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I do not like Google Keep.
Often times when I need to jot something down, it comes as a surprise to me. I'm not prepared with a blank canvas in my software of choice. The time it takes me to get a blank Google Note open from my laptop is unacceptable. Ignore the fact that it requires an internet connection to create new notes, which isn't always available, or that keep.google.com is a pretty hefty website with a lot of pretty JS and CSS that slows things down. I have to find a web browser (I might be in another app), CMD+T, keep.google.com, wait for it to load, then I can start typing. This is always slower than a native solution.
The horizontal width of each note in the UI makes long notes difficult to ingest.
The "popup on top of all your other notes" nature of reading each note hurts focus when trying to get ideas down. I have a lot of notes with images, and Keep makes them look absolutely gorgeous. But that comes at the cost of being distracting when I don't need them.
The lack of any formatting makes using it for taking meeting notes pretty rough. Usually I like to have a section where I jot down prep notes, then create one or more additional sections for major topics in the meeting. Bullet points are excellent to integrate as well sometimes. Keep allows these, but only as a checklist and they commander the entire note body.
That's not to say it doesn't do anything right. That's the thing you slowly discover when you move between software ecosystems often; everyone does something really well, and then falls flat on other things. I really like the "Copy to Google Docs" feature. I like reminders right inside notes. I like how pretty much of the UI is, though it comes at a cost of performance so I wouldn't ask any other more barebones solution to amp up the style unless they could solve that problem first.
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I do not like Google Keep.
Often times when I need to jot something down, it comes as a surprise to me. I'm not prepared with a blank canvas in my software of choice. The time it takes me to get a blank Google Note open from my laptop is unacceptable. Ignore the fact that it requires an internet connection to create new notes, which isn't always available, or that keep.google.com is a pretty hefty website with a lot of pretty JS and CSS that slows things down. I have to find a web browser (I might be in another app), CMD+T, keep.google.com, wait for it to load, then I can start typing. This is always slower than a native solution.
The horizontal width of each note in the UI makes long notes difficult to ingest.
The "popup on top of all your other notes" nature of reading each note hurts focus when trying to get ideas down. I have a lot of notes with images, and Keep makes them look absolutely gorgeous. But that comes at the cost of being distracting when I don't need them.
The lack of any formatting makes using it for taking meeting notes pretty rough. Usually I like to have a section where I jot down prep notes, then create one or more additional sections for major topics in the meeting. Bullet points are excellent to integrate as well sometimes. Keep allows these, but only as a checklist and they commander the entire note body.
That's not to say it doesn't do anything right. That's the thing you slowly discover when you move between software ecosystems often; everyone does something really well, and then falls flat on other things. I really like the "Copy to Google Docs" feature. I like reminders right inside notes. I like how pretty much of the UI is, though it comes at a cost of performance so I wouldn't ask any other more barebones solution to amp up the style unless they could solve that problem first.
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I do not like Google Keep.
Often times when I need to jot something down, it comes as a surprise to me. I'm not prepared with a blank canvas in my software of choice. The time it takes me to get a blank Google Note open from my laptop is unacceptable. Ignore the fact that it requires an internet connection to create new notes, which isn't always available, or that keep.google.com is a pretty hefty website with a lot of pretty JS and CSS that slows things down. I have to find a web browser (I might be in another app), CMD+T, keep.google.com, wait for it to load, then I can start typing. This is always slower than a native solution.
The horizontal width of each note in the UI makes long notes difficult to ingest.
The "popup on top of all your other notes" nature of reading each note hurts focus when trying to get ideas down. I have a lot of notes with images, and Keep makes them look absolutely gorgeous. But that comes at the cost of being distracting when I don't need them.
The lack of any formatting makes using it for taking meeting notes pretty rough. Usually I like to have a section where I jot down prep notes, then create one or more additional sections for major topics in the meeting. Bullet points are excellent to integrate as well sometimes. Keep allows these, but only as a checklist and they commander the entire note body.
That's not to say it doesn't do anything right. That's the thing you slowly discover when you move between software ecosystems often; everyone does something really well, and then falls flat on other things. I really like the "Copy to Google Docs" feature. I like reminders right inside notes. I like how pretty much of the UI is, though it comes at a cost of performance so I wouldn't ask any other more barebones solution to amp up the style unless they could solve that problem first.
NK
I do not like Google Keep.
Often times when I need to jot something down, it comes as a surprise to me. I'm not prepared with a blank canvas in my software of choice. The time it takes me to get a blank Google Note open from my laptop is unacceptable. Ignore the fact that it requires an internet connection to create new notes, which isn't always available, or that keep.google.com is a pretty hefty website with a lot of pretty JS and CSS that slows things down. I have to find a web browser (I might be in another app), CMD+T, keep.google.com, wait for it to load, then I can start typing. This is always slower than a native solution.
The horizontal width of each note in the UI makes long notes difficult to ingest.
The "popup on top of all your other notes" nature of reading each note hurts focus when trying to get ideas down. I have a lot of notes with images, and Keep makes them look absolutely gorgeous. But that comes at the cost of being distracting when I don't need them.
The lack of any formatting makes using it for taking meeting notes pretty rough. Usually I like to have a section where I jot down prep notes, then create one or more additional sections for major topics in the meeting. Bullet points are excellent to integrate as well sometimes. Keep allows these, but only as a checklist and they commander the entire note body.
That's not to say it doesn't do anything right. That's the thing you slowly discover when you move between software ecosystems often; everyone does something really well, and then falls flat on other things. I really like the "Copy to Google Docs" feature. I like reminders right inside notes. I like how pretty much of the UI is, though it comes at a cost of performance so I wouldn't ask any other more barebones solution to amp up the style unless they could solve that problem first.
NK
I do not like Google Keep.
Often times when I need to jot something down, it comes as a surprise to me. I'm not prepared with a blank canvas in my software of choice. The time it takes me to get a blank Google Note open from my laptop is unacceptable. Ignore the fact that it requires an internet connection to create new notes, which isn't always available, or that keep.google.com is a pretty hefty website with a lot of pretty JS and CSS that slows things down. I have to find a web browser (I might be in another app), CMD+T, keep.google.com, wait for it to load, then I can start typing. This is always slower than a native solution.
The horizontal width of each note in the UI makes long notes difficult to ingest.
The "popup on top of all your other notes" nature of reading each note hurts focus when trying to get ideas down. I have a lot of notes with images, and Keep makes them look absolutely gorgeous. But that comes at the cost of being distracting when I don't need them.
The lack of any formatting makes using it for taking meeting notes pretty rough. Usually I like to have a section where I jot down prep notes, then create one or more additional sections for major topics in the meeting. Bullet points are excellent to integrate as well sometimes. Keep allows these, but only as a checklist and they commander the entire note body.
That's not to say it doesn't do anything right. That's the thing you slowly discover when you move between software ecosystems often; everyone does something really well, and then falls flat on other things. I really like the "Copy to Google Docs" feature. I like reminders right inside notes. I like how pretty much of the UI is, though it comes at a cost of performance so I wouldn't ask any other more barebones solution to amp up the style unless they could solve that problem first.
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