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- robertcope 12y agoI could never find a way to share notes with anyone. Seems like a required feature to me. Am I missing it?
- McGuffin 12y agoI can't seem to find it in the web version, but you can share from the android app, to my knowledge.
- S4M 12y ago> Google Keep let's you quickly capture what's on your mind. Google already knows who my friends are, what they email me, what I look for, and now it wants to know what's on my mind as well. The service can be convenient, but it creeps me a bit that Google wants to aggregate even more information on me.
- ankushio 12y agoThis was launched months ago
- sniuff 12y ago1 year ago
- warcode 12y agoBeen using keep for all my notes for a while now. Did something happen to make it worth posting this today?
- casca 12y agoFor anyone else who wants to know what this is without signing in: http://www.google.com/keep/ http://www.google.com/keep/ It looks like Google's taking on Evernote with Keep.
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- afaqurk 12y agoI don't think Google Keep is anywhere near a competitor of Evernote. Keep is a different class of application. More of a to do list or quick note manager. Whereas evernote is a full blown digital notebook with an extensive feature list. Its like comparing Microsoft One Note to the iPhone notepad. Right?
- wil421 12y agoEvernote and OneNote are much more than list taking apps. I think Keep competes more with Apple's Notes than anything else.
- baldfat 12y agoI view it as a Pocket competitor.
- Cyph0n 12y agoLooks more like a Trello competitor to me.
- nnain 12y agoNot really -- I have used both and they address different requirements (at least as of today). But definitely a competition for Evernote.
- jclos 12y agoI don't even think it is much competition for Evernote. They sit on two sides of the same need's spectrum of complexity, the extreme simplicity of Keep and the extreme feature-completeness of Evernote and OneNote. The main competitor of Keep is just Dropbox + some txt file.
- Polarity 12y agocoded my own thing http://todo.share.ac/ http://todo.share.ac/
- cake 12y agoIf you have some kind of hosting, it's your duty to either code your own Google Keep or find some open source project. No reason to depend on Google for this kind of stuff. They'll probably ditch it at some point anyway.
- Polarity 12y agoright. and also you dont need this sign up bullshit i really hate nowadays!
- afaqurk 12y agoI love it. Your implementation is exactly what I think these apps should be: simple, extreme minimalism of UI, and light weight.
- Polarity 12y agothx mate, that was my intention. keep it simple without sign up
- snogglethorpe 12y agoSooooo.... sort of like Google Keep...?
- kehrlann 12y agoVery nice ! Any plan on making it open-source ?
- Polarity 12y agonot yet but i will at some point. code needs def some polish ;D
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- jgrahamc 12y agoMeanwhile at Google HQ. Googler #1: "We've managed to capture everyone's video watching habits, email, activities via Calendar, audio and video calls, browsing habits, what they're looking at via Glass, and where they are via Maps. But there's a major hole in our knowledge: we don't know what people are thinking". Googler #2: "Let's get people to tell us. We'll call it Keep and give it the tag line: 'Google Keep lets you quickly capture what’s on your mind.'"
- baldfat 12y agoHere is my opposition: Google tells us they keep the data. Everyone especially your ISP and government is capable of MUCH more private information.
- dmux 12y agoThe lesser of two evils is still evil.
- baldfat 12y agoThis isn't an EVIL discussion to me. My view is that everything I put out on the internet is public. Things I want to keep private is the same as keeping my home safe. I can make it difficult for people to break in BUT if they want to I know that they can with enough effort. My job is just to make it more difficult than worth it. Everyone is spitting data into the world. Who is seeing it is the question? I never stop being amazed at how people view the Internet as a private place. Sure you can use Tor and Tail but really the Internet is not a locked box. Also I know that I am viewed as suspect by my government if I run either one of those on my IP. Causing them to think it is worth it to break in and look at my data. Google is services I get for letting them see what I do. I am okay with being the product and use my internet as such. If you don't want to they don't have a business model for that.
- true_religion 12y agoNot really an 'evil' if you willingly consent to it.
- crbaker 12y agoKeep is Google's Moonshot for Notes
- bfwi 12y agoI've been thinking about finding an app like this for a while. This is an ok implementation, but I think it's too rigid. Something like this should be messier and give the user some more freedom to arrange stuff the way he wants. More like an actual desk and less like a list of notes. Does anyone know of an app like that?
- zoul 12y agoKeep until discontinued?
- atmosx 12y agoExactly. Extremely simple with tones of different solutions... It's just a side-project with no income that soon will be discharged.
- kalagan 12y agoI've been using Keep on my phone for a while but I didn't know about the website version.
- fs111 12y agoI use a Moleskine and an pen. Works everywhere, never crashes, no dependency on a third party.
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- mike-cardwell 12y agoTwo problems with your solution: No backups in case of loss/theft and having to carry around extra items all the time. I'd rather use a phone to take notes.
- fs111 12y agosure it is not perfect, but whenever I used a digital note taking thing I felt I was using the app to procrastinate rather than doing the real work. It might just be me, but it does not happen with a classical note book + I can scribble in it as well.
- VeejayRampay 12y agoAnd the additional benefit of an overpriced glorified notepad.
- fs111 12y agolet me guess, you wrote that on a Mac.
