Android - How to stop Google Keep from seeing numeric data as phone numbers?
Looks to be bad recognition by Google's code. :-/ Happens on mine as well and no setting can change it.
Google is surprisingly receptive to feedback on its apps (a bug fix I reported made it into Google Music's update!), so two ways to get this fixed:
Go to Keep's page and click "Email Developer" and write this up. Or, within Keep, Menu -> Send Feedback.
It has been at least 3 years since this bug has been noticed and Google notified. It still hasn't been fixed! This also shows that Google Employees don't use Keep.
After must frustration I've developed a system for storing numbers in Keep:
The following are counted as part of a larger number if it has digits to the left/right of it:
- point
. - dash
- - hash
#(a.k.a. pound sign)
So instead of using all these "digits" use other punctuation, example:
- IP address
128*0*0*1 - Amount with cents
$ 1234,567,890+12 - Arbitrary numbers, 5 "digits" and longer (4 digits is the limit)
account number 555=9999=444=22 - PO Box
1921@6801
Once Keep has marked a series of digits as dial-able:
- use non-digits to break the number into chunks of 4 or less.
- close the current Keep note
- open the note again
- notice how the series of digits aren't recognized as a phone number anymore.
I'll be dropping another email to Google and I'll be referencing this post.