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Sharing Google Keep Notes with other apps on your phone

Google Keep is one of the easiest ways to collaborate with vanilla notes. You can touch and feed a Gmail ID to share notes with a colleague or family member. But did you know that the Google Keep app on your phone also allows you to share notes with other apps?

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The most obvious way is to send notes from Google Keep to Google Docs.. This transfer is useful when you want to develop ideas quickly:capture an idea in Google Keep, then send it to Google Docs to fill in the details. You can do this on the web, Android, and iOS.

  1. Select the note you want to send.
  2. Click More (The three vertical dots).
  3. Click Copy to Google Doc .

Sharing Google Keep Notes with other apps on your phone

Similarly, in the iOS app, select the note (don't open it) with a tap. Click the Behavior Icon (three horizontal dots). Select Copy to Google Docs from the menu that slides into view from the bottom of the screen.

Share notes with other applications

Often it can be helpful to jot down little reminders for a point that you want to include in an email or mention in a chat conversation. With Google Keep you can send a note to other Google products like Gmail and Hangouts. This only works on mobile apps.

The added benefit is that you can use Google Keep to send something to a non-Google app on your mobile operating system as well.

Sharing Google Keep Notes with other apps on your phone

For example, you can use Google Keep as a "scratch folder," or as a notepad to share your thoughts. Here are some ideas:

  • Prepare your Facebook status message or tweets in Google Keep and send it at the right time.
  • Jot down your thoughts and then send it as a bulk SMS to a group via Messages (iOS) or WhatsApp.
  • Send a Slack message from Keep, add it to a Trello board, or save a note to Evernote.

For example, I often make a note of my semi-formed ideas in Maintain so that I can distribute them to the respective applications when they have evolved into something complete. Notes should be easy and quick. Quick access to Google Keep helps capture those brain sparks.

Do you use Google Keep to share notes with your own Google apps or other non-Google products on your phone? Not all of them work, but let us know if you find any that work for you.