Gadgetory

oh hey guys it's David with the Virgen we're looking at Google keep the new sort of note-taking app that Google just launched a little while ago basically it's designed to be like sticky notes it's not competing with Evernote or any of the services like that it's supposed to be a really easy way to capture stuff that you want and basically it gives you three different ways to do it you can open up here and just type a note and save it and just like that it's a note and it's stored in Drive and it's accessible via the Android app we'll get to that in a second you can also upload a picture which is really just as simple as picking a picture and hitting Enter and it uploads and it's all stored here and just streamed in this one line you can also quickly create a list if you want you know a shopping list or something like that there's really not that much you can do with it at that point you can search so like if I have a grocery list it'll search through my grocery list and find all the things that are on here it's there and you can archive a note you can delete it so they're really two different ways to see your notes right now there's the stream like this where everything's just kind of in a running chronological order or you can see it in a grid which is a little easier to get a big sense of all of the notes see that you have so the keep Android app just launched as well and it's basically the same thing you have a couple of different ways to add notes here you can add voice notes so you can say remember to pick up milk after work and it'll just put it right in there and you can save it and like with the web app you can color code things to make them a little easier to find there's also a keep widget which basically lets you just jump to write to the same things to take a picture and upload it and it's dead simple it's really fast that's one of the best things about this actually is a lot faster than something like Evernote or even simple note just for uploading things but for right now it's super basic there's really not much you can do except have this one big running stream of stuff and you can obviously search but what's really cool is what could come next they they're gonna integrate this with Drive so all your files will be available there but it would also be great when you could take a note and then immediately jump it to Gmail or Google Calendar or any of a number of different services so that's Google keep it's available for Android and the web right now and it is pretty basic right now it's gonna be great for some people but not nearly enough for others and hopefully they keep growing it and don't kill it in some spring-cleaning three years from now you