Google Keep is a free, pretty, clean and simple note keeper with excellent search functionality that will help you do your job more efficiently and get information out of your head.
August 08, 2021
Google Keep is a free, pretty, clean and simple note keeper with excellent search functionality that will help you do your job more efficiently and get information out of your head.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Google Keep
I use Google Keep in my organisation to keep notes about everything to do with software that is in use throughout and anything else I need to do my job. This includes notes on resolving and troubleshooting issues, code snippets and SQL queries, steps to reproduce problems, steps to test functionality, names of stakeholders, minutes from meetings etc etc, the list goes on and on. I store anything that would be useful to help me do my job efficiently and to get the information out of my head (to free space for other things) and put it in a place I trust that I can search later. It is a really good tool, it's free, its search functionality works really well and I trust it completely. The perfect aid to getting things done.
- Search functionality is great
- Clean, simple yet attractive interface
- Easy to use
- Allows a picture to be part of the note
- Notes can be quite long
- Trustworthy place to save information you need later
- Attached to your google account
- The iOS app sometimes gets into a state and doesn't update your notes (won't show new notes from other devices / computer), needs to be re-installed to resolve
- Your notes take up space in your Google account's quota, though this is not very apparent at first - you have to keep an eye on what you are storing - huge pictures better not go in there
- It's a free product that works well
- Helps me perform well in my job
- Frees space in my mind for other things
- The return on investment is high due to it being free
I used to use Evernote before Google Keep, it is an excellent product too but I found it too heavy. At the time (not sure about now) it always wanted to download all your notes onto your device before you can start using it. Google Keep is more a cloud product, so it's lighter on your device, it doesn't download every note you have at once. Also I tended to store a lot of heavy things in Evernote because it seemed to encourage me to do that, like large photos and documents. Google Keep encourages me to focus on text only mostly, though it will take a photo as part of the note as well. I also like Google Keep because it is a part of my Google Account and integrates with other Google products.
Do you think Google Keep delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Google Keep's feature set?
Yes
Did Google Keep live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Google Keep go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Google Keep again?
Yes