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Your Google account's tied to email, work documents, cloud storage, and now it's putting all those would-be scraps of paper at the bottom of your bag — the deadline reminders, appointment cards, and book club reads — in one spot within your account with Google Keep.

Voice transcribe brainstorming ideas, store pictures — anything, by adding it to Keep through its web interface or as an app on devices running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and up.

Like popular note-taking service Evernote, Keep syncs content across all associated devices. Create a note on the web, and see it pop on your Android phone and tablet. The tiled interface is a style we're seeing more of in apps lately, and is a well-organized feature that may actually draw us to the service.

Will you give Keep a try? Watch Google's introductory video after the break.

Evernote Food (free), the foodie-friendly version of the popular digital note-taking app, released a new iOS update today that allows diners to reserve a table at popular restaurants and rate their meal afterwards. Evernote Food 2.1 comes with reservation system OpenTable and location discovery platform Foursquare built right into the app.

For wining and dining connoisseurs, Evernote Food is a one-stop shop for restaurant discovery and recipe archiving, which is why the app has also included integration with its flagship app Evernote in the latest update.

Recipes saved to Evernote will automatically sync to My Cookbook in Evernote Food. Chefs can also share their recipes with food-loving friends through Twitter, Facebook, or email.

Evernote found themselves in hot water earlier this month, when the company forced a service-wide password reset after their network was hacked. Before updating Evernote Food, make sure you've changed your password too.

Android users were left out of the latest Evernote Food update, unfortunately. But we'll keep you posted when the non-iOS Evernote Food 2.1 is download-ready.

Watch how Evernote works with OpenTable after the break.

Evernote calls its revamped note-taking app for iOS an "update," but we took it for a whirl and — holy app! — it's much more than that. The Evernote 5 (free) for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch has an all-new home screen, navigation panel, note list . . . a new everything pretty much, and it was all redesigned to get you to where you need to go in fewer taps.

Taking notes, saving photos, creating lists, and recording voice reminders with Evernote's mobile app is faster and more efficient than before. We just wish some of these features — like managing stacks — were just as good in the desktop version too.

Evernote's new home screen was designed to make all the app's major functions accessible within two taps. In the Quick Note section, start a new text note, take a snapshot, or scan digital documents. Below, you'll find different ways to view your note library: by place, tag, notebook, or seeing all notes at once.

We couldn't think of a better way to plan Thanksgiving festivities, conquer Black Friday, or even jot down all of our holiday errands. Try it out, and let us know how you're using Evernote to organize your life.

Evernote launched its Android app nearly a year ago and now has rolled out the largest update to date for the free Android app.

Use this make-your-life-easier application to take notes and photos and record audio like before, but the latest version of the app features an updated home screen, better Google search integration, simpler sorting, and a major increase in speed. Premium users can select which notes to save and store for offline viewing, and users of the free app can update to premium status at any time from within the app. Check out all of the enhancements on the Evernote blog, and download the free app and update from the Android Market.

• Evernote now has an app in the Android Market — TechCrunch
• Starting this Saturday until Dec. 24., you can get an iPod Nano for $145 from Wal-Mart that includes a $50 iTunes gift card — Gizmodo
• The Sony PS3 is the top-selling home console in Japan — The Silicon Alley Insider
• Find out what the most watched and searched for videos were on YouTube this past year — The Official Google Blog
• Borders and Kobo are teaming up to create a new ereader — Engadget
• Here are some of the top smartphones of 2009 — CNET
• Submit your Cool Captures for your chance to win a CanvasPop print — GeekSugar

• Nintendo's new holiday commercial is cracking me up — Kotaku
• The teeny tiny cute Exemode camera from Japan captures video and photos — CrunchGear
• Now with Google Docs you can download all your files with one easy step —Download Squad
• Learn how Evernote can make your life easier this holiday season — Lifehacker
• Find out what the best camcorder is on a variety of budgets — Gizmodo
• Search for the nearest Christmas tree farm using Google Maps — Popgadget
• Submit your Cool Captures for your chance to win a CanvasPop print — GeekSugar

With all the holiday shopping you'll be doing over the next few weeks, you're bound to accumulate a ton of receipts. But instead of keeping them all in a shoebox you may forget about later, why not use this handy trick a friend of mine discovered to help her stay organized. I'm already a fan of EverNote, and although you can use its app on your Blackberry or iPhone to save notes, photos, and links you want to remember later, you can also use it to keep a digital copy of your receipts.

Just by taking a photo of your receipt and storing it in EverNote, you'll have a backup copy just in case anything happens to your original, or you just want to keep a running tally on your spending. This is also good for sending in those time-consuming expense reports — just photograph your receipts with a cell and send 'em on in! Best of all, you can access your info on your phone or home computer for later organizational reference.