Using the basic Notes tools, you can style text as bold, italic or underlined and you can create numbered or unnumbered lists, define quotes and insert pictures. Facebook permits simple HTML markup.

Need to quickly take notes while you're browsing the web? Just copy this piece of HTML into an open browser tab and you'll be good to go.

If you prefer viewing your Gmail account in basic HTML, you'll soon be out of luck. Google is removing Gmail's Basic HTML view and replacing it with the Standard view across the board in January ...

This time the scythe is coming for one of the company’s oldest features—Gmail’s basic HTML view. In January 2024, that simple interface heads for the great beyond.

Other basic features missing in Google Keep include the ability to link to one note from another and share multiple notes.

Google updated a Gmail support article to say that the basic HTML view for Gmail will be discontinued in January 2024.

"Basic HTML view will be supported until early January 2024. Until then, your organization can still use the current basic HTML view," Google shared in email notifications to Google Workspace admins.