why are the css classes so funky? (e.g. class="TUdKmf-xhiy4-haAclf h1U9Be-xhiy4-qAWA2"). Are they randomly generated? what's the purpose?
That's true for all of their stuff. Look at GMail
Google Keep
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Re: Google Keep
#32This is extremely minimal, I'd honestly expect more from a Google product. There's not even a tutorial or anything. Also why are there not any text formatting options? I'd love a real Google Evernote competitor but this is not even in the same league. Am I missing something, or is this just neutered Google Drive?
> This is extremely minimal, I'd honestly expect more from a Google product.
Given the fact that they are saying access from the Drive UI is coming soon, I suspect the release was rushed after the accidental leak. I wouldn't expect them to release a new Drive app when that requires a separate URL before its integrated into the Drive UI.
OTOH, its not unheard of for Google to introduce a new service in a fairly minimal form and rapidly add features once it is deployed. So, that could be the plan (and, of course, both could be true -- this could be an ahead-of-schedule, and less-complete-than-planned deployment of something that was planned to be released in what would have been a fairly minimal form anyway.)
Re: Google Keep
#33I used Google Notebook fairly heavily, but they discontinued it. I love (and pay for) Evernote now, which has lots of great integrations with other products. Why would I trust Google again?
> I used Google Notebook fairly heavily, but they discontinued it. I love (and pay for) Evernote now, which has lots of great integrations with other products. Why would I trust Google again?
Given that you need a Google Account to use this, and it is a new component of Google Drive, I don't think its really about winning back people who have rage-quit Google over the discontinuation of Google Notebook (or Google Reader, for that matter.)
Re: Google Keep
#34Where does this fit in with the forgotten Google Tasks, if at all? (Tasks is hidden under the "Gmail" drop-down).
http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2011/01/top-tasks-for-google-ta...
Re: Google Keep
#35So many "they killed reader how can I ever trust Google again" comments. As if everything ever has been permanent and Evernote will outlast humanity. It's a minimal todo list for godsakes.
Google Notebook also was just a minimal notepad and yet it was killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Notebook
Evernote is completely dependent on it's product to survive, so they won't kill it unless they're going out of business. Same with One Note and Office, Microsoft makes billions out of Office every quarter.
Google Drive is pretty much subsidized from Adsense profits just like Google Notebook was.
Re: Google Keep
#36I used Google Notebook fairly heavily, but they discontinued it. I love (and pay for) Evernote now, which has lots of great integrations with other products. Why would I trust Google again?
Evernote has taken hundreds of millions in funding over the course of five years. How they going to justify that investment with some portion of their 11 million users paying $45/year? Are they going to sell? If they sell, will the service survive?
Re: Google Keep
#37So many "they killed reader how can I ever trust Google again" comments. As if everything ever has been permanent and Evernote will outlast humanity. It's a minimal todo list for godsakes.
Google Notebook also was just a minimal notepad and yet it was killed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Notebook Evernote is completely dependent on it's product to survive, so they won't kill it unless they're going out of business. Same with One Note and Office, Microsoft makes billions out of Office every quarter. Google Drive is pretty much subsidized from Adsense profits just like Google Notebook was.
They actually have a fairly large number of enterprise users. In any case, I think the parent's point was that even if Google did eventually shut it down, it's a todo list so it shouldn't be that hard to replace.
Re: Google Keep
#38Google is scary. Soon Google will achieve semi monopoly in its ability to develop certain kinds of advanced machine learning / AI and analyze human behavior, due to exclusive access to vast amounts of data. I would prefer crucial advances in these disciplines to be described in detail in publicly available papers, with open implementation, by academic researchers, rather than outlined in announcement and mostly closed/proprietary, for the benefit of shareholders.
Evernote-like data is certainly a good addition. Google Glass is even scarier -- the ultimate tool for behavior analysis.
Re: Google Keep
#39Putting aside snarky sentiments about its inevitable shutdown: pretty neat, although as others have stated, it seems a little too minimal. I imagine if your life is already on Drive that this could be pretty useful. I especially like the Android lock screen widget that lets you add stuff directly from the phone (mentioned on their blog) Regardless of the product you use, searchable cloud-synced notes that you can qui…
It's only Android 4 and higher.
Awful.
Re: Google Keep
#40Putting aside snarky sentiments about its inevitable shutdown: pretty neat, although as others have stated, it seems a little too minimal. I imagine if your life is already on Drive that this could be pretty useful. I especially like the Android lock screen widget that lets you add stuff directly from the phone (mentioned on their blog) Regardless of the product you use, searchable cloud-synced notes that you can qui…
It's only Android 4 and higher. Awful.
Did Android even have lockscreen widgets before 4? I thought there were only third party lockscreens with widgets before then.
It would seem that they were released in 4.2: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html