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If you care about privacy, these are the Google Keep alternatives to switch to (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 37 points 6 months ago (17 children)

Literally none of those are Google Keep alternatives. They're all trying to be much more, and as a result they're much worse at the very simple job Keep does.

I've said this many times. Everyone is trying to make a digital notebook. All I want are digital Post-Its.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Thank you!!! It’s crazy how I feel like no one is talking about it, but there isn’t a FOSS alternative to Google Keep. I tried Joplin, Standard Notes, Logseq, Anytype, etc., but none of them are pleasant to use on mobile. (On the other hand, they are good alternatives to Notion, but that’s not what I’m looking for)

    I use Notesnook which I find is complete and not bad at all on pc, but the mobile interface is as unintuitive as the other ones mentioned before...

    Beaver Notes seems to be a plausible alternative for now, but is today too unstable and too early in its state (as far as the iOS app is concerned anyway).

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Try Anchor. Blazing fast. Offline support. Simple. Has Android app.
    No affiliation, just a happy user. I was finally able to move all my keep notes.
    https://github.com/ZhFahim/anchor

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That's fair. I myself migrated from Google Keep to Standard Notes and later to Joplin. I never thought that I needed for it to look like post-its :) But now that you said that I see why you wouldn't be happy with either of the non-alternatives.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    I honestly don't even care if they look like post-it's.

    What I mean is that each note is just a small, quick, disposable, spot to write a single thing for later. Anything that complicates or adds mental friction is a hinderance.

    And the notes also need to be shareable and syncable with other people.

    I used notesnook for while. I'm using standard notes now. But I still use Keep for its very specific strengths. Mainly as a shared shopping list. I've not found anything that's as good at that specific perpous.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    For shopping lists I use Listonic. It's easy to use and better suited for shopping because it groups products into categories, so you don't have to sort them yourself and don't have to walk around the store back and forth because you picked up strawberries, moved to the toilet paper section and diary and then noticed you didn't pick apples. :) It syncs, so if you go shopping with somebody else, you can split and see what the other person already grabbed (as long as there's connectivity, of course).

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Yah, I've played with that briefly once. Again, it's trying to do too much. And at the same time it's too limited. Not all shopping list are for groceries. The last things I want are recommendations, trackers or recipes. Even organization, because the app probably won't be able to guess right how to organize. For that use, I only want a simple text checklist, shared and synced. Nothing more.

    Keep has basically been forgotten by Google. No new features, complications, or updates, almost since launch. I feel like that's one of its strengths. Nobody's trying to make it more powerful or fancy.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I've got similar requirements, and I'm still at least partially on Keep due to them. So far, the closest thing I've seen is Quillpad, and being able to stack it with Obsidian is an attractive feature, but the lack of nested checklists is a deal breaker for a few of my use cases.

    And yes, I hate apps wanting to auto-categorize things for me, groceries, banking transactions, etc. I do 99% of my grocery shopping at one store, so I have a dedicated shopping list for it with categories set up to match the easiest path through the store that hits everything.

    It's crazy to me that there aren't enough people living like that to make solutions for it ubiquitous...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Wow, you hit the nail on the head. I’ve kept Keep installed because it just does what it needs to, fire off a quick thought to pin for later. Maaaaaybe collaboration.

    I would love a straight up Keep clone honestly

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