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Google Launches 'Keep' To Rival Evernote
Today Google launched 'Google Keep', a mobile note-taking service to rival software like Evernote. It works on devices running Android 4.0 or later, and there's also a web interface (which is struggling under launch load as of this writing). Google describes the service thus:
"With Keep you can quickly jot ideas down when you think of them and even include checklists and photos to keep track of what’s important to you. Your notes are safely stored in Google Drive and synced to all your devices so you can always have them at hand. If it’s more convenient to speak than to type that’s fine—Keep transcribes voice memos for you automatically. There’s super-fast search to find what you’re looking for and when you’re finished with a note you can archive or delete it."
Fans of Google Reader will probably be a bit hesitant to pick this up.
Anyone remember Google Notebook...?
Disclaimer: Part of my impression comes from having attended the Google Boulder Open House last night, where they gave presentations on the projects they run from the Boulder office, of which Drive is one.
Be who you are...and be it in style!
i read about 'glass' about 13 years ago in a short story in a scifi magazine. but it was way more advanced. it also created persistent overlays of the real world and communicated with other 'glasses'. e.g. if i told my 'glass' to put a watch on my wrist, others with 'glass' could see it on my wrist too. same for a virtual picture on a bedroom wall, etc.
the story unfortunately isn't in english http://www.scifi.sk/poviedky/80/Juraj_Andrassy-Ruzove_okuliare.html
keeping things in sync between many devices could be done with a floppy disk as early as 1982
If you went back in time by 15 years, and suggested on Slashdot that keeping data in sync using a sneakernet was a better option than using the Internet, you would've been laughed at. I mean, that's what networks are for, and only knucklegrinders and noobs copy files around on physical media. But now, we don't call it a a "network" anymore, we call it the "cloud", and so therefore it's stupid?
I know that the term "cloud" is overused and silly, but networks are a great piece of technology and remote storage often makes more sense than local storage. Especially for applications like this.
Also, if you're concerned about data mining, Evernote don't do any data mining (or at least, that's what they claim in their TOS). Just because a service is on the cloud, doesn't mean that they are necessarily mining your data.
Can't wait until next spring. I'm pretty sure that's when this will get the axe.
You're wrong. It already got the ax last summer (July 2012) when that service was called Google Notebook (or Google Notes). Google Notebook could already be shared between all your devices, and it wasn't just limited to the latest release of Android either.
Why did you make this transition?
We loved working on Notebook, but sometimes we have to make the hard decision to focus more of our efforts on products and technologies that will yield the most benefit to users in the long run. With all the great innovations and improvements to Google Docs in the last few years, we think it’s a great replacement for Notebook. http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html
Personally, I just like PushBullet. It doesn't have all the functionality Google Notebook used to have, nor will it ever have half the functionality Keep will have (since it's really designed to push things to your devices, not really push things both ways). But I really like it. It's simple. It's elegant. And it just does the things I need it to do.
And no, I don't know those PushBullet guys. I have no affiliation with them.