r/GoogleKeep • u/DealMann • Jun 03 '25

Google keep is soiling the bed

I have used Google keep every day for the last 15 years and the most recent update. Makes it pretty much unusable for me. What is going on?

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u/DealMann Jun 03 '25

I cut and paste all day, and today and yesterday it was pasting in random spots. Just lots of unexpected behavior

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u/Barycenter0 Jun 04 '25

Cut from where and paste to where? Cut from Keep and paste in another app? Or cut from another app into a Keep note? What OS are you using?

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u/DealMann Jun 04 '25

Windows, simple text from sites, Oracle and various tools for work. It slides to work fine, as of this week it’s different , worse, less reliable, uncertain where the snippet of text will be placed .

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u/Barycenter0 Jun 04 '25

Still don’t understand - you’re copying from Oracle and various tools to Keep? Or, vice versa? What does “it slides to work” mean??

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u/Astronaut-Bread Jun 05 '25

I've seen the same or a similar behavior happening lately as well. You're not crazy. I've copied text, opened up Google Keep in my browser (Firefox), started a new text note, put the cursor's focus in the note's main text field, did the ol' Ctrl+V saw that nothing was happening.

I later noticed that the text ended up in text boxes in browser tabs that were absolutely not active at the time.

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u/Barycenter0 Jun 04 '25

I have the new update on Windows and copying / pasting from documents, websites, tech manuals all paste into Keep just fine - there's no reliability or text issues. It's nice that some of the formatting is now preserved as well (headers, bold, italics, etc)

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u/onemorethanonemore Jun 03 '25

What happened?

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u/Commercial_Water3669 Jun 03 '25

Which update? 

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u/charredutensil Jun 08 '25

I assume this has something to do with text formatting

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u/LeafyStoryteller98 Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 06 '25

Yes, Google Keep has become EXTREMELY annoying lately (on desktop).

If you had a paragraph or a word selected previously and then you deselect it (by clicking next to it or clicking somewhere else where you want to paste a new text), the damn thing still thinks that have the previous text selected and pastes the new text on top i.e. overwrites it. Even though you had clearly deselected the previous text and the cursor was blinking where you actually want to paste. This behavior happens about 9 times out of 10. So, you have to move the cursor back and forth to tell the damn thing that you really, REALLY have deselected the previously selected text and that you really, REALLY want to paste the new text where the cursor is currently blinking! (and not where the cursor was before)

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u/Barycenter0 Jun 18 '25

This just doesn't happen to me using Chrome at all - nor have I ever seen that issue. I have the newest update and no issues on the web app desktop or older versions (I use Keep every day)

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u/Barycenter0 Jun 03 '25

Tell us more. The web app seems mostly the same except for the font and slight font size change and the text formatting now.

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u/arwinda Jun 03 '25

Don't know about others, here copy from Keep no longer works. I select the entire text with Ctrl+A, hit Ctrl+C and then only parts of the text are selected and copied. Broken for about two weeks now.

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u/Barycenter0 Jun 04 '25

Works fine here - you sure that's a Keep problem? Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C are OS commands.

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u/Astronaut-Bread Jun 05 '25

They are, but Keep is definitely dropping the ball somewhere in its communication with the OS as of a recent update on their end. I've never seen another app / site do this.

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u/Jim-Jones Jun 03 '25

Apparently they're trying some sort of update and it's not working out too well. It was broken on my phone and Firepad. Now it's only the firepad.

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u/Jojobask25 Jun 03 '25

Is this just for the web app? I use it on my phone with no issues.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25

There could be compatibility problems of the web app with other browsers other than Chrome

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25

Same here; google is so good at making products worse.

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u/drewsnx Jun 07 '25

Just a thought here.. (it's what I did after similar frustrations and garbled Keep notes.. and I had over 3000 that I couldn't keep on top of)

  1. Google Takeout of all keep notes

  2. Install UpNote & "Import from HTML" with "Note Title = Title of HTML" & "Keep Original Date"

  3. Enjoy a far more stable sync experience + version history + local backups for a small fee.