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Google Keep UX Overview #25

Open nelsonic opened 5 years ago

nelsonic commented 5 years ago

Google Keep is a reasonably good UX for a general purpose notes/task app.

https://keep.google.com image

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Reminder image

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Once you click anything it automatically saves the note. image

Top-right corner allows you to "pin" the note: image

This will keep it at the top of your list of notes/items.

The "three dots" menu on the note is: image

There is NO API for Google Keep, see: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/issues/227 šŸ™„ but there is a reverse-engineered API: https://github.com/kiwiz/gkeepapi image

At the time of writing the reverse-engineered/unofficial "API" does not include a few things like reminders and

The interesting part is: https://github.com/kiwiz/gkeepapi/blob/master/gkeepapi/node.py There is also: https://github.com/Nekmo/gkeep (CLI) which uses the unofficial API and implements a CLI for the main features but requires you to store your Google account password in a plaintext auth.txt file. šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚

Walkthrough of using the app:

image https://youtu.be/ukQqmw2OjNs

image https://youtu.be/mpwr6-Tgohg

1:36 - Take a fancy Sticky note 2:02 - Add/ take picture 2:39 - Draw freehand 3:44 - Colors and Labels 4:35 - Add reminder by TIME or PLACE 6:01 - Image to text 7:00 - Share notes +add a collaborator 8:02 - Create checklist notes 8:25 - From google Keep to Google DOC 9:35 - Save a WebPage as note in Chrome extension 10:55 - Search... 11:35 - Search text of images (you should have deleted the text and re-do the research :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Keep image No "history" or ability to "undo" changes. šŸ˜ž

The reason I (Nelson) never adopted Keep as my "todo list" is that there is no API to extract/import data which means I cannot trust that it won't simply disappear if Google decides they don't want to support the App anymore. Google has killed many perfectly good products over the years: https://gcemetery.co https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle image

Yes, there is a "workaround" with the unofficial API but it's incomplete and will "break" if google changes anything in the UI (which they have been known to do). There is no indication from Google that an API is on the horizon.