Have you ever heard of Google Keep? Its a little known google app that lives in your gSuite account and if you have not tried it for few months it may be worth your while to give it another look.

So what is Google Keep? If you are familiar with Evernote or even Apple’s notes app then you probably have some idea. Basically a note taking program that syncs across all your devices.

So what are some of the uses that you can put it to?
  • Save your shortened urls or QR codes
  • Take notes at a parent teacher conference.
  • Capture photos of a conference presentation.
  • Record a voice memo
  • Make a shopping list
  • Share action items with your team.

Google Keep is available in apps and as a chrome application. It works in iOS and Android as well as in your favorite browser. Give it a try and see if you find it useful. I certainly did this week.

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It is helpful to create shared files in Drive so that multiple people can view, comment, and/or edit them. It is even better to create shared folders. The difference between a shared folder versus just a shared file is that you can set the permissions to the folder to be view, comment, or edit and then anything (doc, slide show, sheet, drawing, etc) that you move into that folder will automatically assume those permissions.


To create a folder:Click on the Blue New button and select folder. read more

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by Kristie Hughes

When you start to create folders in Drive, you will notice that they all have a gray color to them. You can change the colors of your folders to help organize your information and make it easier to find the folder you are looking for. 

Step One: Create your Folder – Click on the Blue New button and select Folder.  Then, name your folder. read more

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By Kristie Hughes

Goodbye Research Tool, Hello Explore Tool!

You may have been familiar with the Research tool in Google, where you could search for an image or article, bring it over to your document, and the citation for the image or article would automatically plant itself at the bottom of your page.

Starting on October 13th you will notice that the Research tool is no longer available! It has been replaced with the Explore tool. The Explore tool works similarly to the research tool in that you can research on the web, but it does not add the citations at the bottom of the page. read more

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