The other day my daughter, who just turned nine, wanted to jot down her place in a YouTube Minecraft video. I bring it up in part because of Google Keep's upgrades today, which I think are great, but also because like calendar apps and email apps, we all need a notes app. This is part of a larger discussion on the balance between features and usability and design. It is, however, cross-platform and, unlike Google Keep, more likely to stick around (former Google Reader users might be afraid to sign up for a new Google app that could be pulled suddenly). I'm a big fan of Evernote as well, because of its strong organizing options-tags and saved searches, notebooks and stacked notes-but it can be overwhelming for simple note-taking.
On the other hand, the more notes you add to Google Keep, the harder it is to make sense of them. The more features an app adds, the greater the likelihood of the app becoming more complicated and difficult to use. This brings Google Keep a bit more closer in functionality to Evernote, another beloved note-taking tool among productivity geeks, without sacrificing the sleek and simple UI that makes Google Keep so attractive. Recurring reminders bring notes back to our attention when we need them. Labels make organizing your growing number of notes much easier before, Keep was just like looking at a giant wall of sticky notes randomly posted wherever. Google Keep today added two useful new features: labels and recurring reminders.
Others swear by Evernote, Google Keep, OneNote, Simplenote and a myriad of other apps whose names are all variations on the word "note." And then there are people like me who are using a combination of all these tools because none seem perfect yet. Some people email themselves notes or carry around a notepad to remember everything.
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