Google Keep: Top 11 Tips for Insane Digital Organization!

About this video

Jeff Su shares 11 lesser-known Google Keep tips for capture and organization. Capture faster with Ctrl/Cmd+T then note.new or keep.new, keep Keep as a pinned tab and jump to it with Ctrl/Cmd+4 then press C to compose, and add a Chrome search-engine shortcut named ‘keep’ to search Keep from the address bar. In Settings he disables Display Rich Link Previews to keep the interface tidy and notes that Keep’s reminder default times also control Gmail’s snooze defaults. Formatting is intentionally minimal — numbered lists, bullets with asterisk-space, and hyphens — and he marks headers with double equal signs. He treats the Keep homepage as an inbox: process notes in review sessions, press E to archive, and use a ‘reference’ label instead of pinning. Other tips include creating a Keep note directly from a Google Calendar event so the note stays linked to that invitation, using the Keep Chrome extension with a ‘clipped’ label for saved web pages, and filtering notes by color via specific URLs saved as bookmarks. For checklists he uses L to create one, Ctrl/Cmd + ] / [ to indent/unindent, and Uncheck All Items to reset recurring lists. On mobile he uses Grab Image Text to extract text from photos of handwritten notes, business cards, or email signatures (searchable via OCR even after archiving), records audio notes that include both the audio file and a transcript, and as a bonus installs Keep as a standalone app.

Key takeaways

Capture with note.new / keep.new, a pinned tab (Ctrl/Cmd+4, then C), or a custom Chrome ‘keep’ search shortcut from the address bar.
Disable Rich Link Previews for a tidier view, and remember Keep reminder defaults also set Gmail snooze times.
Run Keep as an inbox: archive processed notes with E and tag reference material with a ‘reference’ label instead of pinning everything.
Link notes to Calendar events for meeting prep, save web pages via the Keep extension under a ‘clipped’ label, and bookmark color-filter URLs to view notes by color.
Use checklist indent shortcuts and Uncheck All to reset recurring lists; on mobile use Grab Image Text for OCR and audio notes that auto-generate a transcript.

Episode details: published November 26, 2024 · 7:55 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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