Totally forgot about Google Keep since my phone is old & incompatible, but do other people use it...

[G+_John Mink]

Totally forgot about Google Keep since my phone is old & incompatible, but do other people use it or is it bound for the Google Graveyard?

 

https://drive.google.com/keep/

https://drive.google.com/keep/

[G+_Robert Poulton]

It's been integrated with Google now in the recent release with reminders based in alarms and also maps to an extent with geolocation reminders, so it looks to be a keeper... Perhaps

[G+_John Mink]

Tom Wala that what I figure 99% of people did.  But here's to hoping the notepad app is backed up somewhere!

 

Robert Poulton good to know, if there's anything that isn't part of G+ or G-Now, i'm inherently worried about it these days >_<

[G+_Hisa Horie]

I've been using it fairly consistently.

 

I've found that it is a great repository for all sorts of short notes and memos, think sticky notes on your device.  For example I have a Keep sheet for all the headphones I've looked at for when my current pair destruct.

 

With the geolocation OR date based Google Now reminders things have gotten even better, I now have shopping lists based on different types of stores with the geolocation reminder, one for Costco, one for the Supermarket and another for my closest convenience store.

 

I also like that I can use it both in the browser and on all my devices.  It isn't perfect but I personally find it much easier to use than Evernote for example.

[G+_S. LeBeau Kpadenou]

Don't listen to 'em. Google Keep it the shiznit, and just got updated with reminders and Google Now integration.

   I was about 20 hours into making a checklist/note taking app for use personally and in my business. Evernote was too much (I was never going to put the effort into learning and configuring it enough to work for me), and everything else was too much.

  I asked a coworker of mine, literally tonight, if he was still using Keep. He told me that he was in fact, and showed me his Keep screen. I realized immediately that I had seen him use it half a dozen times in the last week. I had just assumed that he was sending himself texts or emails or something like that.

   It seems to me that the maintenance overhead for Google is approaching 0, as it is kinda just a new UI for Google Docs. And once you integrate into your workflow, it's golden.

[G+_James Healy]

Tasks is more at risk than Keep is!

[G+_Werner Habel]

James Healy looking at what Bitspin does with tasks, i find it hard to agree. If you are right, i only hope that Google will at least integrate the funktions of tasks into keep.

[G+_James Healy]

Werner Habel I use their Tasks app; the only difference in functionality is that Tasks has categories and nested checkboxes.

 

I have a category in Tasks called "shopping list" which technically gives me more functionality than Keep because I can set a due date and add a note for each item in my list. When doing a shopping list in Keep I just have the list of checkboxes grouped within a card, and no item-level notes or due dates. But Keep does enable reminders to be set for a note, so most uses of this functionality are available in Keep already. The Tasks app prompts the user to clear completed tasks whenever a checkbox is checked, so it's not very useful as a shopping list anyway. It really screws you up when you hit that prompt accidentally!

 

I don't think there's enough difference to make it worth maintaining both of them, and Keep is clearly where the attention is. Adding categories to Keep would be good but colors can be used for this at the moment.?

[G+_Tony Fleming]

All my now are in keep now. I wish they had folders or utilized tags better. But it serves my purposes.

[G+_Grant Brown]

Keep is great, especially with Google Now integration. I use it frequently with the "Note to self..." feature of Google Now. You can have those notes be stored in Keep.

[G+_Werner Habel]

James Healy agreed that Google has not enough attention span for both of them.

 

I do really need nested checkboxes and categories for GTD projects though and painfully miss them in Keep.

[G+_Anthony Foxtrot]

All the time.

[G+_Brian Walling]

I always revert back to ColorNote as my sticky note and list app. Nice, clean, and simple. Keep is to busy for me. I prefer to see list titles instead of everything in the lists when you open it and I just use Google Now for fast time based reminders, or Calendar for long term. I don't really have a use for location based reminders. If I go to the grocery store, I always check my list anyway.

[G+_Alex Kruger]

It's being used.

[G+_Robert Marshall]

I also used it a lit when it first came out, switching over from Evernote. However, not so much lately. Hadn't even thought about until I started getting error messages a out it stopping running on my tablet every time I turned it on.

 

For simple quick notes I use Colornote. Reminds of sticky notes I used to stick on my computer monitor a few years ago.?

[G+_Jerry Ham]

I've used it since it first came out. I didn't use it a whole bunch, but definitely kept using it. Now that it has reminders, I use it a lot. The location based reminders can be flaky though. For example, I work in a large business campus with several buildings. I told Keep to remind me of something when I got to the work address. It didn't remind me when I got to work, but later - when walking to the cafeteria I was in the middle of the campus - the reminder popped up. No idea how it thought that location was the address - when you go right past the front when you drive in. Other that stuff like that it is much better with the reminders.

[G+_Steve Vander Ark]

I really like the archive function. Was that always there or is that new? It really let me clean up my screen and make sure the notes I want are front and center. Next they need to let us share lists with other people.