I keep getting error popup. Anyone else getting this in FF?
Screenshots for y'all, it has a list view and a thumbnail view. You can add pictures and tag with a couple basic colors.
Google Keep
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Re: Google Keep
#42Putting 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.
You can bet that they will release an iOS app in the coming weeks. As for people on Android 2.x, buy a new phone or yell at your phone manufacturer for not upgrading you to 4.x.
Android 4.x brought some pretty massive changes to APIs and behavior that it is not worth Google's time to continue to support it. They would rather try and push as many people as they can to 4.x.
Re: Google Keep
#43This 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?
Referring to something as minimal doesn't seem like a knock on the product. It's not just startups that follow lean methodologies. Google can create a minimal viable product too. In fact, this is exactly what they should do. Feature bloated products are terrible ways to launch.
It's minimal, but I'm not sure it's viable.
Re: Google Keep
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The product itself can easily be replaced, but the pain of researching the best alternative, installing new browser extensions, new mobile apps, and changing your workflow is a pain in itself.
Re: Google Keep
#45why are the css classes so funky? (e.g. class="TUdKmf-xhiy4-haAclf h1U9Be-xhiy4-qAWA2"). Are they randomly generated? what's the purpose?
It looks to me like they're just obfuscated words. If you look at one of the hierarchies, you see "TUdKmf-xhiy4-haAclf", then "TUdKmf-xhiy4-DKlKme-haAclf", then "TUdKmf-xhiy4". Seems like they're just taking a normal class like "note-body-wrapper" and "note-body" and obfuscating it.
Re: Google Keep
#46Looks nice, but I'm gonna hang onto SimpleNote, thanks.
Re: Google Keep
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The product itself can easily be replaced, but the pain of researching the best alternative, installing new browser extensions, new mobile apps, and changing your workflow is a pain in itself.
If you're super averse to switching costs, I don't imagine you'd ever switch to Google Keep from whatever you're using now in the first place. So surely that's not a major concern for the set of people that are actually considering switching?
Re: Google Keep
#48So 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.
Evernote is a very successful company with a successful business model and whilst I don't expect them to outlast humanity I do expect at least a few years.
Google has a well established record now for abandoning projects. Especially those that are free.
Re: Google Keep
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Anyone know whether this is an innovative use of lockscreen widgets by Google, or is this something that's not openly available to other Android devs?
Wondering whether is just a clever app by Google or something that makes it difficult for Evernote et al to compete.
Re: Google Keep
#50I would love this if I could make it my Chrome start screen.