

This is a great way to organize a big task list that encompasses your whole life, but what if you’re using a separate task list for work? Blue for neither personal nor professional.Productivity expert Mike Vardy explains how he uses color to divide his task list up in this post. While it looks like a simple app, it’s got a lot of power under the hood, especially if you know how to use it properly. Now, while I’m on the topic, I’ll take the chance to explain a few Google Keep tricks you can use to make your experience even better.

So, if you’re the sort of person who likes to process everything - their emails and their to-do list - in one place, this will be perfect for you. SourceĪnd it will open up and show your Keep reminders and cards. To access Keep from within Gmail, you just have to click the Keep icon located on the right of the page (as shown in the image below). You can either open the reminders in Keep and edit/archive them, or you can just check off the reminder from inside Gmail and click ‘Done’. Since Keep and Gmail are both Google products, they integrate seamlessly without any setup. And when you do, it signals to Gmail to put them into my ‘Reminders’ category. You also have the ability to add due dates to your cards. When you’ve created a few reminders, it’ll start to look something like this: That’s about it for the basics, but as you’re about to see, there’s much more to it. That’s the basic workflow for creating a new reminder that will end up in your Inbox.

