

Panels are always enabled on the dev and canary channels. Attempts to open a Panel will open a popup instead if not enabled. To enable the Panels feature, head to the chrome://flags/ page and click the Enable link for this entry: Enable Panels Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OSĮnable Panel windows that open outside of the browser frame. (Remember, as with any Google product, you must be logged into your account to use Keep.) While a small pop-up window is an easy and useful way to access Keep, if you enable the experimental Panels feature in Chrome, you'll be able to launch Keep as an always-on-top Chrome Panel (or as a new tab.) Clicking it will open a pop-up window for Google Keep. With the Google Keep Extension for Chrome, the note-taking service is always within reach on the desktop.Īfter installing the extension, an orange button gets added to Chrome to the right of the URL bar. For my own purposes, if a note-taking app isn't easy to access and use, I will continue on my merry way of jotting down notes on sticky notes and various scrap pieces of paper. Sure, you could bookmark your Google Keep page or keep a tab open for it, but neither solution feels right. Google Keep may be a great Android app, but it's less useful on the desktop because Google has yet to integrate the note-taking service into Google Drive.
