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What is Google Keep?
What is Google Keep?
Capture ideas with your voice, add images to notes, check tasks off your to-do list, and much more. With Google Keep, you can create, share, and collaborate with people on notes and lists. Keep synchronizes across all your devices, so your notes and lists go with you, wherever you are. (x)
How does it work?
How does it work?
As a Google app, Keep fits in seamlessly with the rest of the Google ecosystem. The interface is minimal and intuitive, so you can start taking and organizing notes with very little learning curve.
I think of keep as my personal assistant! With minimal effort, you can;
create checklists
schedule reminders
save links/images for later reference
Create
Create
Look around your desk; are there lists and post-it notes everywhere? A good place to start is by entering the notes and lists you already have!
Customize
Customize
An easy way to start organizing your notes is by creating some of the same labels you already have in your email (e.g. ACGME, Conferences, Evals, etc.)
Once you have some notes entered in Keep, think about how to make them work for you!
If it's an important note, you can "pin" it the note so you don't lose track of it.
If it's information that you want to reference later, label it and archive it. You can find it later either by using the search field, or clicking the label on the left side of the screen.
Will you need to take action on the note a day, month, or year from now? Click the bell icon on the note to "Remind Me." Reminders will show up on your computer as long as the Keep browser is open, and on your phone, if the mobile app is downloaded.
Checklists
Checklists
I. love. lists. Prior to Keep, I tried using other note-taking apps like Evernote, but I really prefer the simple functionality of Keep.
Once you've checked everything off your list, you can select "uncheck all items" and you're ready to go the next time you need that checklist.
I create checklists for everything; events (conferences, recruitment, In Training Exam, etc.), daily and long-term to-do lists, resident/faculty attendance at events.
Schedule Reminders
Schedule Reminders
Another great feature of Keep is the ability to schedule reminders. Notes with reminders also show up in your "Reminders" Google Calendar (pictured left).
If you install the Keep mobile app, you can also set reminders by location, which is great if you need to remember to do something when you arrive at work (or home)!
Save it For Later
Save it For Later
As Program Coordinators, many of us are tasked with reading every email, attending every webinar, and collecting every bit of useful information to share with our Program Directors, Faculty and Residents.
I use Keep to save and centralize all of this material; relevant slides from webinars, important quotes from emails and articles, and links to websites I want to refer back to.
Over time, Keep has become my own personal "reference library," and it helps me use more of the information I take in on a daily basis!
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