Google Keep on the web is finally getting proper text formatting tools

Google Keep has been getting some development love from Google of late, and the latest improvement is one that many users like myself have been eagerly anticipating. Following the Android app’s addition of rich text formatting (RTF) capabilities on mobile in the fall of 2023, Google is finally rolling out those same formatting options to the Keep web application.

This much-needed update introduces a new underlined ‘A’ icon in the bottom-left corner of the text editor window for Keep on the web. Clicking this button reveals a familiar formatting toolbar, offering options for H1 and H2 headers, standard paragraph text (‘Aa’), bolding, italics, underlining, and a tool to remove any applied formatting.

While the arrival of rich text formatting on the web is welcome, it’s also been incredibly frustrating not to have such a basic feature across the entire Google Keep app family until now. When rich text formatting launched on Android back in October 2023, any formatting applied within the mobile app wasn’t reflected when viewing the same note on the web, and it made for a fairly disjointed experience. We’re hopeful that this web addition means we’ll see synced formatting across all platforms soon.

According to Google, the roll-out of rich text formatting for Keep on the web has begun and is slated to reach “all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts” over the next few weeks. I don’t currently see it on any of my accounts just yet, but I’m hoping to very soon.