Nat Taylor — Blog, Product Management & Tinkering

Google Keep Easter Eggs

Published on Jun 08, 2018. Updated on

Google Keep (https://www.google.com/keep/) is a tool for creating, editing and sharing of notes, lists, photos, and audio.

I have a love/hate relationship with it because while I love it’s simplicity (especially for checklists), sometimes I wan’t richer formatting controls.

Much of Google Keep’s functionality is documented.  Most of it has UI or help, but recently I discovered a few Easter Eggs:

• Bold & Italics The keyboard shortcuts cmd + b, b makes text bold and cmd + i, i makes it italic.  This double-tap shortcut is a little finicky.  You usually have to tap b or i twice, but sometimes once.
• Unordered Lists You can start an unordered list with either *, -, or + then when you hit enter the next line will automatically be prepended with a symbol.
• Numbered Lists You can start a list with 1. then when you hit enter the next line will automatically be 2.
• Nested Checklists (This is documented now, but) you can indent (or un-indent) with cmd + [ or cmd + ] respectively.

Ain’t that somethin’!