How to make the most of Google Keep
As part of my job as a tech writer, and as part of my ongoing efforts to get organized at some point, I've tested a whole pile of note-taking apps through the years: the simple, the sophisticated, the quirky, the AI-powered, and on it goes. It's a popular app category, and there's no shortage of options.
Amid all these different choices, one of the apps that I find myself regularly coming back to is Google Keep. It's fast and easy to get around, it works on just about any device, and once you dig a little deeper into its colorful sticky note interface, there are plenty of useful features to take advantage of.
Whether you're a current Google Keep user looking to do more with the app or you're wondering whether Google Keep has enough to tempt you away from whatever note-taking system you're using at the moment, these are some of its most appealing features.
Change the look
Right from the start, the colorful Post-it note look of Google Keep gives you a neat way of arranging your notes: yellow for to-dos and blue for shopping lists, for example, or whatever suits you.
There are 11 different pastel colors to pick from besides the default white, and on top of that, you've got nine …