Keep It 2.8
Keep It 2.8 is available today. This version includes improvements for scanning documents, linking to items and lists, the items list, and editing notes and text files in windows on iPadOS 26, along with new and improved Shortcuts actions.
Document Scanning
The default name for scanned documents now includes the date and time.
On Mac when importing from a scanner, there is now an option to show the Import View when scanning a document to set a name, tags and choose a location before the scan is added to Keep It’s library.
On iPad and iPhone, when scanning with the document camera, the resulting scanned PDFs now always have OCR performed on them, when available.
Linking to Items and Lists
Linking to items and lists in notes, rich text documents and Markdown files is now much simpler — start typing the name of any list or item in Keep It’s library, and choose from the suggestions shown below the link field.
When inserting links to items into a Markdown document, it’s also possible to insert a relative path to the item; links to image items in Keep It are always inserted that way.
Shortcuts
There is a new “Append Link” action for appending links to notes and other editable text files. This was already possible with the “Add Web Link” action, but as that is primarily for saving standalone web links, the feature got missed.
The “Find Items” shortcut now has a “Match Name Exactly” option for matching items by their exact name, rather than a portion of it.
And More
There are a various refinements for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, including support for constraining the width of notes and editable text files in windows on iPadOS 26, which previously only applied to full-screen iPad apps.
Across all versions, name generation for notes and web links has been improved, particularly in non-Latin languages, and Keep It can now show thumbnails for PDFs attached to notes in the items list.
Keep It 2.8 requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later, or iOS 17 / iPadOS 17 and later.