Following the Material 3 Expressive redesign, the next big update to Google Keep should be the Google Tasks switch, with more details now available.
Google previously said this migration away from Google Keep’s built-in system would take place in the “second half of 2025.” We haven’t seen any reports of this getting underway yet.
When this occurs, “new reminders will be saved as tasks” with ability to “view, edit, and complete” them from Calendar, Keep, and Tasks, as well as Gemini. Google previously showed that Keep’s Reminders page (in the navigation drawer) will remain.
One thing to note is how Google Keep will stop sending reminder notifications, with Calendar or Tasks handling alerts instead. However, “you can mark reminders as complete” anywhere:
- Reminder notification on your mobile device
- Keep note
- Task details in Tasks or Calendar
In the Calendar grid and Tasks list, they will be badged as “From Keep,” with a tap opening the original note.
You can “edit the date and time of a reminder” from Keep, Tasks, or Calendar, but the name of the reminder can only be changed through the two latter apps.
If you only change the title of the Keep note, the reminder’s title doesn’t update.
The one feature Google Keep will lose is location-based reminders: “You can no longer create or get location-based reminders.” Any locations you’ve inputted will appear in the Tasks description field in an unfortunate removal. Hopefully, Google will add that underlying capability to Tasks in the future now that things have coalesced.
That’s the main Google Tasks caveat, with Google listing other edge cases with this switch for Keep:
- Limits on tasks: You can have up to 100,000 tasks. If the number of Keep reminders is more than the task limit, the oldest reminders don’t migrate to Tasks.
- Long reminders: If your Keep reminder is too long, its title is shortened after it migrates to Tasks.
- Pending tasks: You can find a list of all “Pending tasks” from the last 365 days in the “All-day” section of your calendar for the current day.
- Repeating tasks: If you have a task that repeats more than every 1,000 days, weeks, months, or years, we adjust the recurrence schedule to be once every 1,000 days, weeks, months, or years. For example, a task that repeats every 2,000 days is adjusted to every 1,000 days.
- Reminders that don’t repeat and are older than a year are added to an “Old Google Keep Reminders” list.
- Tasks beyond the year 3000: Any tasks with dates beyond the year 3000 are adjusted to the year 2900.
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