Google’s excellent and neglected note-taking app is getting some much-needed formatting options and overall love. Here’s hoping it’s not the last time.
You could use Google-assistant smart speakers to add things to specific non-Keep shopping lists - e.g. Any.Do and Bring are two that spring to mind. Google killed this integration a few months back to force users into using Keep if they wanted to retain this functionality.
Edit: there must be a trick to it, I just checked and it still sends shopping list entries to that weird Google Assistant List thing.
Edit2: found it! There’s a Google Assistant setting. God damn the UI for this is so awful. First question it should ask when it finds I have no shopping list shouldn’t be “shall I make you a shopping list” but “hey do you use Google Keep to manage your shopping? Should I switch to that?”.
I find keep terrifically useful. But it is not supported by Google Takeout, so when they turn it off, I’d lose everything. I’m currently trying out sNotz from f-droid as a replacement.
Their last update to the home screen widget ruined the styling and usability of it. Made all the controls and notes take up a ton more space by turning them into big dumb child buttons, leaving way less room for actual content. I switched to Zoho notes.
I have always wanted to use keep as my main note-taking app, but no import option and not being to store most attachments mostly kills it for me. Most of my notes have some form of attachment. Mostly images, but PDFs and a couple of others are also in there. I’m sticking with apple notes for now. Yes, I have tried all the others and still do.
I think that on android the only really good option is probably Evernote. Not a bad option and I know it gets a lot of criticism but evernote can pretty much take anything you give it and is extremely flexible. The fact that it’s cross platform is a bonus. 
I’m pretty certain they wanted to migrate everyone over to Tasks for a bit there, I got a few reminders to import my Keep lists to it, but for some reason they were struggling with basic feature parity with Keep and it overall didn’t really make a whole lot of sense, as it just seemed to be a more complicated tool that struggled to be integrated with voice reminders.
It’s impressive to me that the same company that makes Google Maps seems to struggle so much with a basic note taking app
Which is so silly because it should be relatively obvious that people use keep for more than Tasks. But this is Google we’re talking about so nothing should surprise me.
I need to use Keep to share simple synced notes with my partner. I’ve not yet been able to find an app with feature parity. Does anyone know a good app for sharing lists?
I’ve not managed to figure out note sharing with Nextcloud Notes, and it seemed you needed to understand Markdown to get the best of it last time I used it.
Meal planner and shopping lists are a gateway drug. Next thing you know you're 30 topics deep with embedded webpages and items in a database, planning world domination one step at a time.
In all seriousness, I started using notion because I have ADHD and needed something to keep me on track then I really over did it and have lists and planning set up for most of my daily life and I share it all with my GF who uses it for all of her notes.
Yep we use Home Minis around the house for adding to the shopping list and I have Tasker on my phone open the list when it detects a supermarket WI-FI nearby.
Thing is I’ve used all sorts of open source apps, I have Pi’s around the house running some stuff, but Keep just works with minimal interference from me.
“D Notes” is very similar to Google keep but better in every aspect except that you need pro for cloud sync (with Google you pay with your data instead)
I use both. Keep is way faster to create simple notes. Additionally, it has web gui, and nice features like voice notes and text extraction. BTW, Obsidian requires a subscription if used for topics related to you work.
I created a quicknote.md in obsidian and point markor too it. This allows me to very quickly open that note in Markor, copy and paste from apps directly into that file. Then later I can decide to flesh them out in obsidian.
I’ve been using one note at work and it’s actually pretty good and allows easy cross compatible sharing with colleagues.
I’ve been wondering if it could be accomplished using ignore patterns in Syncthing to only share a specific Obsidian folder/directory and put everything shared in there. Yet, this may probably be too much friction for a grocery list and Keep will work fine while it lasts.
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