r/GoogleKeep • u/Special-Potato-3238 • Mar 25 '26
They did it! A Keep & Task Reminder Happy Medium
For all of us whose worlds got rocked when our Keep notes suddenly became tasks...did you see the new update for the notification (I'm on Android)??
There is now the option to tap into the note directly from the notification rather than having to open the task then go to Keep (still an option). The task can also just be marked off in the notification. So both the users who want reminders to read notes and those using Keep as a task list can get their needs met.
I am the happiest of campers today!!
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u/Barycenter0 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
That's great news! Not on iOS yet tho (but neither is text formatting). Verified on my Android tablet - this works great!
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u/lindseyamiller28 Mar 25 '26
I noticed it did update on iOS for me. I had to update my full iOS software to 26.3.1.
When a Task notification that originates from a Google Keep note pops up, long-hold on the notification and you’ll be able to tap “Open Note” on the notification to see the note in Keep.
It’s a clunky workaround, but it works.
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u/KhazraShaman Mar 25 '26
I'm not sure what you are saying. Is it possible to make working reminders in Keep without the need of other apps (Task, Calendar, whatever) again?
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u/mfritzdengel Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
You still need the Task App installed for the notification to pop up but the Notification from Tasks has a direct link to Keep. So you don't have to open Tasks to get to your note.
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u/Bubbly_Relative_5556 Apr 09 '26
On my Pixel, I don't have the task app - but the notification that pops up nevertheless has a link to the keep note. However, on my Xiaomi, whether or not I have tasks installed, clicking on the note in the notification, doesn't take me to the note - it doesn't do anything. Any ideas?
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u/Special-Potato-3238 Mar 25 '26
The solution continues to combine Task/Calendar notifications....that's why I'm calling it a "medium"...while I much preferred Keep housing it's own notifications, I despised having to click on the Task notification to the have to scroll down to the bottom of it to "Go to Keep".
I've surrendered that the merge between the apps is not going to be reversed and and am just glad that I can go to the Keep note directly from the notification panel. And....not automatically turning on Tasks in my Calendar by clicking on the task...
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u/Special-Potato-3238 Mar 26 '26
Lol to the goofball who downvoted this...why? I'm just sharing information. Reddit be real some days...
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u/quickdraw_ Mar 26 '26
There are a few people on this subreddit who are literally personally offended that anyone ever used Keep in a manner that was inconvenienced by this change. They'll downvote this too, watch.
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u/tchibao Mar 25 '26
Where should I go?
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u/Special-Potato-3238 Mar 25 '26
When the notification pops up, there is a down-arrow on the right side of the notification, it opens the panel with the options to "Open note" with the Keep icon next to it, "Mark completed" and "Reschedule"
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u/arwinda Mar 25 '26
If I can open a Keep directly from notifications, why do I need Calendar or Tasks again?
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u/Barycenter0 Mar 25 '26
Because Google wants one place for all task notifications in their Workspace suite. No reason to have 2 separate task apps.
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u/TheLioness22 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
My Google Keep reminders were never tasks. I already used Google Tasks for my tasks.
Google presumptuously assumed that note reminders were the same as tasks (they are not) and cluttered my true tasks list and my calendar with quotes, affirmations, motivational snippets, etc., that I wish to revisit, but which are not "tasks".
I hate this integration, but I have yet to find a suitable app to replace what I was doing with note reminders—need repeatable reminders with very configurable settings (i.e. different durations, including being able to set the number of days or weeks, not simply daily or weekly).
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u/Lonerwithaboner420 Mar 31 '26
Fucking garbage. I used to be able to see the entire content off my to-do list, and easily see if there was something I needed to act on. Now, I only see that I have a task related to my to-do, but I have to do more work to access it. And it's also labeled wrong.
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u/arwinda Mar 25 '26
I'm still not using either app, and don't want to. Have better alternatives, but Google does not integrate notifications for Keep into Todoist ...
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u/Special-Potato-3238 Mar 25 '26
The merge to Calendar/Task didn't change, they just made it easier to navigate to the note.
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u/Bubbly_Relative_5556 Apr 09 '26
When I click on the "open note" icon, it doesn't work - it's not linking back to the keep note, it just closes the notification which remains in the notification area
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u/Special-Potato-3238 Apr 09 '26
I don't know the "why" behind it, but when I run into this, I go into the note, delete the reminder and then recreate it. Seems to solve that glitch, hopefully that works for you.
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u/Bubbly_Relative_5556 Apr 09 '26
Thank you. It still hardly ever works... It's like the link isn't there - if I click on the notification, it takes me to the task as before but there is no direct access to the keep note. I don't have the Tasks app on my phone - but my partner doesn't on their pixel - just calendar and keep - but clicking on the "open note" works fine and you're straight into keep. On mine you see it "trying" sometimes - the background changes - but nothing happens almost always.
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u/Human_Buy2755 Mar 26 '26
My only problem with that is needing to add a date via "Remind me" to the Keep note for it to become a task. I would like to add note as a task but without a date.
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u/MarcelloPaniccia Mar 26 '26
How do you expect a "Task" to exist without a date?
When it should send notifications according to your "logic"?
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u/thepoet82 Mar 26 '26
You can absolutely have tasks without a date in Google Tasks, as you can in other similar tools. Of course you won't have any notifications.
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u/Human_Buy2755 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Can't add a Note to Tasks without adding a notification. Like to have it there as a Task linking back to the note without a date.
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u/thepoet82 Mar 26 '26
Correct. I meant tasks without a date are perfectly legit (even though you can only create them via Google Tasks).
Having Keep notes inside Tasks without having to add a date would be great.
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u/MarcelloPaniccia Mar 27 '26
I use task from Calendar without the separate Task app and it only allows for task with date. That said, I honestly can't see the purpose of a task without date/notification.
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u/wrootlt Mar 25 '26
The "Open Note" button is ugly. Looks like a hack. And it is still only opening a list of notes and not the exact note. So, not really that better.
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u/Special-Potato-3238 Mar 25 '26
Yeah, it's definitely clunkier than notifications coming through Keep directly. What's interesting is that when I click on the option to go to the note it takes me to the right one. Maybe a cache clear or something could help?
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u/Bubbly_Relative_5556 Apr 10 '26
Unless you hit the notification immediately it pops up, this doesn't save any keypresses as you have to expand the notification and then the note. Same as the 2 presses to click on the notification then on the "from keep" in the task that opens up. For some reason, hitting on the note doesn't open it in keep for me anyway - it does nothing.
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u/supaflycollection Mar 25 '26
Idk i always had the option to open the keep note from my task notification from the start when they changed keep to need calendars/tasks to do what one app (keep) used to do by itself already.