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Google Keep – Save what’s on your mind
- Kylekramer 14y agoNo integration with Google Tasks? It may be barebones and needing some love, but I like having it to the side of my calendar.
- psweber 14y agoInteresting. I was hoping this would mean that tasks would be taken out of calendar. I guess when you have millions of users, every action delights some and angers others.
- donniezazen 14y agoGoogle Tasks might be a candidate for next Spring cleaning.
- uribs 14y agoAny bets on when this is going to be discontinued?
- jrmiii 14y agoYep, right after you get hooked on it.
- donretag 14y ago"Changing priorities isn’t a problem" I love the irony.
- jauco 14y ago"oops! an error occurred" On google chrome on windows 7 Not quite prime time ready? Or am I the only one?
- Metapony 14y agoYou aren't the only one.
- nelse 14y agoSearching in Market/Play sucks. Try to find Google Keep now. Impossible.
- libria 14y agoNo need, they linked it in the article: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.keep https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
- bockris 14y agoIt was way down the list for some reason. Look for the yellow icon.
- crazy1van 14y agoIf they put it at the top of the list, people would just complain about showing favoritism for their own apps. Can't win.
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- b0sk 14y agoBefore you put your data in this, make sure there's a way out because Google has the nasty habit of discontinuing its stuff.
- Zikes 14y agoI just checked Google Takeout, it's not listed there yet.
- jrmiii 14y agoI think that's because it's dropping it right on your Google Drive. It's taken out by nature, all the time, whenever you sync.
- bookwormAT 14y agoI don't find my notes in drive. Except for the URL there seems to be me no connection to drive.
- jrmiii 14y agoYou're right, neither do I. But tfa clearly says, "Your notes are safely stored in Google Drive and synced to all your devices so you can always have them at hand." - So, I dunno. EDIT: dammit, down at the bottom - last line - " in the coming weeks you'll be able to do the same[view,edit,etc.] directly from Google Drive."
- Zikes 14y agoAh, I guess that settles that, then.
- Zikes 14y agoI've created a test note and force synced both Keep and Drive, and I also do not find my note in Drive. I do hope that Drive will contain Keep notes, though, as that would seem like an optimal solution.
- Adaptive 14y agoI would have jumped on this a year ago. The elephant in the room with every one of the Google announcements is that they've drained their coffers of trust/goodwill with the early adopter crowd, which is precisely the group you need to kick these things off. Until Larry Page makes a clear, official public comment about this, I'm left wondering what is considered core product and what isn't. Is this? Is it an experiment? I get that this integrates with Drive, which is core product (it is, right?). Not the point. Using a new tool is me spending time and effort to learn/use/integrate into a workflow. Until I know that I'm not going to be backtracking on this territory in two years when Google has another epiphany about strategy, I'm left feeling genuinely skeptical.
- psweber 14y agoFor all the talk of focus after Larry Page took over, Google still seems to be releasing half baked products. I tried switching from Dropbox to Google Drive to get double the storage for the same price. Uploaded 100 gigs, got an error, and was told I had to re-download the 100 gigs to sync again. Using an early version of a Google product for a trusted system is riiiiisky.
- LandoCalrissian 14y agoThis is a really nice comment that I think really cuts to the meat of the issue. I'll admit to being a pretty big Google apologist, but now that we know they are willing to ax services with devoted followings it makes me really hesitant to take the dive on new products they are releasing. My confidence in them being willing to support these services down the road has been great impacted. Now with every new Google that gets released the first question that goes through my brain is "Will this be here in 2 years". That can't be a good thing.
- minikites 14y agoRemember Google Notebook?
- shared4you 14y agoI loved the Firefox extension for Notebook. Hope they make one for Keep as well!
- recoiledsnake 14y agoRemember Google Bookmarks Lists? http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-bookmarks-lists.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-bookmarks-li...
- Metapony 14y agodrive.google.com/keep/ keeps giving me errors. I don't see how this is going to be an Evernote-killer for me though. (I am actually new to Evernote, but it's been wonderful so far.) I actually don't like google's unified product integration! If there was a clear way to export or use webhooks to retrieve these notes, I'd reconsider.
- psweber 14y ago"Oops! An error occurred. Please click here to reload the page." I'm getting it, too.
- joshrotenberg 14y agoMe three, over and over.
- 0xndc 14y agoSo it's Evernote, but with two panes and a white widget?
- endgame 14y ago... until they kill it because nobody used it.
- tbourdon 14y agoI've got no time to invest in this. I'm too busy finding an alternative for Reader and seriously looking at alternatives for Gmail because I'm just plain torqued at Google right now.
- alexpopescu 14y agoIs this sort of an announcement that Google failed to buy Evernote, so they decided to create a project that does exactly the same things and that will be discontinued after a while because it's not Google's focus?
- dageshi 14y agoYeah I don't think I'm going to fall for another product that looks like it'll disappear in a few years time when google HQ gets bored of it.
- uslic001 14y agoI am getting the same reload error on Google Chrome on Win 8 notebook. Not a very good way to launch a new product.
- hackernewbie 14y agoBoy, I can't wait to have two years worth of notes 'No longer supported'! Sign me up!
