Google Keep

[Red Storm]

Installed and removed all other note taking apps (except for S Note of course). I love the widget, one press away from a simple note, a checklist, a voice note, or a photo note.

 

[thecapsaicinkid]

I like it but it's not great as a todo list as you can't keep it visible on the widget as each new note pushes it out of the top spot.

 

[McWatt]

I think most of their products they support long term so long as they're not failures:

- Buzz no one used after a while
- Wave was hype, but died in no time
- Reader is really the only one they dropped but that's not because it was a failure. Google just didn't want to in that service anymore as an aggregation site.

As for Keep, all I can say is this is Google's attempt to jump into the Evernote/OneNote territory. This is the other category of items for Google. Copycat apps. Kinda like Google+? They won't succeed in terms of being the best, but just wanted to join the fray. Who knows if it'll survive or not. I would be worried that this won't succeed and then get killed off like other services, but somehow I think it'll stay. The other similarity is Google Drive. Box, Dropbox are huge. Amongst Mac users, CloudApp is amazing. I don't see how Drive's really a leader except maybe for the document sharing/collaboration aspect.

They also killed Google Notebook, their note-taking app with the functionality of Keep.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Great for simple stickies and lists. We'll see if they expand capabilities to rival Evernote/Clipper/Skitch, and make offline capabilities.

Presently, I use Evernote with an offline/local notebook for searchable pdf documents catalog. Works really well.