Organize Your Digital Life with 

Google Keep

@LisaBerghoff/@MrKimDHS

Everyone's got their own method of keeping track of the myriad decisions, reminders, and details that are a critical component of our functioning lives. Meticulously kept notebooks, planners, or colorful sticky notes are tried and true methods that have kept us on track for years. Why fix it if it ain't broke? Here's a free organizational tool that I think is worth trying out. Google Keep is a simple, yet powerful way to digitize some of our organization needs.  It is essentially digital sticky notes and reminders, but are packaged and connected with the power of the Google product family. Here are some cool things you can do with Keep:

More than just a sticky note

Benefits of Sticky Notes on Keep:

• Permanence: you can't lose them. Even if you lose your phone or your laptop, your digital sticky notes are attached to your Google Account
• Variety of Note Types: You can create text notes, lists, images, and audio recordings. You can even take pictures of text that can be translated via Optical Character 

                Image Notes                                                                To-Do Lists

• Collaboration: share a particular note with others and collaborate in real-time. 

• Reminders: we can all use some help remembering important (or not important) events or tasks we need to do. You can download the Google Keep phone app for scheduled reminders.

• Inception: Organize your organization tool with Labels: You can create labels or categories for your sticky notes by either color coding them, or by attaching them to labels. Similarly to Gmail, you can, for example, create a "Wrestling" label and all sticky notes relating to Wrestling can be filtered. 

Do you have a preferred tool for organization? Tips or tricks for Google Keep? Comment below!