![]() ![]() ![]() We immediately had visions of being able to jot down notes with Keep and seamlessly email them out through Gmail, or convert the hastily-scribbled "get lunch with Jane on Wednesday" into a Calendar event. Evernote is the king of organization among note-taking apps, with enough options included to accommodate different kinds of users and how they look for information. Without any tags, folders, or notebooks to organize your notes, it's difficult to imagine how you'll find anything in Keep after a few weeks of heavy use. It, too, keeps your notes automatically duplicated across all your gadgets and computers.) In many ways, Google Keep is a fairly shameless imitation of Evernote, the beloved free app for Mac, Windows, Android, iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. In an effort to make Keep lightweight and simple, Google left out a lot of glaringly obvious features that make Keep just feel unfinished. Most people will find this notepad limiting. Gizmodo, taking a shot at reading the needs of "most people": Especially not when the product comes from Google, a firm which many believe already has too much information about us. That is not what the tech press saw, especially after Google had so recently announced its intent to shut down Google Reader. There were a few extra bits (voice transcription, widgets, color-coding, reordering), but that was it: a place to keep (eh? eh?) little ideas. Your notes are safely stored in Google Drive and synced to all your devices so you can always have them at hand. (Q)uickly jot ideas down when you think of them and even include checklists and photos to keep track of what’s important to you. The new app, Google said, was something like a pad of yellow sticky notes. Here's what Google had to say on its blog post about Keep from March 20. There was a saying back in the editorial trenches of productivity/tech blog Lifehacker, that I will paraphrase: "Sometimes the internet can make you feel like a villain for trying to offer something free." Such is the thought I have in looking at Google Keep, a small-scale website and Android app that seemed to arrive at the wrong time, with the wrong name, to a certain crowd that wasn't expecting it. ![]()
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