Wow, all those icons next to each other on a phone screen look really hard to tell apart at a glance.

Google has a history of this. I always confused the Play Store and Play Music apps. Cyan Triangle vs Orange Triangle.

I just gave this a test trying to find google drive as fast as possible. My eyes first stopped on google home since it’s the exact same colours and mostly the same shape.

The only thing that I would confuse Google Drive with is Google Chrome, because that one actually looks like a disk

Except for Keep! It's the only one that gives an idea what it does, virtual post-it notes.

I disagree, I bet people would assume it is something similar to Home because it has a lightbulb.

You won't have to worry about that in a couple months, since Google Play Music won't exist anymore.

Gmail favicon make the inbox counter useless.

It never had a publicly documented API, wish I could have baked it into VS Code and such. Obviously not a clear indicator of a Google offering with a limited time left, but cause enough for concern for me to prepare to find an alternative...

Exactly this. I used to export everything by opening the page source and filtering out the HTML elements. It was a really terrible offering, and it was originally what made me realize that Google is not the kind of company that delivers on that front.

I replaced it with a combination of Shaarli for links and Standard Notes for everything else.

Now do an export from Messages. I haven't been able to figure it out without disgusting scraping hacks. Maybe it's in Google Takeout? Nope.

Are they going to eliminate Google Keep?

On the other side, I've never herd of Google Keep.

It’s a note taking app that has existed for at least 5 years.

Which itself replaced Google Notebook which had existed for 5 years before Google killed it in favor of Keep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Notebook

Isn't keep something that can be paid for by enterprise users? Have they killed off enterprise products like that before?

Yes it's part of Google Workspace (G Suite). It's sold to corporate customers, so it shouldn't disappear without solution.

They killed and replaced hangouts, a staple of their enterprise offerings, so yes.

As a keep user, this can only make me laugh.

My goal for the last year was to be off as many google services as possible by the end of next year, and they've been making it surprisingly easy for me. All I really had left at this point was Google Play Music and Google Keep (apart from android itself and gmail, which I'm working on). If they phase these two products out, they will have alienated me out of every product of theirs I've ever used. They're already consolidating google play with youtube music (which is bizarre to me).

The hardest to cut will probably be gmail, but the fact that they slip advertisements into my inboxes has been pretty motivating. Youtube is also difficult, but as a resource it seems to somehow become less and less useful to me every year. I know that subscribing to youtube channels via RSS and using a program to automatically download the videos doesn't count as 'not using youtube,' but these days I'm starting to feel like content creators will get there eventually wrt video hosting alternatives

a very useful app. looks like gonna be chopped off soon. :(

I just copied the handful of notes I had there into Apple's Notes app. Don't want to get burned by Google again.

Shit, will they get rid of Keep? I LOVE Keep and use it many times daily.

Now I have to migrate all my notes off to another service :(

May I recommend Joplin? I migrated from Keep to Joplin a little while ago. It's working pretty well for me.

- Open source - Encryption at rest when using a cloud service for syncing - Apps for all major platforms

No note sharing unfortunately. So much for our shared household shopping list.

I use Keep just for that purpose, everything else is in Joplin.

> Now I have to migrate all my notes off to another service :(

> Now I have to migrate all my notes off to another service :(

I'm glad I started migrating to one note.

Although it does feel like there is space for an app between one note and keep.

Notion is excellent, and probably not going anywhere.

Notion and Google Keep seem at opposite ends of the note taking spectrum though. Notion is incredibly powerful, but that strength was its weakness when I evaluated for personal use.

I'll probably just stop having phone notes. Just write stuff down instead

I like writing stuff down too but you miss out on search.

Notion is pretty good.

Joplin. It's good. Use it.