Prevent Google Keep from adding more line breaks

Question

When I take notes on my PC, I usually write everything down in a regular txt file first. Later, I would copy the content of that txt file over to Google Keep.

I don't know when they introduced this... "feature", but it's very irritating: whenever I paste the text from the txt file onto Google Keep, it adds another line break for every line break.

For example, this:

Item1
Item2

gets turned to this:

Item1

Item2

I know it wasn't always like this, it must've been a rather recent change. Is there a way to stop Google Keep from adding those unnecessary line breaks?

Answer 1

The problem seems to be fixed now. Copy/paste works ok with Chrome + Google Keep, no extra newlines.

Answer 2

Use Notepad++ and change end-of-line marker to a single LF as follows:

1. Enter, or copy/paste text into Notepad++
2. Convert end-of-line markers, as follows:
   • Edit > EOL Conversion > Unix(LF)
3. Copy/paste text into Keep.

Answer 3

This is a well known issue of Google Keep (one, two, three, etc...).

The only thing we can do is to upvote these tickets and wait...

There is a couple of workarounds (one, two) but they are not very pretty(

UPD:

That's fixed now!

Answer 4

The best workaround I've found is to use Firefox (or Edge in Windows 10).

Right now, the problem only seems to occur in Internet Explorer and (ironically) Google Chrome.

Other than that, I'd also recommend upvoting the tickets that Oleg Cherr provided and submitting feedback to Google Keep's development team via the "Send Feedback" link on the left pane in Keep.

Answer 5

Using AutoHotKey with Chrome:

#IfWinActive Google Keep ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1
^v::
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, `r,, All
Send, ^v
return