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Putting aside snarky sentiments about its inevitable shutdown: pretty neat, although as others have stated, it seems a little too minimal. I imagine if your lif
by nlawalker 14y ago
Putting aside snarky sentiments about its inevitable shutdown: pretty neat, although as others have stated, it seems a little too minimal. I imagine if your life is already on Drive that this could be pretty useful. I especially like the Android lock screen widget that lets you add stuff directly from the phone (mentioned on their blog)
Regardless of the product you use, searchable cloud-synced notes that you can quickly access are a life changer, even if they're just text files. It's like direct memory augmentation; I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to have it. "The weakest ink is better than the strongest memory" and all that. The trick is to make a workflow for yourself that allows for writing stuff down now and finding/organizing it later. I find OneNote + SkyDrive works pretty well - it ties you to the proprietary OneNote format, but the features you get from it are powerful, and as long as you have the client software and a place to put the files (preferably on the web), no one can "shut the service down". Perhaps I'll give this one a try though.
- ocean12 14y agoIt's only Android 4 and higher. Awful.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoDid Android even have lockscreen widgets before 4? I thought there were only third party lockscreens with widgets before then. It would seem that they were released in 4.2: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html
- philsheard 14y agoAnyone know whether this is an innovative use of lockscreen widgets by Google, or is this something that's not openly available to other Android devs? Wondering whether is just a clever app by Google or something that makes it difficult for Evernote et al to compete.
- jamesaguilar 14y agoIn the comment you are replying to, I linked to an announcement that describes how to make this sort of widget.
- kyrra 14y agoYou can bet that they will release an iOS app in the coming weeks. As for people on Android 2.x, buy a new phone or yell at your phone manufacturer for not upgrading you to 4.x. Android 4.x brought some pretty massive changes to APIs and behavior that it is not worth Google's time to continue to support it. They would rather try and push as many people as they can to 4.x.
- smcnally 14y agoThe posted url opened and worked fine for me on this ipad.