TL;DR
- Google Keep diversifies with new note types, including handwriting mode.
- New background options let you add flavor with lines and color.
- Image manipulation will also be significantly upgraded with positioning and cropping tools.
Updated: October 23, 2024 (1:33 a.m. ET): Here’s some additional information about handwriting mode in Google Keep. Thanks to further research by our contributor Assemble Debug, we found that the new handwritten notes are now completely separate from the notes you can currently draw. Drawing notes are not affected by the new handwritten notes feature.
Drawings inserted into old drawing notes or text notes will continue to use the old drawing UI. Also, adding a drawing to a text note will display the old UI. However, this may change in the future.
Handwritten notes display the note title at the top, while older drawing notes display it at the bottom.
Additionally, users will be able to export their new handwritten notes as PDF files. In contrast, handwritten notes can only be shared as images.
Finally, the onboarding dialog for the new Handwritten Notes feature also mentions the ability to “Sketch Text.” We believe this feature will allow users to apply AI to create sketches through text prompts.
Meanwhile, I was able to find handwritten notes in the web version of Google Keep, but so far I can’t do anything about them. These will be displayed as PDFs with print and download options.
Original article: October 22, 2024 (6:52 PM ET): Google Keep is a great way to make sure you never lose track of your good ideas and quickly jot down inspiration. However, there is also room for improvement. Back in early 2024, we were looking forward to having support for taking notes directly from the lock screen of your phone or tablet. With official support for Android 15 and its Lock Screen Notes app, that day has finally arrived, but it’s not happening in a vacuum. Today we’ll take a look at some of the other improvements the Keep team is working on, giving you lots of new options for creating notes.
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We’re looking under the hood of version 5.24.422.02.90 of the Keep app. Although these features don’t appear on my phone yet, I was able to enable some of them as an early preview. Currently, all notes in Keep are created equal, but that seems to be changing.
Keep lets you choose between handwriting modes like old plain text, checkbox lists, image-based notes, and an evolution of the old drawing tools, giving you some new options to get started. . The latter looks best on devices with a stylus, but it should also work just fine if you use your finger. Even in this mode, you can freely combine them by inserting images and blocks of printed text.
Keep should now have some new options to dress up your notes, including a new look for backgrounds. We used to have some fun illustrations to choose from, but these lines and grids you’re looking at now are much simpler in appearance, not to mention give a clean, fresh feel, and perhaps much more. It’s convenient.
Image support within notes is very useful, and Keep works to allow you to move and resize photos within the body of the note. No more getting stuck with just a few at the top. The tools here also support cropping images within the app.
I was also able to see these behaviors using Keep’s tablet interface. At this time, we don’t know when these will be rolled out, but when they are, we expect these tools to be available throughout the app, including when accessed from the lock screen.
