{"id":259705,"date":"2026-05-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/i-ignored-google-keep-for-years-these-hidden-features-changed-my-mind\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:00:35","slug":"i-ignored-google-keep-for-years-these-hidden-features-changed-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/i-ignored-google-keep-for-years-these-hidden-features-changed-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"I ignored Google Keep for years \u2014 these hidden features changed my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ignored-google-keep-for-years-hidden-features-changed-my-mind\/\">I ignored Google Keep for years \u2014 these hidden features changed my mind<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ignored-google-keep-for-years-hidden-features-changed-my-mind\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ignored-google-keep-for-years-hidden-features-changed-my-mind\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I thought Google Keep was too basic to be worth trying. I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I misjudged it because I automatically assumed that simple is less powerful. I finally got over that mindset after listening to some of my colleagues at Android Police, who encouraged me to try Google Keep.<\/p>\n<p>I needed that push because it led me to discover some of its genuinely useful hidden features I didn\u2019t know I needed.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the intention behind burying them inside menus, these hidden features changed my mind about Google Keep.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI started using NotebookLM with Google Keep and it&#8217;s been a game-changer<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">My notes are better with NotebookLM and Google Keep<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"optical-character-recognition-ocr-support\">\n                        Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>Optical Character Recognition, popularly known as OCR, is the technology that apps like Google Lens use to identify text and extract it from camera view or photos. The same functionality is also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ignored-google-keep-for-years-hidden-features-changed-my-mind\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ignored Google Keep for years \u2014 these hidden features changed my mind https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ignored-google-keep-for-years-hidden-features-changed-my-mind\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3d-illustration-of-the-google-keep-logo-on-a-colorful-abstract-background-with-floating-note-and-ui-elements.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-259705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259707,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259705\/revisions\/259707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}