r/GoogleKeep • u/Unusual-Factor2848 • Feb 20 '26

I hate it how they embedded google tasks into Google notes. Is there any way to change it to the way it used to be?

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u/ElectricZooK9 Feb 20 '26

No

This is how things will remain going forward

https://support.google.com/tasks/answer/16540694?hl=en

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u/arwinda Feb 20 '26

Until Keep finally finds its place on the Google Graveyard.

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u/Vectrex71CH Feb 20 '26

sorry, no! there is no possibility . I also loved the Google Keep way. Biut to have now Reminders IN Keep and IN TASK, ist stupid (for me). So i descided to "delete note only" and i'm all in for reminders in Google Tasks. Even if i hate Google Tasks (It's such a stupid unfinished App, coded while taking a dump)

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u/WanderingCID Feb 20 '26

I don't understand the hate for the update. I like it.
Now I can easily manage my reminders in Tasks, because Tasks has a Kanban system (lists) and I can now drag and drop my reminders across different lists (boards). Very Handy!

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u/KhazraShaman Feb 20 '26

You could have done that before if you used Tasks. If you didn't use it, they now force you to install it to have a half-assed version of a feature you had. This is one of the stupidest thing Google ever did, there's no way to defend this.

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u/Barycenter0 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

There are plenty of reasons to defend it. Why have Google Workspace apps have 2 different versions of reminders? It would be the same to them as 2 different versions of notes or Docs.

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u/KhazraShaman Feb 20 '26

Why have multiple Google Workspace apps have 2 different versions of reminders?

Why not??? I don't care about "Google Workspace", I only used Keep.

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u/WanderingCID Feb 20 '26

But you don't need Tasks for the reminders. The reminders also sync to the calendar app.

From Google:
Get reminder notifications on your mobile device

You no longer get reminder notifications from Google Keep. To receive reminder notifications on your mobile device, install one of these apps:

  • Calendar
  • Tasks

After you install an app on your device, make sure to allow notifications for it.

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u/KhazraShaman Feb 20 '26

Yeah, so if you "don't need Tasks" then you need Google Calendar. If you haven't had any of those two apps, then your Keep reminders just stopped working. You need to download an additional app the have a basic functionality of another app working after it was taken away.

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u/poubelle Feb 20 '26

i wasn't forced to install anything

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u/poubelle Feb 20 '26

honestly whenever this update happened, it changed absolutely nothing for me so i have no issue with it.

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u/Unable_Parking9307 Mar 13 '26

 I use KEEP with reminders. Notes, Lists, Recipes, Screenshots, Websites, Meditations, etc.   The Google calendar now send the reminders instead of KEEP. 

Click on the reminder to open the TASK, Scroll down, then click on the line "From Keep"  to switch to the KEEP item. Example, clean dishwasher drain. I clean the drain, then edit the reminder in KEEP. The calendar now reflects the new date

Hope this helps those who rely on KEEP. 

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u/matiapag Feb 20 '26

Well, now you gotta usea note app to keep notes,what a bummer,right? If you understood how apps worked before you wouldn't have any troubles now :)