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Re: Google Keep

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Post by dmux »

baldfat wrote: post #44
jgrahamc wrote: post #10

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.

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Re: Google Keep

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Post by criswell »

It's confusing that there's "Notes" here but I don't see the "Notes" from my gmail account. Which would be useful since it syncs up with my phone's notes.

Re: Google Keep

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Post by true_religion »

dmux wrote: post #80
baldfat wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Not really an 'evil' if you willingly consent to it.

Re: Google Keep

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Post by justaman »

Ill stay with sticky-notes and white-boards until I have a fully encrypted digital PA to record and manage this sort of thing for me.

Re: Google Keep

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Post by jjnoakes »

fs111 wrote: post #15

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

Why not keep all of your notes in your head?

You get the audio and images (and even video!) for free, searching and sorting are much faster, and you'll never have to buy pen or paper again.

And as a bonus, you'll stop polluting all the time (all of those empty pens and pieces of scribbled-on, crumpled-up paper) - when you die, your notes will just vanish with you.

Sounds like I just saved you a ton of money and time, and my advice can help you save the planet a little too.

Switch today!

Re: Google Keep

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Post by jjnoakes »

fs111 wrote: post #53
jjnoakes wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you can't share it easily with others (unless you are in the same physical place and are willing to lose your copy, or make a backup by hand)

those are my notes, why would I want to share them?

There's a difference between "I don't want to share some or most of my notes" and "There's just no easy way to share any of my notes, even if I wanted to".

If you can't think of a reason why sharing a note might benefit you, you either lead a very solitary life (nothing wrong with that) or you have a very limited imagination (nothing wrong with that either).

And even if you were the one-in-a-thousand (or higher) that simply has no need for any single feature of any modern note-taking app, saying "Well chiseling my notes into a rock works for me" really contributes zero to the discussion about the software.

Re: Google Keep

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Post by jjnoakes »

fs111 wrote: post #55
jjnoakes wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you can't capture images (unless you're a great artist - and even then, it'll be very slow)

I work on backend software. There is no UI or web-interface or whatever. I do almost all my work on the cli, so I really don't have much use for that either.

I see. And if I mention how you can't copy and paste from the CLI to your notes, or back again, you'll probably make up some reason why that isn't something you'd ever want to do either.

Good talk. Thanks for contributing your important view point about this software ("I don't need it") to the discussion.

Re: Google Keep

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Post by writtles »

snogglethorpe wrote: post #65

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!

Same here. Now it only needs the capability to share items (lists in particular).
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