- jjnoakes 12y agoAnd you can't share it easily with others (unless you are in the same physical place and are willing to lose your copy, or make a backup by hand)
- fs111 12y agothose are my notes, why would I want to share them?
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- muhuk 12y agoLooks like this is competing with Trello. But, if the goal is productivity as opposed to social widgetry, the latter is light years ahead IMO.
- drKarl 12y agoLooking for Evernote self-hosted replacements I found these for now: https://github.com/grena/gruik https://github.com/grena/gruik https://github.com/shubik22/BetterNote https://github.com/shubik22/BetterNote The second one I think doesn't have private notes, so lacks something very important. Nice bases to build something more robust, though
- nrshirj 12y agoLooks a lot like Trello! Trello was recently in news for good reason. Seems now Google's time to catchup with everything!
- k-mcgrady 12y agoIt's just a simple note taking app. Trello is a project management solution.
- Zigurd 12y agoThe best thing about a 2650x1440 monitor is that all my Google Keep to do lists fit on the screen without scrolling. I feel so much better now.
- valugi 12y agoThey can't afford to buy Trello?
- DCKing 12y agoDiscussions from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395147 I've been a user for a year now, and nothing has changed about the service except minor tweaks.
- crosvenir 12y agoLast year?! It's been out for how long? :( I really like it so far and have been wanting something like it for quite a while (I've been using plain text files in dropbox). I feel so... behind or something.
- aqzman 12y agoIt launched to the public on March 20th, 2013. There are official apps for Android and iOS. I can't speak for the iOS app as I haven't used it, but the Android app is very nice.
- wastedhours 12y agoWith it being pre-installed on KitKat I just used it without thinking about whether it was "out" there yet. Great service that I use every day. You can even set each note with a reminder time or location that'll notify you (on phone and Wear) to, well, remind you of it. Great for things you remember at work but need for home etc...
- jgeerts 12y agoWhen the major software company after making the web a resourceful place decides that taking notes is the next problem to tackle means that absolutely every problem in the world has already been solved.
- ck2 12y agoaka the NSA would like you to volunteer your thoughts which they cannot easily record yet
- dredmorbius 12y agoIt's Google Nope to me. This is precisely the sort of feature I'd like to see on a federated, distributed, secure-from-the-ground-up system. Not cloud. But self-hosted-with-peers. See FreedomBox and Sandstorm.io for the closest approximations of this to date.
- jpswade 12y agoGoogle have killed projects bigger than this in the past so they can focus on big problems. So I ask, what big problem does this solve?
- AUmrysh 12y agoThat's the biggest reason I'm not enthusiastic to use new google products. In this case, it looks nice and all, but Trello is more likely to still be there in 2 years.
- darkmuck 12y agoThere really needs to be a bulk export feature
- ghostbunnies 12y agoI don't see what's the 'news' here? This has been launched in 2013. OMG, please let me submit Coinbase! :)
- snogglethorpe 12y agoWhy all the weird snarky replies? Google Keep is a simple little synchronized notepad thing... It isn't an all-singing, all-dancing, mega-app―but it is quite useful for keeping notes which you can then access from everywhere, and it's quick and easy to use. I've found it very handy!
- writtles 12y agoSame here. Now it only needs the capability to share items (lists in particular).
- _navaneethan 12y agoGoogle's Keep will help you to keep engaged -tagline for keep :)
- jfasi 12y agoWhenever Google puts out a product, you can bet your bottom dollar the comments will be dominated by the cynical view that every product Google releases is somehow the product of a group of shady, hunched-over people with wild eyes rubbing their hands together and saying "How do we get even more data out of people?" "I've got it!" "cackling." This comment is not like that. In the interest of varying the discussion, here's an alternate interpretation. Google produces Android, which is a platform. The platform business model is well understood: gain a toehold by making a product that provides some fundamental service (telephony, mobile internet, app store), then expand the value of your platform by covering the long tail of things people might find useful (Keep, the new camera app, the various rollouts mobile versions of well-known Google products). This if why Google Keep exists. Let's say Keep has 10 engineers working on it. Imagine the impact those ten people can have: Android has an addressable market of well over a billion handsets. If you apply standard shitty-startup-business-plan logic, capturing even one percent of them is a significant user base. And they don't even need to worry about revenue because the advertising business is literally printing money! It almost makes you envy them for working at such a large company.
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- wooptoo 12y agoI've been using the mobile app + web version for almost a year. I use the lists feature for shopping lists, works amazingly well.
- 01Michael10 12y agoI don't get why this was posted? There some news associated with this? Google Keep is an app I have been using for over a year now... I think will submit a random Google service's website and make HN's front page also today.
- f4stjack 12y agoLooks cool but when I saw it the first question/thought popped into my mind was: "When will Google shut this down?"
- cheshire137 12y agoI use both Evernote and Wunderlist. It seems like Google Keep is trying to be a mixture of the two.
- criswell 12y agoIt's confusing that there's "Notes" here but I don't see the "Notes" from my gmail account. Which would be useful since it syncs up with my phone's notes.
- justaman 12y agoIll stay with sticky-notes and white-boards until I have a fully encrypted digital PA to record and manage this sort of thing for me.
- louhike 12y agoIf I remember well, it was a separate product at first, then it was incorporated to GDrive. So they are doing the contrary now. EDIT: I was wrong. There was a similar product named NoteBook before that and they shut it down. http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html