Every day we all see, hear or think things that we need to remember. Instead of taking a note on a piece of paper that is then lost, those who have a smartphone can use an application to take a note or mark the note as a reminder so that they can review it whenever they want.
There are several applications of this type, both on iPhone and Android, and among these, the most famous are at least two: Evernote and Onenote among the best apps for taking notes on your mobile phone.
Their peculiarity is that each note is synchronized online so that it can also be found on the internet from any different computer or mobile phone.
Google has just released a new application of this type for Android and for mobile phones in general, which allows you to take notes quickly, save them online and find them whenever you want: Google Keep .
Google Keep is now available as a web application, as an Android application, as an iPhone and iPad app and as an application for Google Chrome Browser
As a tool, it is very reminiscent of another old and no longer existing Google app that was called Notebook and Google Tasks which is instead integrated into Gmail.
In practice, you can write notes with title and descriptive text.
You can also add graphic elements such as icons and colored writings, upload images or photos and you can create a list of things to do or activities.
It is possible to choose between the grid view and the list view of the saved notes.
This from Google is a really powerful and efficient tool.
Google Keep can be integrated with Google Docs.
You can also transcribe the text of the photos, automatically and immediately.
I can also imagine, since we are talking about Google, that Keep will also be integrated into Google Calendar (which in itself is a tool of notes) and which will replace Google Tasks.
Google Keep seems to be, for now, a very simple product and is in no way comparable to established products such as Evernote.
Google Keep lacks many of the features that were available in Google Notebook: labels, filters, comments, rich-text editors, sharing tools.
It looks like a lightweight Google notebook optimized for mobile devices and not so much for normal computers.
It is likely that the product will be improved in the future and that many features will be added (or that it will be closed in the future as happened for Google Notebook or Google Reader which has made Google lose a lot of credibility as a company).
Google has released an official application to use Keep on Android and iPhone to create and manage notes and activities wherever you go.
With the app it is also possible to create voice notes, which are automatically transcribed, and take notes directly from the main screen using the widget that accompanies the application.
Google Keep also has an extension for Chrome to save your favorite web pages .
