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.
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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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’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
Little too late, switched to Obsidian and haven’t looked back.
Same here. I’m using Syncthing to keep states synched between my MacBook and Pixel. All I’m missing is a shared grocery list for me and my girlfriend.
Same here!
I’ve been wondering if it could be accomplished using ignore patterns in Syncthing to only share a specific Obsidian folder/directory and put everything shared in there. Yet, this may probably be too much friction for a grocery list and Keep will work fine while it lasts.
Any pitfalls you encounteres when setting up syncthing? Is that useful documentation you followed?
I’ve been using Markor + obsidian for quicknotes.
I created a quicknote.md in obsidian and point markor too it. This allows me to very quickly open that note in Markor, copy and paste from apps directly into that file. Then later I can decide to flesh them out in obsidian.
I’ve been using one note at work and it’s actually pretty good and allows easy cross compatible sharing with colleagues.
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.
