Bring the power of Google Keep to Google Docs with a single click

Not all Google moves cause tectonic shifts. Some of them are subtle but they give you the opportunity to improve your productivity on a higher level.

The integration of Google Keep within the Google Drive suite should have been a no-brainer from the start. But better late than never, we can see why it means more than just an extra browser tab for your notes.

This is how it works:

Open Google Docs and then click on Tools in the menu Select Keep notepad .

If this is the first time you've opened Notepad, you'll be prompted to enable the feature. Click Try it in the notification that appears.

A sidebar is displayed to the right of your document with all of your Keep notes.

That's it. Now go to work!

You can see some of the obvious benefits if you've used Google Keep to capture your thoughts while on mobile. Your rough notes can be fine-tuned in a Google Doc without opening them separately and copying and pasting the information from one to another.

• You can drag and drop your notes from Keep directly into your working documents.
• Your notes in Keep are searchable as before in Docs so you can find the information you need to complete your project.
• You can add a new note in Notepad Keep or send text from your document to a new note (Right click> Save to keep notepad ). A link to the source document will be automatically inserted into the note so you can always link back to it.

The benefits of productivity

Here are the benefits that come directly to you:

• the contextual notes (ie notes can refer to documents) can be an invaluable part of writing a well-researched document with Google Docs.
• Google Keep supports note-taking with powerful search and tagging. Therefore, you can easily manage complex documents using organization features. 4 Google Keep tips and tricks for better notes, lists and to-dos 4 Google Keep tips and tricks for better notes, lists and to-dos. . (For example, mark certain notes for use with a specific document. Color coding can indicate priority levels.)
• The notes can be permanent or of short duration depending on the demands of the task..
• And last but not least, Google Keep is as collaborative as Google Drive itself.

Do you like this “Fusion”?

One of our readers (Pablo) found a way to combine Google Keep, Google Docs, and Gmail to write complex emails. It collects all the information in a note, then transfers it to a Google document from the sidebar and then formats it. Now it's just a matter of copying and pasting this formatted information into a new Gmail. Any layout designed in Google Docs is preserved with a transfer to Gmail.

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What other uses can you think of? How little does this union help your productivity?