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.
Here's the reality of the situation:
- If the service gives me recommendations, that's not something you could easily roll yourself. There's always some sort of dependency, like Solr or ElasticSearch that you'd have to set up. I don't have the time or motivation to stand that nonsense up on my own VPS.
- I would almost guarantee that Keep or Evernote are more reliable than anything I could stand up on my own crummy VPS.
- Anything I could build probably doesn't have its own syncing app that works properly offline.
- Whatever I need to jot down probably doesn't even need half the security that the services out there provide. Do I really care if the list of movies that I want to watch on Netflix gets leaked to the public? Meh.
- It's unlikely that any home-grown or OSS solution would have the rigorous polish of Keep or Evernote.