The app can show you a list of items you have chosen most often. That list can then be used to quickly create a shopping list from your favorite products.
Instead of having every possible feature, Google Keep is designed to be very simple and minimalist. It's really easy to quickly create notes and search for old notes. Google Keep enhances the app's organization by letting users color code notes.
You can set reminders that bring certain notes to your attention when you arrive at a specified location or when it’s a specified time or date. Unfortunately you can only do one or the other for each note.
In addition to the ability to color-code notes, they can be labeled and navigated and grouped that way. This allows for easy orginization, to then be found easily at a later date.
Keep allows sharing any item with other contacts and editing them together at the same time. This way a team can work together in real time, no matter their location.
Google Keep lets users take pictures of physical notes and makes the contents searchable within the app. This can be a convenient time saver for those that do not want to type out the necessary info, but rather take a quick snapshot of it.
You can set reminders that bring certain notes to your attention when you arrive at a specified location or when it’s a specified time or date. Unfortunately you can only do one or the other for each note.
Google has a lot of experience with speech-to-text functionality and they did a fantastic job with Keep. This means you can easily record spoken notes that can then be changed to a text based note.
When a mobile device isn't in use, Google Keep can be accessed as a Chrome app or as a website. Basically, no matter the device being used or the OS on it, there is always a way to access the app. There is also no limitation to how many devices this can be done with, freeing up the user to always have access.
No basic formatting like bold, italics. Makes it harder to do things like meeting notes. Keep is intended as a minimal and quick note taking app, but sadly for those that are looking for something more robust, the features are just not there.
Google's equivalent of groups are labels, which can't be shared. By comparison, Trello allows you to share boards with others. Trello also supports grouping through teams. Google Keep has no such concept.
The focus on a minimal interface makes everything fast to use on both web and mobile. This comes in handy for when a note needs to be jotted down quickly as there is little to no load times or faffing about trying to get to a space where the note can finally be recorded.
It's possible to create custom categories for all shopping list items. For example, you can put foods in one category and bathroom supplies in another so that when you're in the produce aisle you're only looking at the produce you need to buy and cleaning supplies aren't getting in the way.
The app offers suggestion on what you might like to buy. The suggestions are organized in categories like "Fruits & Vegetables", "Milk & Cheese", "Recently Used", etc essentially allowing you to browse aisle by aisle without having to go to the store.