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Re: Google Keep

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

I tried a few years ago, but I have not solved the problem of quickly finding something that I might have written a few weeks/months ago. And you can't reorder/update quickly your items every week either. Any tips on that ? I would be willing to try again because the feeling of paper and pen is much nicer that a cold and soulless screen.

Re: Google Keep

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post #40

Discussions from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395147 I've been a user for a year now, and nothing has changed about the service except minor tweaks.

Last year?! It's been out for how long? :( I really like it so far and have been wanting something like it for quite a while (I've been using plain text files in dropbox). I feel so... behind or something.

It launched to the public on March 20th, 2013. There are official apps for Android and iOS. I can't speak for the iOS app as I haven't used it, but the Android app is very nice.

Re: Google Keep

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Why all the weird snarky replies?

Google Keep is a simple little synchronized notepad thing... It isn't an all-singing, all-dancing, mega-app―but it is quite useful for keeping notes which you can then access from everywhere, and it's quick and easy to use.

I've found it very handy!

Re: Google Keep

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Whenever Google puts out a product, you can bet your bottom dollar the comments will be dominated by the cynical view that every product Google releases is somehow the product of a group of shady, hunched-over people with wild eyes rubbing their hands together and saying "How do we get even more data out of people?" "I've got it!" "cackling." This comment is not like that. In the interest of varying the discussion, here's an alternate interpretation.

Google produces Android, which is a platform. The platform business model is well understood: gain a toehold by making a product that provides some fundamental service (telephony, mobile internet, app store), then expand the value of your platform by covering the long tail of things people might find useful (Keep, the new camera app, the various rollouts mobile versions of well-known Google products).

This if why Google Keep exists. Let's say Keep has 10 engineers working on it. Imagine the impact those ten people can have: Android has an addressable market of well over a billion handsets. If you apply standard shitty-startup-business-plan logic, capturing even one percent of them is a significant user base. And they don't even need to worry about revenue because the advertising business is literally printing money! It almost makes you envy them for working at such a large company.

Re: Google Keep

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post #33
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.

Looks more like a Trello competitor to me.

Not really -- I have used both and they address different requirements (at least as of today). But definitely a competition for Evernote.

Re: Google Keep

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post #67

Whenever Google puts out a product, you can bet your bottom dollar the comments will be dominated by the cynical view that every product Google releases is somehow the product of a group of shady, hunched-over people with wild eyes rubbing their hands together and saying "How do we get even more data out of people?" "I've got it!" " cackling ." This comment is not like that. In the interest of varying the discussion,…

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