a welcome update but there are better open-source apps with Markdown support, like Quillpad

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Interesting, I’ll take a look before Google shuts down yet another app I use. Does it support sharing and syncing over something other than nextcloud?

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Does it support sharing and syncing over something other than nextcloud?

You can dump your notes in the form of zip files, which you could then share using any file sharing method. As for automatic syncing, the only supported syncing service is Nextcloud.

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Thanks for the suggestion 😃

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18 points

Keep is so bare-bones I wonder why I keep using it.

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It’s what I started using and now I’m stuck. Anyone know of any export tools?

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6 points

Google Takeout

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I keep using it exactly be aus sits barebones

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it’s so weird that it’s such a “simple” app, but I still couldn’t find a FOSS replacement that I like to use as much.

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I’m very happy with Nextcloud notes.

I’m using it with Obsidian on my computer though, so not entirely open source all the way, but there’s plenty of good open source markdown editors out there.

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I’m not a fan of Nextcloud in general tbh, but using markdown is a great plus over G Keep. What bothers me most about all the options I’ve tried is that they are always clunkier to do quick edits on the phone compared to Keep. Especially when it comes to checklists.

In fact if I find a promising project as base I might be willing to contribute to it myself these days. Memos might be this project.

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Quillpad is the most direct alternative. Though I’m sad it won’t allow indenting list items in a checklist, I really love that feature

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Started reading title and immediately thought “oh google closing another service” luckily it’s just an update

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Honestly I don’t understand what Google gains from keeping it running. It’s not like you can use it to train an AI very well

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You think they’re not training their own AI from our notes?

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Oh no, I fully expect them to be, I just think that tiny post-its of contextless information must make for a very noisy (ie. useless) dataset. I guess you could gague product popularity or something if people keep their shopping lists on there…

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Is there an easy way to backup notes to something else?

I rely on notes for storing random stuff and that’s made me lazy. So I worry that I should be backing them away somewhere else.

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Keep is one of those apps stopping me from degoogling. Very handy for syncing shopping 🛒 lists between family members

Edit: Found quillpad from this thread. UI is a clone of Google keep. Can sync notes with nextcloud. Syncing is bit buggy though.

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For real.I was looking but couldn’t find any alternative that would function the same.

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Carnet is what I replaced it with, self hosted or it can be entirely local on device. But it isn’t perfect to say the least.

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I just tried quillpad on fdroid, it is pretty good if you want to avoid using google service and use self hosted nextcloud to sync your notes

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Syncthing is a fantastic option for syncing files across devices, I use it with Obsidian

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I’m hoping for an option to pw protect certain notes. Currently my method is: write the note, take a screenshot, put screenshot into locked folder, delete the note. Would be nice if I could avoid all that.

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You could look into cryptomator for that. It encrypts a certain folder and you can only view content through its app.

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Hey Quillpad is great! Thanks for the suggestion. Keep is one of those small google apps that ‘just works’ so I’ve expecting them to get rid of it or something. Wish there was a way to export from Keep into Quillpad and we’d be good.

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Looks just like Carnet for Nextcloud

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