Google’s excellent and neglected note-taking app is getting some much-needed formatting options and overall love. Here’s hoping it’s not the last time.
Obsidian is quite nice. No Boilerplate did a nice video on some of the cool capabilities of it.
Ah, so we have about 6 months to a year before they abruptly kill it off.
I’m pretty certain they wanted to migrate everyone over to Tasks for a bit there, I got a few reminders to import my Keep lists to it, but for some reason they were struggling with basic feature parity with Keep and it overall didn’t really make a whole lot of sense, as it just seemed to be a more complicated tool that struggled to be integrated with voice reminders.
It’s impressive to me that the same company that makes Google Maps seems to struggle so much with a basic note taking app
The same company that makes Google maps can’t add search function to Google Authenticator on android (iPhone version has search).
Exportable markdown or it doesn’t matter
I am assuming someone will write a converter / exporter and that we’ll have at least a week’s warning before it gets its place in the Google Graveyard.
If Google Takeout outlives it, we might already have one.
I think Notesnook already has a converter
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Good news for Android-toting Google Keep users: you’re finally getting the text formatting options the app has so desperately needed for years.
Google announced this week that the ability to bold, italicize, and otherwise transform text in your notes is rolling out now, and you should start to see it in the app soon.
(I don’t have it yet, but Mishaal Rahman and a few others actually spotted the feature ahead of its official launch, so it seems to be coming fast.)
And actually, Google has been paying an unusual amount of attention to Keep recently: users got a new homescreen widget earlier this year, and you can now open multiple Keep windows at a time on your device.
That makes users reasonably worried that Google might at any moment kill the app, as it has so many others, as part of some cost-cutting or refocusing initiative.
The formatting options will presumably be available on the web and iOS at some point, and they make Keep even more powerful on top of that simple interface.
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No interest in styling, I have docs for that. Big features I’m missing are:
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single-note 1x1 shortcut widget (not the full single note widget – which is nice! But not a simple homescreen 1x1 link to a specific note),
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better management for pictures attached to a note (brightness/contrast/crop, re-sorting them, etc).
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Copy-paste for checklists. How is that not a thing?
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bring back letting me use google Assistant to add stuff to my Keep shopping list.
- bring back letting me use google Assistant to add stuff to my Keep shopping list.
FYI they brought this feature back a while ago
Oh, thanks!
Edit: there must be a trick to it, I just checked and it still sends shopping list entries to that weird Google Assistant List thing.
Edit2: found it! There’s a Google Assistant setting. God damn the UI for this is so awful. First question it should ask when it finds I have no shopping list shouldn’t be “shall I make you a shopping list” but “hey do you use Google Keep to manage your shopping? Should I switch to that?”.
Yeah you’re right, I just checked and the way to set it up makes no sense. No wonder people don’t know it works again!
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I find keep terrifically useful. But it is not supported by Google Takeout, so when they turn it off, I’d lose everything. I’m currently trying out sNotz from f-droid as a replacement.
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I really enjoy this Google app it is my current one
In the FOSS world, Carnet is at parity IMHO and can import Keep notes.
I really wish they didn’t have to kill third party integration with smart speakers for this. Google bait and switch at its finest.
there was a WHAT
You could use Google-assistant smart speakers to add things to specific non-Keep shopping lists - e.g. Any.Do and Bring are two that spring to mind. Google killed this integration a few months back to force users into using Keep if they wanted to retain this functionality.
Their last update to the home screen widget ruined the styling and usability of it. Made all the controls and notes take up a ton more space by turning them into big dumb child buttons, leaving way less room for actual content. I switched to Zoho notes.
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I need to use Keep to share simple synced notes with my partner. I’ve not yet been able to find an app with feature parity. Does anyone know a good app for sharing lists?
Keep with show checkboxes any good for this? Works for me and my co worker.
Zoho Notes has feature parity for everything I’ve seen, including letting you add collaborators to a notebook or note / list.
It’s the only way I’ve found to have a shared shopping list we can also use via Google nest devices too - any other options?
Obsidian and Notion are decent.
They are nice, I use Logseq and Anytype which are very similar. They are a bit overkill for sharing a meal planner and a shopping list though.
Meal planner and shopping lists are a gateway drug. Next thing you know you’re 30 topics deep with embedded webpages and items in a database, planning world domination one step at a time.
In all seriousness, I started using notion because I have ADHD and needed something to keep me on track then I really over did it and have lists and planning set up for most of my daily life and I share it all with my GF who uses it for all of her notes.
I highly recommend Notesnook, it’s a very good open-source notes app.
If you’re willing to self-host, Nextcloud notes is quite good.
I’ve not managed to figure out note sharing with Nextcloud Notes, and it seemed you needed to understand Markdown to get the best of it last time I used it.
Is there a way to mod the app to make it easier to export files and make the documents accessible from the file explorer?
I have always wanted to use keep as my main note-taking app, but no import option and not being to store most attachments mostly kills it for me. Most of my notes have some form of attachment. Mostly images, but PDFs and a couple of others are also in there. I’m sticking with apple notes for now. Yes, I have tried all the others and still do.
Yay basic formatting.
Keep should have had MarkDown support from the start
