Google Keep to Onenote or Evernote on Mac or alternative to Google Keep

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Posted by jamesofford
Jan 13, 2017 at 03:24 PM

Good morning fellow outliner folk:

I have been an enthusiastic user of Google Keep for some time now. I have it on my two tablets(4th generation iPad and Android)on my phone(also Android)and I have Notes for Google Keep on my mac. They all sync together so when a note gets entered on any of them it is accessible on all of them. Very convenient and helpful. One of the things that I find very useful is the ease with which you can open Keep and enter information. I also have my browsers set up so that I can export a page and save it in Keep. Finally, since I have it on my phone, I can easily enter notes wherever I am

However, there are a couple of problems. First, there is no easy way to organize notes in Keep itself. You can pin notes so they are always on top, and you can archive notes so that they don’t clutter up your window. However, I would like to be able to organize my notes so that I can more easily find them. As of now there is not a way to do that in Keep. So I am searching for a solution.

I’d like to have my older notes available on all of my devices, but perhaps move them out of Keep and into something like Onenote. I’ve found that I can export my notes as HTML files, and then import those into Onenote, but that is not the best solution. Also, you then need to go back into Keep and go through the notes that you have and archive or delete them.

Is there a good program to use to move the notes from Keep to Onenote so that I can use Onenote as the repository of my notes? If there is not program on the mac that will allow you to do that, is there a convenient way to do it in Keep?

Alternatively, is there another piece of software with Keeps functionality that will allow me to easily grab info and put it into a note, and then allow me to organize things into something like folders so that I can save older notes and keep them out of the way? For a Keep replacement it has to be available on the Mac, Android, and iOS.

Many thanks.

Jim

Posted by Gorski
Jan 13, 2017 at 11:12 PM

> Alternatively, is there another piece of software with Keeps functionality that will allow me to easily grab info and put it into a note, and then allow me to organize things into something like folders so that I can save older notes and keep them out of the way?

I’m curious, why don’t you use labels in Keep? They’re the equivalent of folders.

Posted by Larry Kollar
Jan 14, 2017 at 03:55 AM

+1 on the labels suggestion.

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