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I use it, but I think Google keep does a better job than Evernote. Couple of things in Evernote annoy me: 1. App start is slow 2. Update process. It should be

by zerop 11y ago

I use it, but I think Google keep does a better job than Evernote. Couple of things in Evernote annoy me: 1. App start is slow 2. Update process. It should be silent. I dont want to read update release notes. Just update it. 3. Remove unwanted features. Have Fewer buttons. 4. Editing in mobile app is big pain. I use android. 5. In general everything must be quick, smooth and Easy. Positives 1. Rich text editing 2. File attachment with notes 3. Plugins etc.

joelrunyon 11y ago
The exporting process is a pain too. It doesn't transfer well to word or pages and doesn't transfer well to html. It's all stuck in evernote...
rhizome 11y ago
Wait, what?! For me Google Keep is just post-its with the checklist option and some reminder functionality. The location reminder is nice, but it's really not that much! To be sure, I myself don't need much more than that...but it's just weird to see it compared to Evernote, which I always thought was more fully featured.
- chii 11y ago
  if you use evernote like a scrapbook (where you have pics, snippets copied off the internet, files etc), then keep doesn't not compare - it's just too bare bone. But if all you do is keep small notes like todo lists, or quick thoughts, with very little media, it's quite good imho. Sharing a keep list allows other people to edit it as well, so it's a poor man's collab/mindmapping tool
  - rhizome 11y ago
    I can understand that, thanks, I think I just thought EN was more fully featured, like endlessly nested items, maybe some Readability type archiving, links between items of disparate collections, etc. That could just be backwash over old comparisons with omnigraffle, I don't know.
gdulli 11y ago
Google Keep does not scale well if you use it for a while. Startup time for the web app scales with the number of notes you've ever created. It loads your whole history, and your browser tab freezes for like 10-20 seconds. And subsequent operations are not fast. It's just impossible that anyone who created that experience actually used the application in a non-trivial manner.

by zerop 11y ago

joelrunyon 11y ago

The exporting process is a pain too. It doesn't transfer well to word or pages and doesn't transfer well to html. It's all stuck in evernote...

rhizome 11y ago

Wait, what?! For me Google Keep is just post-its with the checklist option and some reminder functionality. The location reminder is nice, but it's really not that much! To be sure, I myself don't need much more than that...but it's just weird to see it compared to Evernote, which I always thought was more fully featured.

chii 11y ago
if you use evernote like a scrapbook (where you have pics, snippets copied off the internet, files etc), then keep doesn't not compare - it's just too bare bone. But if all you do is keep small notes like todo lists, or quick thoughts, with very little media, it's quite good imho. Sharing a keep list allows other people to edit it as well, so it's a poor man's collab/mindmapping tool
- rhizome 11y ago
  I can understand that, thanks, I think I just thought EN was more fully featured, like endlessly nested items, maybe some Readability type archiving, links between items of disparate collections, etc. That could just be backwash over old comparisons with omnigraffle, I don't know.

gdulli 11y ago

Google Keep does not scale well if you use it for a while. Startup time for the web app scales with the number of notes you've ever created. It loads your whole history, and your browser tab freezes for like 10-20 seconds. And subsequent operations are not fast. It's just impossible that anyone who created that experience actually used the application in a non-trivial manner.