- cooldeal 14y agoIs this hosted on Google Drive? Anyone know if they did a post-mortem post explaining the Google Drive outage from a couple of days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5394475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5394475 The post quickly disappeared off the HN front page despite having a lot of upvotes, perhaps due to flagging. http://hnrankings.info/5394475/ http://hnrankings.info/5394475/
- slg 14y agoI keep seeing this listed as an Evernote competitor. I have a sneaking suspicion that people saying that have never consistently used Evernote since it does so much more than Keep apparently does.
- martythemaniak 14y agoThe ceaseless whining over Google Reader is getting tiresome - I don't think there's been a Google-related post in the last week that had discussion actually related to the article. Google took a zombie out back and double-tapped it. You can download your data. You have plenty of alternatives eager for your business. Move on. http://xkcd.com/1172/ http://xkcd.com/1172/
- Zikes 14y agoA lot of Google's business is based on our trust. We have to trust them as a company, and we have to trust their ecosystem if we're going to invest our time and data into it. If they consistently violate that trust, shouldn't we get at least a little upset?
- abraham 14y agoWe also have to trust them to shed dead weight or they will turn into a bloated whale that is never able to produce anything of quality. They gave plenty of warning time and have made it very easy to easily export our data.
- Kiro 14y agoHow does this compare to Evernote? (I wish there was a way to filter out all the comments referring to Reader. Most people including me don't care that they discontinued it so please stop spamming about it everywhere.)
- omonra 14y agoSo 80% of the comments here mention the Reader and yet you surmise that most people don't care about it? Regardless of what your personal relationship to the Reader issue is, you might consider the possibility that THIS product is axed after a few years when you are used to it.
- Kiro 14y ago80% on HN, 20% on other tech sites, <1% overall. I don't think it's very likely. And even if it is I would just export my data and go to another service. "But I'm used to it" is no argument since we're so adaptable.
- ch8230 14y agoKeep your stuff at Google - until their next spring cleaning!
- Newky 14y agoMy initial reaction was that they were doing a read it later service and competing with the likes of Pocket. That would be a disaster as that area doesn't need competition at this time. But it appears that they are targeting a light weight evernote replacement. A killer feature for me on this would be a command line binary which calls up my $EDITOR and allows me to write a note immediately and have them synced immediately. This, with the power of lighter production of notes on mobile devices could find a place into my workflow.
- baq 14y agothis would be a killer feature for you and about 17 other people - if they don't already use dropbox for that. if that sounds offensive, just look at the number of reader users - and it got axed. google doesn't aim at tens of thousands, it aims at millions.
- Newky 14y agoOk perhaps an API would suffice for me. I will happily write said script. Google aim's at the thousands but I feel they are in danger of neglecting the fact that people who want features like this make services like this popular i.e the tech community are early adopters and they generally recommend tools (especially tools like this) to their less tech savvy friends. Cater in a small way (you still need your swanky android apps and colors) for the hardcore tech, and you add users.
- zmmmmm 14y ago> google doesn't aim at tens of thousands, it aims at millions. I think that is a bit simplistic in terms of why they shut Reader down. Reader was in conflict with their G+ strategy, distracting millions of highly influential people out of G+ and into a cannibalising product and technology (RSS) with no clear G+ integration path. Google wants those people using G+. Even if only 10% of them convert to G+ thats better than 100% of them using Reader and living outside the G+ bubble. I suspect Reader was in the awkward situation of being too small for Google to devote a major product / engineering effort to migrate it's features into the G+ world but too big for them ignore and just leave running as a side project.
- twistedanimator 14y agoI know it's been said a million times already, but no way would I use this service after they shut down Reader. Maybe they're just fishing to see how much marketshare they can take away from Evernote? If it's enough they'll keep it and improve it. But if it doesn't capture enough marketshare, I expect to see it culled in a few years as well.
- baq 14y agoyou can't even make a nested list or a proper table right now. i'll wait a couple of weeks during which i'll probably forget about the thing.
- jimdesu 14y ago... until you start relying on it. Then Google will shut it down. No way I'm using any more Google products except the one I pay for (mail).
- EugeneOZ 14y agoWhen this service will be retired?
- lsiebert 14y agoMobile app lacks barcode scanning. I'll play around But Springpad still better from what I can see.
- lsiebert 14y agoMobile app lacks barcode scanning. I'll play around But Springpad still better from what I can see.
- lsiebert 14y agoMobile app lacks barcode scanning. I'll play around But Springpad still better from what I can see.
- zmmmmm 14y agoI do need something like this; my Gmail is littered with drafts that I created as notes to myself when I frantically needed to jot something down. However it would be a thousand times better with time / date / calendar integration. A large percentage of my random notes to myself are reminders to do something by a particular time "pay electricity bill by thursday". Even their example video shows this. Right now I use an app (Voice Calendar) which puts an event in my calendar. However these aren't really events and it pollutes my real calendar with all kinds of junk. I find it weird that despite having awesome email and awesome calendar, Google has really not done a good job of integrating their ecosystem into an exchange-like competitor yet.