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Re: Google Keep

#42
When the major software company after making the web a resourceful place decides that taking notes is the next problem to tackle means that absolutely every problem in the world has already been solved.

Re: Google Keep

#44

Meanwhile at Google HQ. Googler #1: "We've managed to capture everyone's video watching habits, email, activities via Calendar, audio and video calls, browsing habits, what they're looking at via Glass, and where they are via Maps. But there's a major hole in our knowledge: we don't know what people are thinking". Googler #2: "Let's get people to tell us. We'll call it Keep and give it the tag line: 'Google Keep lets…

Here is my opposition:

Google tells us they keep the data. Everyone especially your ISP and government is capable of MUCH more private information.

Re: Google Keep

#45
aka the NSA would like you to volunteer your thoughts which they cannot easily record yet

Re: Google Keep

#46
post #15

I use a Moleskine and an pen. Works everywhere, never crashes, no dependency on a third party.

And you run out of paper or ink or graphite every once in a while

less often than I run out of battery on my phone.

Re: Google Keep

#47
post #31
post #7

For anyone else who wants to know what this is without signing in: http://www.google.com/keep/ It looks like Google's taking on Evernote with Keep.

Evernote and OneNote are much more than list taking apps. I think Keep competes more with Apple's Notes than anything else.

I view it as a Pocket competitor.

Re: Google Keep

#48
It's Google Nope to me.

This is precisely the sort of feature I'd like to see on a federated, distributed, secure-from-the-ground-up system. Not cloud. But self-hosted-with-peers.

See FreedomBox and Sandstorm.io for the closest approximations of this to date.

Re: Google Keep

#49

Meanwhile at Google HQ. Googler #1: "We've managed to capture everyone's video watching habits, email, activities via Calendar, audio and video calls, browsing habits, what they're looking at via Glass, and where they are via Maps. But there's a major hole in our knowledge: we don't know what people are thinking". Googler #2: "Let's get people to tell us. We'll call it Keep and give it the tag line: 'Google Keep lets…

Most people cannot roll out their own note syncing server. They have to trust someone.

Despite all the negativity here, Google is a decent choice. They take security seriously (TFA, PFS), offer clients for major platforms, and have the infrastructure.

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