Every so often, Google does something that makes yous nod and enquire, "Why didn't they think of this sooner?" Such is the case with i of their latest additions to Google Docs. Earlier this year, the nifty Google decided it would be a good idea to integrate Proceed into Docs. If y'all're a power-user for both tools, similar myself, y'all probably did a small-scale amount of rejoicing when yous first saw the feature bachelor. If you have yet to see it, let me take a moment to introduce you.

The addition of Continue to Docs ways a couple of things. First, Google Continue has officially been labeled as part of the Google Suite of tools. Second, information technology is now really easy to keep notes for a document you are working on. Along with the Explore feature, Google Docs has become a seriously impressive tool for business, education, and just about any other purpose that requires notation keeping as yous write.

The improver of Google Keep only works in Google Docs, and then if you lot were hoping this would cantankerous over to Sheets, you're out of luck. With that said, let's have a look.

Enabling the characteristic

The first thing you must do is enable the feature. Open up Google Docs and then click the "Tools" menu. You should then meet an entry for "Keep notepad" (Effigy A).

Figure A

Click on that entry and, if this is your outset fourth dimension opening the Keep notepad, you lot volition be prompted to enable the characteristic (Effigy B).

Effigy B

Click on "Effort IT" and the Keep notepad will open in your document (Figure C).

Figure C

Benefits of using Keep over comments

Y'all might be asking yourself, "Why carp calculation another characteristic, when in that location's already a comment system?" There are actually a number of reasons why using Continue notepad would exist a better choice. First off, your notes volition automatically sync with Google Keep on all of your devices. This means anytime you call back of something to be added, you don't have to worry about opening the dr. first; you can simply open upward Google Continue and add your notes. Another benefit tin be found when working with larger documents. Documents that reach 60K words and beyond tend to go very bogged down when the comments feature is used. With Proceed notes, y'all can open and close those notes as needed, and then there's no take a chance the document will go a claiming to use. Keep notepad also allows for easy addition of notes into a certificate, which is incredibly handy. To do this, just click on the menu button (three vertical dots) associated with the note y'all want to add together and then click "Add to document" (Figure D).

Effigy D

Finally, the ability to search your notes makes it very piece of cake to reference multiple notes in Keep, without having to whorl through an entire list. It should exist noted that the search feature does integrate with Keep tags. Then you could tag sure notes to be used with a specific certificate to make them hands searchable within Docs.

Caveats? What caveats?

Honestly, I'm having a actually hard fourth dimension coming up with a caveat to this new feature. It works so well, and integrates and so seamlessly into Docs to make your work significantly easier. There's really not a single negative to be establish — unless maybe you're not a fan of Go on in the beginning identify.

A feature you lot will keep

Trust me on this one; if y'all are a Docs power-user, you will definitely enjoy the integration of Keep and Docs. This might well be the best addition to Docs I've seen to date.