is click and drag and drop a note to where you want it.
So, you may not want to necessarily pin a particular note, but maybe you want it ahead
of another note, you can drop it into place.
It’s really that easy!
Remember, if you still have questions about Google Keep or want mobile app tips, be sure
to check out the links in the description below.
Until then, keep on keepin’ on.
I’m sorry, I won’t do that again.
So those are my picks for the best Google Keep tips - desktop addition.
And now I want to hear from you.
What is your favorite Google Keep tip?
Let everyone know in the comments below.
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