What is this? Posterus again?
this reminds me, I need to get all my crap out of docs/drive whatever before that gets shut down
Google Keep
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Re: Google Keep
#82Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... everything works, but recording(crashes app).
this makes a lot more sense to me than the web app. I'm usually in need of a quick dictation tool that I can sync with my home pc everyday.
Re: Google Keep
#83Warren Ellis: Dear Google: why launch Google Keep when you've just proven you'll shut off productivity services when you get bored with maintaining them? https://twitter.com/warrenellis/status/314493398138630145
Precisely. I'd thought of building something like this for my own use last autumn, and ironically actually started building it over the weekend[1] (GF away for the week). When I was young and naive, reading that one of the big boys was getting into the space where I'd just started a project would have scared me off and I'd have abandoned it. In recent, more clued-up years I'd have thought "ah, market validation!" and…
This is exactly what I'm realizing with my self-driving trash can: Google's self-driving car team are just a few guys who can code, and some sensors, processors, and servos attached to a car. (And since it's Google, a TON of code written by those few guys)
What, I can't do the same with an RC car chassis and a handful of Arduinos?
Re: Google Keep
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Precisely. I'd thought of building something like this for my own use last autumn, and ironically actually started building it over the weekend[1] (GF away for the week). When I was young and naive, reading that one of the big boys was getting into the space where I'd just started a project would have scared me off and I'd have abandoned it. In recent, more clued-up years I'd have thought "ah, market validation!" and…
This is exactly what I'm realizing with my self-driving trash can: Google's self-driving car team are just a few guys who can code, and some sensors, processors, and servos attached to a car. (And since it's Google, a TON of code written by those few guys) What, I can't do the same with an RC car chassis and a handful of Arduinos?
A self-driving trash can is possibly the best idea I've ever heard!
Re: Google Keep
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Precisely. I'd thought of building something like this for my own use last autumn, and ironically actually started building it over the weekend[1] (GF away for the week). When I was young and naive, reading that one of the big boys was getting into the space where I'd just started a project would have scared me off and I'd have abandoned it. In recent, more clued-up years I'd have thought "ah, market validation!" and…
> Now, in the light of the Reader abandonment, it's more like a feeling of joy that Google will educate the world about how great an idea this is, and then abandon it just about when I have something that other people might actually want to use. Drive, while also available for free, part of the core of the paid Google Apps offering, and its (as the parallel to OneNote) a key part of Google Apps being an alternative t…
You may be right -- possibly I'm overcompensating for my earlier worries. Still, if the worst comes to the worst it'll still be an interesting project.
Re: Google Keep
#86I facepalmed when I saw that Google omitted a feature that they also left out of Tasks, even though this application clearly has a lot more energy and drive behind it - labeling / tagging.
It's such a simple, unobtrusive, and elegant feature that there really isn't an excuse to exclude it, given the enormous benefits it adds to any kind of note-taking or organization application. It instantly allows the user to implement any kind of organization system, from haphazard brain-dumping all the way up to GTD.
And it doesn't take a lot. You don't even have to clutter up your pristine, trendy flat UI with labels displayed over everything - just allow the user to 1) Add any number of labels to a note (They don't even have to be displayed anywhere, except maybe an out-of-the-way Labels dialog) 2) Filter the list of notes based on one label. That's all! That's not so bad, is it?
This is also the one, single feature that could have allowed this to immediately and effectively compete with Evernote.
Re: Google Keep
#87I 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?
Wow, I thought you were kidding, but it looks like they've taken about $250 million in funding.
What have they spent it on? I have a mental disconnect between companies like Evernote and 37 signals. Why did Evernote need all that money?
Re: Google Keep
#88Warren Ellis: Dear Google: why launch Google Keep when you've just proven you'll shut off productivity services when you get bored with maintaining them? https://twitter.com/warrenellis/status/314493398138630145
For this product, I'm more concerned about integration with iOS devices. I love being able to access evernote on my iPad and iPhone. I doubt that Apple will allow lots of iOS integration with anything having to do with Google Drive/anything that helps Android's cause.
Re: Google Keep
#89So 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.
so this might spell the end for 'tasks'? https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas?pli=1
Re: Google Keep
#90I facepalmed when I saw that Google omitted a feature that they also left out of Tasks, even though this application clearly has a lot more energy and drive behind it - labeling / tagging. It's such a simple, unobtrusive, and elegant feature that there really isn't an excuse to exclude it, given the enormous benefits it adds to any kind of note-taking or organization application. It instantly allows the user to imple…
All they really need is a way to bookmark searches. Then labels can be whatever system the user wants, #hashtags, @gtd_contexts, :whatever: