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.
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.
Any pitfalls you encounteres when setting up syncthing? Is that useful documentation you followed?
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.
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.
Don’t care. Switched to Joplin and it’s so much better, it’s not even funny.
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?
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.
Keep with show checkboxes any good for this? Works for me and my co worker.
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?
Yep we use Home Minis around the house for adding to the shopping list and I have Tasker on my phone open the list when it detects a supermarket WI-FI nearby.
Thing is I’ve used all sorts of open source apps, I have Pi’s around the house running some stuff, but Keep just works with minimal interference from me.
Zoho Notes has feature parity for everything I’ve seen, including letting you add collaborators to a notebook or note / list.
