How to export notes from Google Keep to Notion (and put its AI to good use)

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For a lack of anything else at hand, and perhaps a sprinkle of laziness, Google Keep has been my default note-taking tool for years. Overall, I have always found it good for what it is — effectively a digital alternative to the yellow post-it notes. Long story short, as a Notion neophyte, now graced by the knowledge management tool’s godly AI capabilities, I’ve discovered a method to transfer all my notes — and never looked back. If you’re considering switching from Google Keep to Notion, read on.

Notion does not offer a Native way to import Google Keep notes, but the workaround detailed below seems to be the next best thing.

☝️For the TLDR Google Keep > Notion integration steps, skip my self-indulgent intro and start from Step 1: Google takeout below.

My story
I hold nothing against keeping quick notes in Keep, but I’ve ventured far beyond the app’s intended use and hit a brick wall (more about the limitations of Keep in the next paragraph). Over the years, I’ve amassed a library of 1500+ notes: grocery lists, book clippings, funny anecdotes, personal diary entries, reminders, bookmarking, and everything in between. The sheer amount of notes combined with the intrinsic limitations of Keep made it a bit unwieldy for me. I started looking for an alternative. Notion had been on my radar for some time, but I only needed to see its Ask AI in action to jump on the bandwagon.

Notion vs Google Keep
Let’s just admit it: Keep is good enough for most people and you must remember that Notion is a freemium software which only unlocks its full potential (including AI features) to its paying users. But there are some specific reasons why you might want to shell out and switch:

Google Keep only support exact-match search. It’s a genuine pain in the neck when dealing with hundreds or thousands of notes. If your search query does’t exactly match what you’re searching, you won’t be able to find the note in Google Keep. This has become a real nusiance for me. Notion has solved the problem.
Keep has very limited organization features. Google Keep is simpler to use, but sacrifices a lot to achieve it. Its another shortcoming is that it doesn’t offer the deep hierarchical structure or the database functionalities that Notion does. This makes Keep much less suitable for complex project management or when detailed organization of a large number of notes and documents is required.
Keep has only basic formatting options. Keep has limited formatting capabilities compared to Notion. Conversely, Notion allows for rich text editing, embedding of multimedia, and the creation of complex documents with headers, tables, and more.
No built-in templates. Notion offers a wide range of templates for various uses (e.g., project management, personal goals, databases) that can be freely customized. Keep does not have this feature, which might limit its efficiency for structured tasks or projects.
Lack of integration within documents. In Notion, you can create pages within pages, and link between different documents seamlessly, allowing you to build a cross referencing map of knowledge easily. Google Keep’s notes are more isolated from each other.
Limited collaboration features. While Google Keep allows for only basic sharing of notes with other Google users, Notion’s collaboration features are far more advanced, with real-time editing, commenting, the ability to set permissions at granular levels, or even publish sites online. Suffice it to say Notion can be easily used to build interactive job boards (with automation).
No advanced database functions. Notion’s ability to create and manage databases with various views (e.g., tables, kanban boards, calendars) is absent in Google Keep, making Keep less versatile for managing projects or tracking complex information.
Lack of customization. Notion allows users to customize their workspace extensively, including the layout and appearance of notes and pages, which Google Keep does not offer to the same extent.

Prefilling is not supported on Claude Mythos Preview, Claude Opus 4.6, and Claude Sonnet 4.6. Requests using prefill with these models return a 400 error. Use structured outputs or system prompt instructions instead. See the migration guide for migration patterns.

Vision

Claude can read both text and images in requests. Images can be supplied using the base64, url, or file source types. The file source type references an image uploaded through the Files API. Supported media types are image/jpeg, image/png, image/gif, and image/webp. See the vision guide for more details.ShellCLIPythonTypeScriptC#GoJavaPHPRuby

#!/bin/sh

# Option 1: Base64-encoded image
IMAGE_URL="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Camponotus_flavomarginatus_ant.jpg"
IMAGE_MEDIA_TYPE="image/jpeg"
IMAGE_BASE64=$(curl "$IMAGE_URL" | base64 | tr -d '\n')

curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \
     --header "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" \
     --header "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     --data \
'{
    "model": "claude-opus-4-6",
    "max_tokens": 1024,
    "messages": [
        {"role": "user", "content": [
            {"type": "image", "source": {
                "type": "base64",
                "media_type": "'$IMAGE_MEDIA_TYPE'",
                "data": "'$IMAGE_BASE64'"
            }},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What is in the above image?"}
        ]}
    ]
}'

# Option 2: URL-referenced image
curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \
     --header "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" \
     --header "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     --data \
'{
    "model": "claude-opus-4-6",
    "max_tokens": 1024,
    "messages": [
        {"role": "user", "content": [
            {"type": "image", "source": {
                "type": "url",
                "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Camponotus_flavomarginatus_ant.jpg"
            }},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What is in the above image?"}
        ]}
    ]
}'