Category Tabs for Google Keep Chrome Extension

If you consider taking virtual notes as one of the best ways of keeping your tasks in order, then must’ve already heard of Google Keep. The cloud-based application allows you to quickly create notes, but also lists, image notes and drawings. You can label any of these items and change their color. However, if you’re using the application on your desktop, browsing through tens or hundreds of notes can become tedious, as you cannot choose to view them according to their color, but only by their label. Well, Category Tabs for Google Keep is here to fix that.

The extension integrates into the Google Keep webpage by adding 13 new tabs at the top of the page, each of a different color; these are the original Google Keep colors. Only now, when you click on one of these tabs, Keep will only show you the notes of that color (if there are any).

If you go to one of the tabs, the note that you create there will automatically take that exact color. The extension also creates a new tab at the bottom-left of the page, labeled Customize Categories. Here you can actually rename the categories, so you know exactly what each color stands for, at any moment. The black tab is the only one you can’t rename, because that is the All-tab that you can use to see all of your notes.

While this is certainly a useful extension, a few bugs may diminish the experience of using Google Keep. For example, when you try to create a note directly from a colored tab, it might automatically create it with the wrong color, so you’ll just have to change it.

As I’ve mentioned before, Google Keep also allows you to easily create lists instead of notes. But after I installed Category Tabs, I wasn’t able to create a list directly from the colored tabs. I could only create a list from the All-tab and select its color afterwards. If these bugs will be fixed soon, then I’m sure that Category Tabs for Google Keep will be a worthy addition to your browser, especially if you use Google Keep as a productivity tool.