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I've had this persistent nagging feeling that I shouldn't use Google Keep for anything important because it could be gone tomorrow.

by gdulli 12y ago

raldi 12y ago
The chances of it being "gone" tomorrow are basically zero. The worst thing that could happen tomorrow would be an announcement that in 60 days, no new Keep items could be added, and you'll have a year to download all your old ones as text, HTML, or JSON.
- gdulli 12y ago
  You're right, I meant "gone" in the sense of deprecated more than vanished. The data is safe but the disruption to my workflow would be annoying enough that I'd rather not get too used to it.
  - jojoo 12y ago
    exactly. sure i exported my rss feeds as opml to feedly and ttrss. but none of them worked like i expected it, so i stopped reading rss feeds.
- throwawaymsft 12y ago
  The hassle of having to switch is a giant burden though. Imagine grep was replaced every 3-4 years on your machine with some new, slightly different regex tool.
soylentcola 12y ago
I never really use it for anything important anyway but I can't imagine it going anywhere other than getting rolled into some aspect of Drive. It's already sort of a simplified note-centric version of Google Docs and mostly works the same way. I just use it since it's easy to keep on my phone's home screen for quick notes and snapshots I want to be able to access elsewhere if needed. I know something like Evernote is more fully featured but since Keep came out, I don't really use Evernote anymore. I think my needs in that space are just simple.
Slackwise 12y ago
I've found need for a note taking mobile app recently, but after trying to use Keep and seeing that it has zero organizational tools such as tags or folders, I just started to use Evernote instead. Frankly, it is nearly impossible to recommend Keep when Evernote exists. Until they have, at minimum, some way to organize notes, it's just a pile of notes sitting in one window. But it would still be a hard sell when compared to all the Evernote features, such as the desktop clients that allow you to take screenshots and annotate them. Edit: Oh, and there's also Geeknote¹ for CLI usage, as well as Vim plugins². ¹ http://www.geeknote.me/ http://www.geeknote.me/ ² https://github.com/neilagabriel/vim-geeknote https://github.com/neilagabriel/vim-geeknote
- bduerst 12y ago
  I've been using OneNote, solely because I can use a keyboard shortcuts to click+drag screenshots or pop up a new ad-hoc, unfiled note immediately. Does evernote do this?
  - Slackwise 12y ago
    If you disable the annotation tool popup after taking a screenshot in the settings, then yea, it creates a "Screen clip" note with the image immediately after you finish dragging the screenshot range. (Of course, you can annotate later.)

I've had this persistent nagging feeling that I shouldn't use Google Keep for anything important because it could be gone tomorrow.

by gdulli 12y ago

I've had this persistent nagging feeling that I shouldn't use Google Keep for anything important because it could be gone tomorrow.

raldi 12y ago

The chances of it being "gone" tomorrow are basically zero. The worst thing that could happen tomorrow would be an announcement that in 60 days, no new Keep items could be added, and you'll have a year to download all your old ones as text, HTML, or JSON.

gdulli 12y ago
You're right, I meant "gone" in the sense of deprecated more than vanished. The data is safe but the disruption to my workflow would be annoying enough that I'd rather not get too used to it.
- jojoo 12y ago
  exactly. sure i exported my rss feeds as opml to feedly and ttrss. but none of them worked like i expected it, so i stopped reading rss feeds.
throwawaymsft 12y ago
The hassle of having to switch is a giant burden though. Imagine grep was replaced every 3-4 years on your machine with some new, slightly different regex tool.

soylentcola 12y ago

I never really use it for anything important anyway but I can't imagine it going anywhere other than getting rolled into some aspect of Drive. It's already sort of a simplified note-centric version of Google Docs and mostly works the same way. I just use it since it's easy to keep on my phone's home screen for quick notes and snapshots I want to be able to access elsewhere if needed. I know something like Evernote is more fully featured but since Keep came out, I don't really use Evernote anymore. I think my needs in that space are just simple.

Slackwise 12y ago

I've found need for a note taking mobile app recently, but after trying to use Keep and seeing that it has zero organizational tools such as tags or folders, I just started to use Evernote instead. Frankly, it is nearly impossible to recommend Keep when Evernote exists. Until they have, at minimum, some way to organize notes, it's just a pile of notes sitting in one window. But it would still be a hard sell when compared to all the Evernote features, such as the desktop clients that allow you to take screenshots and annotate them. Edit: Oh, and there's also Geeknote¹ for CLI usage, as well as Vim plugins². ¹ http://www.geeknote.me/ http://www.geeknote.me/ ² https://github.com/neilagabriel/vim-geeknote https://github.com/neilagabriel/vim-geeknote

bduerst 12y ago
I've been using OneNote, solely because I can use a keyboard shortcuts to click+drag screenshots or pop up a new ad-hoc, unfiled note immediately. Does evernote do this?
- Slackwise 12y ago
  If you disable the annotation tool popup after taking a screenshot in the settings, then yea, it creates a "Screen clip" note with the image immediately after you finish dragging the screenshot range. (Of course, you can annotate later.)