Google Keep

After playing with Keep for a few days, here’s my brief brain dump about it:

The design is gorgeous!
It’s oh-so-fast! Using the widget, it’s near instantaneous to hit the the Record button, and be recording a new note that gets transcribed with barely an error. Compared to Evernote, which takes a couple seconds to get up and running with a new note.
It’s already integrated with Google Now. Just say “Google, note to self…”, and blam-o.
I use the widget as a super simple reminder system. I’m terrible with todos, but occasionally need to remember to do a simple action when I get home, or when I wake up. The widget helps show me this reminders.
It integrates with Drive, so you should be able to write and store decent notes or photos, and find them again.
There’s FUD about Google potentially shuttering Keep in the future, and while that may happen, I’m not too worried. It’s part of Drive, which is a for-pay product, like Dropbox. Plus, if they still decide to close it down, you can access all your files from Drive just like a normal file system. Drive can sync to your computer, so all your files are still there.
Android was in need of a default note/reminder app, and this fills it.
I look forward to the things Google could add to Keep to integrate even more with the Google eco-system. Like some of these suggestions from David Pierce: