Everything About Google Keep Notes: For Notetaking Lovers

If you love taking notes, tracking time, and planning ahead, read this.
Google Keep Notes is not the only note-taking app on the planet, but it is a pretty good one.

How to Create a Note

When you enter Google Keep, there should be a list of little icons to the left of your screen and the first one should have a lightbulb symbol. This is your Google Keep homepage. The homepage is where all your notes will be.
There should be a thin bar at the top of your screen that says ‘Take a Note’. Click on that and it should lead you into a fresh note.
Start to jot down content ideas, items on your grocery list, research topics you want to look up soon, or any other things you want to write down.

How to Make Remind-me Notes

If I haven’t mentioned it already, there’s a way to set reminders on your notes. To state it more clearly, I’m going to toss out a few examples.
Say you want to create a note about articles you want to write on Medium. Create a note about articles you want to write.
Then, hover over the note with your mouse. There should be a little bell icon at the bottom of your note.
Click on that to pick a date and time for when Google Keep should remind you about your articles. You can also choose whether this reminder repeats or only happens once.

How to Make Labels

Do you like organization? I do. I like things neat and tidy, whether it’s on a notetaking app or my bookshelf.
Anyways, Google Keep allows you to make labels that organize your notes into different topics.
E.g., say you were making lists of adjectives, verbs, nouns, and rhyming words. You could make a label called ‘Word Lists’ and group all your lists into that label.
After you create that label, go to your Google Keep homepage and create a note.
Then, click on the verticle line of dots at the bottom of your note. It should give you a bunch of options about what to do with that note. Click on ‘Label’. This should list all the labels you’ve created. Click on the label want to add that note to, and you should be all set.

Archiving Notes

Now let’s talk about archiving notes.
You probably want to clear your homepage once in a while if you’re like me. The way to do this is to archive notes. They’ll be in the section called ‘Archived Notes’, but they won’t show up on your homepage.
You can always see your archived notes even though they're not on your Google Keep homepage.
Let your mouse hover over your note. There should be a little archive symbol. Once you click on that, your note will be officially archived.

How to Delete Notes

I really don’t have to go in-depth about this, but I just want to make sure this article lives up to its title: Everything About Google Keep Notes: For Notetaking Lovers.
So, hover over your note again. Don’t skip ahead thinking you can just find a trash symbol, because there is no trash symbol.
You have to click on the verticle line of dots. The first option should be ‘Delete Note’. As you know, click on that and it will delete your note.
To pay a visit to your deleted notes, click on the trash symbol on the bar on the side of your screen. There, you can see your deleted notes. But all deleted notes will be permanently deleted if you don’t restore them in seven days.
And to restore a note, you just go to your deleted notes and click on the trash symbol with the arrow on it.
If you don’t want to wait seven days for your note to be permanently deleted, just click on the trash symbol and that will delete it forever.

Note Settings

There is a list of settings if you hover over your note.
You can change the color of your note, email your note to somebody so that they can work on it with you, or add an image to your note.
If you click on the three dots, you can add a drawing to your note, make a copy of it, hide checkboxes if you added them, or copy the note to Google Docs, which I’ll talk about later.

Searching for Notes

If you want to search for a note and not have to peck around for it, simply press ‘Search’ at the top of your screen. This should allow you to search by title, the owners of the note, or the color of it.
That’s really all I have to say about searching for notes.

If you got something out of this article, great. Even if it was just the tiniest tidbit of information.

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