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.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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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.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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

It is the perfect companion for storing all those little bits of information you need to do your job well, the best thing is getting it all out of your head and in to Google Keep. You can trust it to hold that information for you, and you know you can go back and use its excellent search functionality to find that information at a later date. It can also work really well for your personal life as well. I have two accounts, my work account and my personal account - I use them both in different contexts but I have always found Google Keep is great for both.

Google Keep Feature Ratings

Project Management
10.0
Mobile Access
10
Search
10
Communication
10.0
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
10
File Sharing & Management
10.0
Integrates with Google Drive
10
Device sync
10

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