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Good news for Android-toting Google Keep users: you\u2019re finally getting the text formatting options the app has so desperately needed for years. Google announced this week that the ability to bold, italicize, and otherwise transform text in your notes is rolling out now, and you should start to see it in the app soon. (I don\u2019t have it yet, but Mishaal Rahman<\/a> and a few others actually spotted the feature<\/a> ahead of its official launch, so it seems to be coming fast.) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The new Keep features are more in the \u201cshould have been here all along\u201d category than they are shiny new things, but they\u2019re still a welcome addition to the app. And actually, Google has been paying an unusual amount of attention to Keep recently: users got a new homescreen widget<\/a> earlier this year, and you can now open multiple Keep windows at a time on your device. Google\u2019s also slowly rolling out version history<\/a> so you can see all the changes you\u2019ve made to your notes over time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Keep is, if you didn\u2019t already know, an excellent note-taking app<\/a>. It\u2019s fast, available on Android, iOS, and the web, and it manages to be both extremely simple and quite clever. Paste a link into a note, and the card reformats as a rich preview so you know exactly what it is. A single-line note just looks like a Post-it, but a longer note looks more like a document. You can draw in a note; you can record audio in a note; you can set reminders in a note! And because this is a Google product we\u2019re talking about, it\u2019s all searchable and accessible in the sidebar of a bunch of other Google products.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The big problem with Keep is that its future seems tenuous. It doesn\u2019t get much attention or many feature upgrades \u2014 the app is a full 10 years old, and this is maybe its biggest update ever! You\u2019re never going to see some long speech at the I\/O developer conference about how great Keep is and all the cool stuff you can do with it. That makes users reasonably worried that Google might at any moment kill the app, as it has so many others, as part of some cost-cutting or refocusing initiative. Keep does many things better than Docs, but Docs is far more likely to still be around a few years from now. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n That\u2019s why it\u2019s nice to see Google continue to remember Keep exists, just as it has seemed to also remember this year that Tasks exists<\/a>. (Now, Google, make Keep reminders show up in Tasks. It\u2019s right there!) The formatting options will presumably be available on the web and iOS at some point, and they make Keep even more powerful on top of that simple interface. Keep remains one of the best note-taking apps on Android, and in general, and hopefully it stays that way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n