By default, Google Keep arranges notes by last modified attribute. Hold and drag to reorder notesĭespite being a basic feature, a lot of Keep users are still unaware of the drag and drop trick to reorder their notes. The OCR feature works best with business cards and can be really useful if you don’t want to install any additional applications.

The app will display the text in the note itself after processing the image. Head over to an image note and on the top right corner, locate the three dots and tap “Grab Image Text” option. From our testing, we did not find it as accurate as “OneNote”, but it gets the work done. Google Keep also supports OCR functionality that lets you read and store text from an image. This unfortunately also means that you cannot share reminders, a much needed feature. Colors, reminders, archiving still remains with you. Note that your colleague with whom you have shared the note, can only update the note contents.

The process remains same, you share the note with the person and he/she can start editing in the real time as soon as they hit the link. Just like Google’s office suite, you can collaborate with your colleagues on Keep too. First, open the Keep on desktop, Press Ctrl+A to select all notes and then click Copy to Google Doc from the 3-dot more menu. This feature can also be used to backup all your notes. You can export individual or combine multiple notes as a single Doc. The feature makes a new doc file every time you export and doesn’t allow copying to an existing document, which I hope Google brings in future updates. You can then perform complex edits (like inserting a table) from the Google Doc interface.

Google allows you to directly export the Keep note as Google Doc in your Drive account.

Google keep and evernote