Google Keep for Android is getting some overdue upgrades

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A screenshot of Google Keep on an Android phone.
Google Keep is a simple, solid note-taking app — hopefully Google doesn’t kill it. | Image: Google

Good news for Android-toting Google Keep users: you’re finally getting the text formatting options the app has so desperately needed for years. Google announced this week that the ability to bold, italicize, and otherwise transform text in your notes is rolling out now, and you should start to see it in the app soon. (I don’t have it yet, but Mishaal Rahman and a few others actually spotted the feature ahead of its official launch, so it seems to be coming fast.)

The new Keep features are more in the “should have been here all along” category than they are shiny new things, but they’re still a welcome addition to the app. And actually, Google has been paying an unusual amount of attention to Keep recently: users got a new homescreen...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23837296/google-keep-app-formatting-version-history

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