
The fastest choice is Audio - just select and talk, and your words will be captured and even typed out in searchable text. If you've got an iPhone 6s or later, use 3D Touch: Press hard on the icon and choose from "New Audio Note," "New Photo Note," "New List" or "New Note." IPhone users: Place the Keep icon as one of your four "Dock" icons for quickest access. The widget shows four buttons: "Note," "List," "Photo" and "Audio." One tap and you're off to the races. Use a widget on the Today screen for iOS or home screen on Android for one-tap capture. When you get an idea or encounter information in the world that you want to remember forever, Keep captures quickly. Here are the amazing things you can do right now with Google Keep.

So if you plan to use Google Assistant, now is the time to start populating Keep with all your personal facts, information and ideas.īesides, I think Keep is already the best note-taking app out there. It will whisper reminders in your ear and provide you with any information in Keep whenever you ask for it. When Assistant can use Keep to remember things for you, it will feel like part of your mind.

In the same way Assistant will scan your email, calendar and other data-packed Google apps, Assistant will also scan Keep and make all the information in Keep available to you through a conversation or chat. The most transformational of these integrations will be into the Google Assistant, Google's next-generation A.I. Meanwhile, Google will probably integrate Keep deeper into a growing range of Google products.

Google will almost certainly unveil an API at some point, enabling third-party companies to create apps and services that read or write notes. I'm here to tell you that since Keep launched more than three and a half years ago, Google has quietly added so many new features (many leveraging Google's powerful A.I.) that it's a completely different product now. Some people still think Keep is just a dumb sticky-note app. (You'll see these advantages in the tips below.) Keep's integration with other apps, search and artificial intelligence (A.I.) are all superior to the competition.

Keep is best in class for three unsurprising reasons, given that it's Google we're talking about here.
