Wild, I thought they’d axe keep for another similar app because “reasons”.
That’s a couple of years from now… after enough people have adopted Keep and it finally works smoothly.
I’m expecting keep to die and I’ve been using it heavily for years. so have moved to logseq in anticipation and ported my data over. So far it’s been quite smooth.
Same, almost.
I use Logseq for all my notes, but Keep cloud sync for shared notes with my wife, which we mostly just use for shipping lists.
I like Logseq so much I donate $5 USD/month. It’s the first open-source project I’ve actively funded with recurring donations.
Next week. We axing keep.
about time…
I wonder how Tasks factor into this in the future. I use both Keep and Tasks extensively, hope they figure out a way to merge them seamlessly.
(I’ve stopped using both so I don’t care but) please note that tasks are supposed to be the calendar tasks, which they’ve called reminders for a few years and now they’re converting back to tasks.
Which is a good example of why I won’t touch any of these Google apps anymore, not just because it’s Google and I’m trying to get away but also they keep moving stuff around and it’s a complete mess. They keep juggling different concepts of notes, shopping lists, todo, tasks, reminders etc.
There are plenty of other apps that choose a lane and stay in it.
What do you use in place of Keep?
Logseq is the best, imho.
There are lots of good options if you’re okay with closed/proprietary software, but Logseq is open source, fully featured, in active development, and really smooth to use.
Their business model is to charge $5 USD/mo for using their cloud sync solution, but you can use any other syncing service instead just as easily. It’s a small team that only gets under $50K/yr* so far, though, so please subscribe if it’s useful for you.
Edit: Oh, and Logseq files are plaintext using mostly standard Markdown, so it’s easy to port your data away at any time if you ever decide to migrate to something else.
* That number is just based on my napkin math of their reported subscriber numbers, with some assumptions about distribution of tiers skewing heavily to the low end.
Have you ever found a way to make reminders in Tasks through Google Assistant actually work? When they switched from the Assistant reminders to Tasks, they became so unreliable at showing at the specified time (i.e. “remind me to do ___ at 3pm”) that I can’t use them anymore.
Ever since that switch, I’ve just straight up used a discord bot. Hasn’t failed me yet!
You might be on to something there; I’ll have to give that a look!
I don’t really use Tasks from Assistant, more from manually creating them through calendar and emails. I do use Assistant for simple timers and I don’t seem to see them in Tasks?
Yeah, that seems to be a common theme. Creating timers from Assistant still works fine, but anything with Assistant that has to go through Tasks is basically broken :(
I could have sworn that Keep was the initial location for shopping lists when using Assistant before getting moved to Shopping List. Now they’re going back?
I grew to prefer Shopping List 😞
My SO doesn’t use Keep and will now have to install it if they want to view the household shopping list.Damn. I really prefer the shopping list UI over Keep
I used to use it for shopping lists, but then one day assistant said it had moved. I couldn’t find it, instructions were unclear so I gave up on shopping lists and keep.
I’ve been burned many times by Google since then, and they’ve taken me from a customer with a lot of Google products and services to only a backup email account and that’s about it.