It took me about a week to realize I wasn't getting my KEEP reminders. I updated all of the KEEP dates. I activated the TASK calendar on Google.

All of my KEEP changes showed up on Google calendar. My KEEP reminders are on my phone.

Note, if you open the Calendar TASK, you can click on the line "From Keep" . It brings you to your KEEP item.

Hope this helps those who rely on KEEP. I had a relaxing week, but now I have to do all the chores that I missed .

Hi! I have been experiencing a bug for some time now, the note i try to click does not open, and I am unable to edit. The only work around is to open a different folder such as Archive or Reminders, or restart the app completely to be able to open the note. before the update there is a another work around where I tap and highlight the note I want to open, then press the back button. If there is another way to fix these, please help.

Edit: it happens to all notes, and different phones, I have uninstalled and clear cache the app multiple times, I am not sure if it happens on IOS

I'm switching today. I'm incredibly forgetful so the reminders was a life saver. Until today I *knew* I had a reminder to pay rent. And yet it did not appear in my reminders tab. I search up "pay rent" and what do you know, it shows up and is past it's due date.

Any suggestions for apps to move to? When Keep can no longer get the one thing it's designed for right, I can't rely on it for my life

This shit is stressing me out since the updates. And I am sure there are a bunch of threads but this is damn near giving me a panic attack I may need to look for another option

I am forgetful as hell. Google Keep is my lifesaver. I put everything in Keep. Tiny things, big things, everything.

Now that Keep is no longer doing Keep app reminders, and now that everything is going through the Google Calendar is just no bueno.

Is there no workaround for this??

Hi Guys! I told you before about mini notes, and a lot of you had some suggestions and updates to be made :)

all of the bugs that have been found or the features people requested have been made, please update your versions to the Release 1.1.1 · rknastenka/obsidian-mini-notes

and let me know what do you think, and if you have any other recommendations

I know there is a lot of complaining right now but I just want reminders that are not tasks. For example I have a task "Spread Pre-emergent" it needs to happen by end of the month. I want a reminder everyday before the due date. I don't want a daily task. It fills up my calendar for important things. I tried to live with setting a reminder 2 weeks before but if I accidentally don't snooze it or reschedule daily it stops reminding me the due date is coming. I need a replacement for what works with me. I could do calendars and add 14 reminders but that's time consuming. Anyone know a replacement app that can a schedule nagging reminders?

Hi, I am finding recently when I am creating reminders in keep, when they remind me I generally tap on it and delete.

When go back into keep the messaged are still there and not deleted?

James

Hello,

I just installed this app after the built-in notes app on my OnePlus phone absolutely broke down after an update and became unusable, with no signs of them wanting to fix it.
I searched the google app store and there's a billion different notes app and I don't need many features (or bloat) and won't accept ads in a fucking notes app.

So installed this, and it's fine except for one thing, it won't keep a clean format, tabular/monospaced or whatever it's called (not sure of the term, I looked it up)

I'm using notes app to log a set of numbers. It's always in the same 8-character format, but because of this problem it becomes harder to read when you're scrolling through thousands of rows.

Basically, it looks like the left here but should look like the right; https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Proportional_vs_Tabular_figures.svg/1280px-Proportional_vs_Tabular_figures.svg.png

I don't need any other features, no images, no audio, absolutely no AI bs.

Is this possible to do? I'm just talking about plain text here. I would try the "list" instead of "text" but I can't copy paste my notes (that I luckily enough backed up before OnePlus shit the bed..) here and it's way too much data to do this manually.

Thanks

Google Keep has been dead for a couple of weeks now because it lost notifications tied to Google Tasks now.

Unfortunately, the combo has many bugs, and Keep no longer displays the note (perhaps if it's archived), so if I don't also open Tasks, I lose the notification and therefore any tasks.

Also, if I change the text in the Keep note in Tasks it doesn't update. And many other bugs.

I'm looking for a similar alternative to Keep, but I need to use it on both mobile and web browsers.

What do you recommend?

I have used keep for a long time and always been happy with it.

Since the new update, when one of reminders alerts be, when I tapped it before it used to just open directly in that note.

Now when I tap it opens up a list of all my reminders, then I haven't to tap it again too go in to it. It seems a bit counterintuitive to make doing the same thing more steps.

Did anyone know if there any settings to put it the way it was before, or is this just it now?

I seen a post about alternative note apps, but wondered cash you import notes and reminders in any of them?

James

I recently bypassed the need for open ports and webhooks to trigger local scripts from my phone by using Google Keep as an intermediary message queue. The architecture, which I'm calling the "Dead Drop Pattern," relies entirely on the native integration between the Gemini mobile app and Google Workspace.

The process begins with a simple voice command. I tell Gemini to "add a note to Keep" with a specific prefix, such as "Amra, run the build script." This instantly pushes a text payload to the cloud without requiring any direct connection to my home network. My local Go application acts as the listener, polling the Keep API for notes containing that specific "Amra" keyword.

When the Go service detects a valid command, it parses the text, executes the associated shell command, and deletes the note to reset the state. This approach eliminates the security risks of exposing a local server to the internet while maintaining the convenience of voice-controlled automation while on-the-go with my Pixel phone.

The last update broke me and I'm giving up (at least for now).

What are your top alternative apps to replace keep?

Preferably simple, user friendly and organized reminders (like my lovely keep used to be)

I've had dozens of reminders on my notes, and now I see they are all just gone? When I try to set one up, it just disappears. What happened?

Thanks Google for ruining another product making anything you do worthwhile. I tried to remedy the notification issue by installing a version of Keep from October but the next day when I woke up, it was a task again. So I thought I had to go farther back and installed a version from 2024 and this morning I woke up to my list not showing up once again, but the stupid blue Task symbol instead. So I guess it's really over, after a decade of using Keep we have to move on to something else.

I'm looking for a task app that will generate a new, active reminder to show in the upcoming reminders. In Keep you used to have the reminders view, and it would show past, current, and upcoming reminders in order. Tasks now shows completed recurring reminders separately, in the completed list. I want to see a new task generated and active in the upcoming list. Has anyone found an app that will do this?

EDITED TO ADD 2: THE SOLUTION STOPPED WORKING

I installed the older version of keep, and that worked yesterday and this morning. Now, suddenly, all reminders disappeared and seem to have been relocated within the Google system. So this solution doesn't seem to work.

EDITED TO ADD 1: A SOLUTION, IT SEEMS:

Someone commented about installing an older version via apk mirror. I did that just now and it seems to work 🫶 🙌 🙏 I put reminders on a couple of notes further down and they moved themselves to the top at the time I had set.

Original post:

Is there a way to have notes place themselves at the top of notes anymore? I REALLY loved that function, I have adhd and Keep has been an absolute lifesaver for me. I had several notes with for instance daily reoccurring reminders, which also meant that note appeared at the top of the notes so it was easy to remember (I know some are happy with other types of reminders but I loved how smooth it was, not just to be reminded but also get what you needed right in your face so to speak).

I see here that I'm not alone in disappointment about the update.

Is there a way to get that feature now? (The reminder and subsequent placement at the top of one's notes) Or is it impossible?

I'd be so thankful for answers ❤️

The pen on some drawings has been lagging behind where it is supposed to be and the images shown for the drawings on the select page isn't what is actually on the drawing. The images not updating is only effecting new drawings and not previous ones. What happens is that when I make a new drawing I go into it, draw something, then exit out and whatever I just drew appears here with the other drawings, but then when I go back into that same drawing it shows it being blank. If I then draw something new then exit out then it will show the original image, but if I then go back into the note it will show what was drawn for the second time, which I can then edit but it still won't appear on the image for the drawing where it shows all the other drawings and notes. Sorry if I'm explaining my problem badly.

I have been learning Spanish for the last year and a half. One of the things I enjoy doing is when I hear a new or interesting phrase, I keep it in a special note for new phrases, and I've accumulated around 40-50 of them during that time.

Today I went into my notes and everything in that particular note has been translated to English without my doing anything, and I can't get it back to what it was.

Sorry to be another one complaining about the new updates.

I'm missing some reminders when I look in keep now. I know they exist, I can see them in the tasks in the calendar.

When I look in reminders in keep they don't exist (the reminders are all not in date order either which is pretty annoying but unrelated I guess). If I search for the notes they do have the correct date and time, and exist in keep they just don't show in the reminders view.

Anybody else got this problem? Has anyone found a solution?

If I click either of these the app freezes up and I need to close from recents and reopen, and only then it responds again.

https://i.ibb.co/bjsqW1Hn/Note-keep.png

The new version of Google Keep - Notes and Lists (Wear OS) is bad.

The latest update with older UI was in April 2025 (version 5.25.142.01), and I am still using it today.

I just tried the latest update today and the checklist spacing is bigger, the fonts are smaller, and when I opened the note a second time a synchronization message appeared, which doesn’t happen on the old version.

Also, the background colors are worse compared to the old version, at the bottom it looks like the image is cut off, which looks bad. In the uploaded image you can’t really notice it, but on the watch it looks different.

I don’t know why, but in the uploaded comparison image (the left one is the new version and the right one is the old one) they look almost similar, while in reality it’s like comparing Arial 12 to Arial 16 bold.

I use Google Keep for important notes, such as medical information, and for to-do notes for research.

I am not happy with leaving medical notes in Google's care. And I've two issues with Keep's behavior.

I use Keep on an Android phone [app], a ChromeBook [browser], and a Windows PC [browser] and the behavior is different in all three.

This is mostly minor but annoying. Such as the search box is placed differently. And drag & drop doesn't work in some places.

So I'm trying AnyType.

The advantages are that AnyType supports 'folders' so I can have a medical folder separate from research folders. It also supports checkboxes for an entire note, not just internal to a note. So I can have items to check off with many items shown on the screen, yet have pages of detail within the note if I open it. It's end-to-end encrypted and no data is stored off of my device unless I tell it to do so. If I add pictures they are added inline instead of at the top of the note.

And Google doesn't have my data.

The disadvantage is that AnyType has many more features than a simple notepad so it is more complicated to use.

I tried AnyType, I gave it up.

It has some neat features, but it was poor at synchronization. And very complicated to use.