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[–] A10@kerala.party 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real.I was looking but couldn't find any alternative that would function the same.

[–] A10@kerala.party 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] alansuspect@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] insaneduck@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Started reading title and immediately thought “oh google closing another service” luckily it’s just an update

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Itgandalf@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think they're not training their own AI from our notes?

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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...

[–] Itgandalf@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Trusting@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Keep is so bare-bones I wonder why I keep using it.

[–] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I keep using it exactly be aus sits barebones

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sab@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Cris_Color@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Subtlysubtle@sffa.community 2 points 1 year ago

It's what I started using and now I'm stuck. Anyone know of any export tools?

[–] TheLastOfHisName@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm really enjoying Notesnook. It's what Evernote should have been. Cross platform, e2e encryption, and has a web clipper browser extension.

[–] SirMaple_@lemmy.sirmaple.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] greavous@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an excellent... Simple... note taking app. Don't ruin it google

[–] Honza368@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think formatting options can't hurt

[–] greavous@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

a welcome update but there are better open-source apps with Markdown support, like Quillpad

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Looks just like Carnet for Nextcloud