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App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« on: April 20, 2016, 07:36:24 PM »
Syncs across devices, but probably most needed for phones

http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/20/google-keep-finally-gets-a-chrome-extension/

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2016, 04:09:14 AM »
If Evernote goes down the tubes...which is looking more likely of late...then OneNote is looking to take its place. Google Keep's lack of cross-platform accessibility has kept it from consideration of many until now. Might have to give it another look.

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2016, 04:53:29 PM »
If Evernote goes down the tubes...which is looking more likely of late...

Is it? Don't scare me. I've only recently started using it more. The export is okay, but not great. But aside from the sync function, the app should still run.

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then OneNote is looking to take its place.

I haven't tried it in years. I think it was probably the Office 2003 iteration I last used. It was never that great for me. The killer feature of Evernote is search. But now that MS is much better at search than it was a decade ago, I would think equaling or bettering Evernote search wouldn't be that hard.

>>G Keep

First I've ever heard of it!

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2016, 05:11:09 PM »
>Keep

I stumbled on it a year ago. Evernote is overkill for me. (Trello works more like I think.)  What I liked with Keep is that it pasted in format AND pulled in a *copy* of the photos highlighted rather than hot-linking.  Not sure if that still works, but it was handy at the time.

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2016, 10:39:17 PM »
Watching the trade press I've seen a lot of Evernote top execs leave the company recently. That's not always the death knell, but it didn't sound good to me. I hope they keep going as I've used them for years and pay for a pro license. My working day revolves around Evernote in a lot of ways, so I hope I'm wrong here.

I started out with OneNote.  Back when it was part of the advanced Office packages I was paying for it too, but Evernote was better and more cross platform to a degree (web access). I dumped OneNote in favor of EverNote initially due to the better search and the Android App. OneNote does seem to have caught up in features, and now they're free, but I don't know how well they work on Linux.

Keep is only Chrome browser based...at least that was the situation last time I tried it. I'm not a huge Chrome fan so I haven't looked at it lately.

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2016, 03:35:11 PM »
Been using Keep again since I posted this.  It has down-n-dirty utility, i used it to pass some youtube video links and related notes between machines this weekend.

One feature that is overlooked (but I'm not likely to use) is that it's collaborative. There are 2 typea of 'share' --forwarding links OR allow access.

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2016, 04:26:42 PM »
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And OCR

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2016, 09:17:26 PM »
>>Trello

I use both
 - Trello for projects as a Kan Ban board
 - Evernote for storing info in a retrievable fashion

One Note... for when Evernote goes bellyup

You prompted me to do some reading on EN and it appears that the founder who was behind pushing these unrelated things like Skitch and the Evernote swag store has been ousted and the new CEO is bringing evernote back to its core.

I wonder how many customers they would lose and how much money they would make at $5/year if they just dropped the freemium altogether. There are no features of the premium version I want, but I like it enough to pay a small amount every year to have what I have now.

I pay $12-20/year for a fair number of things. Sometimes it feels like death by a thousand cuts and it certainly creates a barrier to entry, but at least I have confidence they have a revenue model (which is something that worries me about free Google products, by the way).

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2016, 09:54:35 PM »
The collaborative notebooks feature of EN was one I thought I'd never use, but after working with another die-hard Evernote fan I have become a convert. However, you really could accomplish the same with OneNote or Keep. My fear of Keep is that it is a project that Google did nothing with for quite some time. I thought it had a chance of being dropped.

> Trello
I've never used this. You say you use it as a Kanban (看板), which I'm familiar with. Why not use EN, ON, or Keep this way?

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Re: App of Interest [Android]: G Keep
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2016, 12:15:49 PM »
Recover deleted notes in Keep
After deleting a note, you have seven days to recover it.

In the top-left corner, click Menu Menu.
In the left-hand menu, click Trash Trash.
Click or tap a note to open it.
To move a note out of the trash, open it and click or tap Restore Restore.


On desktop Keep, I haven't yet figured out how to just forward a link without allowing access to a note