Label and color notes
To help sort and find your notes in Keep quickly, you can give notes labels and colors. Labelling and coloring notes only affects what you see, not how others see a shared note. You can have up to 50 labels.
Label your notes
- Go to keep.google.com.
- Select the note you want to label.
- Click More
.
- Click Add label or Change labels.
- In "Label note:"
- Check off each label to add.
- To create new labels, enter them in "Enter label name" and click Create
.
Each label appears below the note text as a tag. You can tap a label tag to add or remove labels.
Tip: You can also pick labels to apply in your note's text by typing a hashtag #.
To label more than one note at once, hover over and check each note, then click More Add labels or Change labels.
Color your notes
- Go to keep.google.com.
- Hover over the note you want to color.
- Click Change color
.
- Click a color from the list.
Tip: To color multiple notes at once, hover over and check off each note, then click Change color . Then click a color from the list.
Edit your labels
You can edit the text of existing labels, or delete labels you're not using anymore.
- Go to keep.google.com or open Keep
.
- In the top-left, tap or click Menu
.
- Tap or click Edit.
- Find the label you want to change and tap or click the Edit icon
:
- To delete a label, click or tap Delete
.
- To edit the label text, enter the new text and tap Done
.
- To delete a label, click or tap Delete
- When you're done, tap or click Close
.
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