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Quick Guide to Google Keep for Android

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Search for Google Keep from the Play Store Click Install Click Keep Shopping

Google Keep is a useful app that lets you keep different kinds of notes. It is similar to the very popular Evernote app, except Keep is simpler and

integrates with Google Drive.

How to Install Google Keep

Installation is very simple.

1. Open Google Play from your Android phone

2. Search for Keep

3. On the search results, open the one whose author is Google

4. Click Install

How to Setup Google Keep

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Upon first execution, Keep will prompt for which account to associate with it. Keep saves everything on Google Drive, so the account you pick is

where all content will be saved.

Getting Acquainted with Keep’s User Interface

Keep’s UI has two parts:

1. Toolbar on top

2. the Notes area where all the notes are presented

The format of notes look like Google Now’s Card interface.

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Google Keep UI

Creating a New Note

To create a new note, simply pick the type of note from the toolbar.

From left to right, the four note types are as follows:

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1. Freeform Text – Simple text notes

2. Checklist – Checklist of items

3. Voice Recording – Voice that gets translated to text with the ability to play the recording

4. Picture – Launches the camera app and embeds it to the note

You can mix and match the notes types as follows:

Freeform Text + Picture

Checklist + Picture

Voice Recording + Freeform Text + Picture

Picture + Freeform Text

In all types, you can put in a title. For voice recordings, Keep runs it through voice dictation and transforms what you say into text, so it ends up

being a Freeform Text type of note.

Let’s now go through each note type…

Freeform Text

The toolbar has four parts.

1. The yellow note icon brings you back to the home screen

2. The palette icon lets you change the background color of the note

3. The camera icon opens the camera app and lets you embed one or more pictures

4. The context menu opens a menu containing more items

The first line contains the Title. All note types have a title. The next line is where the note’s body begins.

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Google Keep: Freeform Text Note

To change the background, click on the palette icon, and pick a color

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Google Keep: Note color options

This is how a colored note looks like:

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Google Keep: Colored Freeform Text

To add a picture to a freeform note, click on the camera icon. The camera app will load, you take the picture, and if it’s good you click on the check

icon. The note will then load, with the picture(s) on top. You can add more pictures as needed.

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Google Keep: Colored Freeform Text with Picture

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Google Keep: Note viewed from the home screen

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Google Keep UI Google Keep: Freeform Text Note Google Keep: Note color options

Google Keep: Colored Freeform Text Google Keep: Colored Freeform Text with Picture Google Keep: Note viewed from the home screen

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Checklist

If you know how to do freeform notes, checklists are no different and operate the same way.

To create a checklist:

1. From the home screen, click on the check icon

2. Enter a title (Grocery List)

3. Enter the items on your checklist

You can add as many list items as needed.

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Google Keep: Checklist Note

To check off a completed list item:

1. From the home screen, click on the checklist

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2. Click on the checkbox next to the completed items

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Google Keep UI Google Keep: Checklist Note Google Keep: Colored Checklist Note

Google Keep: Checklist Note with some completed items

To add a picture to a checklist:

1. Click on the camera icon

2. Take the picture

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Google Keep: Home screen with Freeform and

Checklist notes

Google Keep: Checklist Note with some

completed items

Voice Recording

The voice recording note is unique in that it assumes a person is dictating the note. When you’re done dictating the note, it runs through speech-

to-text conversion.

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Google Keep: Voice Dictation interface

Similar to the other note types, you can change the background color and add pictures. To reduce losses due to dictation errors, it also lets you

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Google Keep: Voice Dictation interface Google Keep: After Dictating a Note Verbally Google Keep UI

Google Keep: Home Screen with freeform,

checklist, and voice dictation notes

Google Keep: Voice Dictation Note with Picture Google Keep: Multiple pictures uploaded to a

note

play back the recorded audio.

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Google Keep: Home screen with checklist,

freeform, and voice dictation notes with a picture

Picture

This is the same as a freeform note with a picture, except you start by taking a picture.

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Google Keep: Colored Freeform Text with Picture

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Sharing

Sharing notes in Google Keep is exactly the same as sharing other things in Android.

1. Click on the context menu on the top-right corner of the Google Keep screen

2. Click Share

3. Click on the app you want to share the note with

4. On the chosen app, click Share

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Google Keep: Sharing menu Google Keep: Pick an App to use for sharing Google Keep: Note shared in Google+

Google Keep: Sharing menu

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Accessing your Google Keep notes outside of Android

Because Google Keep integrates with Google Drive, you can access your notes from a web browser by going to this special URL:

http://drive.google.com/keep

The word special is underlined above because you cannot see it by going to the regular Google Drive URL. Google obviously doesn’t want to

expose the actual data structure by making it visible as a file. That’s fine. The special url instead displays the notes in a way that’s rendered

similarly to how it appears on the Android app.

interestingly, as long as you set Google Keep to Sync, changes made to a note from the URL results in changes being reflected on the Android app.

Sync is turned on by default. But you can control it by going to the home screen, clicking on the context menu, then click on Settings.

If you want to be amused by how quickly it syncs, mark a checklist item as checked on the web, then watch it change on the Android app.

Conclusion

The Google Accounts ecosystem is thriving across all computing platforms like Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS. With Google Keep, it has the

opportunity to thrive even more.

We hope they release one for iOS, Chrome OS, Windows, and Mac OS X, in that sequence.

Great job, Google!

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