Keep is one of those apps stopping me from degoogling. Very handy for syncing shopping 🛒 lists between family members
Edit: Found quillpad from this thread. UI is a clone of Google keep. Can sync notes with nextcloud. Syncing is bit buggy though.
For real.I was looking but couldn’t find any alternative that would function the same.
I just tried quillpad on fdroid, it is pretty good if you want to avoid using google service and use self hosted nextcloud to sync your notes
Hey Quillpad is great! Thanks for the suggestion. Keep is one of those small google apps that ‘just works’ so I’ve expecting them to get rid of it or something. Wish there was a way to export from Keep into Quillpad and we’d be good.
Started reading title and immediately thought “oh google closing another service” luckily it’s just an update
Honestly I don’t understand what Google gains from keeping it running. It’s not like you can use it to train an AI very well
You think they’re not training their own AI from our notes?
Oh no, I fully expect them to be, I just think that tiny post-its of contextless information must make for a very noisy (ie. useless) dataset. I guess you could gague product popularity or something if people keep their shopping lists on there…
Is there an easy way to backup notes to something else?
I rely on notes for storing random stuff and that’s made me lazy. So I worry that I should be backing them away somewhere else.
Keep is so bare-bones I wonder why I keep using it.
I keep using it exactly be aus sits barebones
it’s so weird that it’s such a “simple” app, but I still couldn’t find a FOSS replacement that I like to use as much.
I’m very happy with Nextcloud notes.
I’m using it with Obsidian on my computer though, so not entirely open source all the way, but there’s plenty of good open source markdown editors out there.
I’m not a fan of Nextcloud in general tbh, but using markdown is a great plus over G Keep. What bothers me most about all the options I’ve tried is that they are always clunkier to do quick edits on the phone compared to Keep. Especially when it comes to checklists.
In fact if I find a promising project as base I might be willing to contribute to it myself these days. Memos might be this project.
Quillpad is the most direct alternative. Though I’m sad it won’t allow indenting list items in a checklist, I really love that feature
It’s what I started using and now I’m stuck. Anyone know of any export tools?
I’m really enjoying Notesnook. It’s what Evernote should have been. Cross platform, e2e encryption, and has a web clipper browser extension.
This looks very promising. Will have try out the free option. Looking forward to the self hosted option. Hopefully that comes out sooner than later.
It’s an excellent… Simple… note taking app. Don’t ruin it google
I think formatting options can’t hurt
So long as they don’t bloat it up and then when they realise it now has the same features of 3 other Google products, decommission it to simplify things.
Will take a look when the update hits, but I hope it doesn’t overcomplicated it. Keep is nice for quick, short-term notes, and I like it the way it is.
a welcome update but there are better open-source apps with Markdown support, like Quillpad
Looks just like Carnet for Nextcloud
