Siri will then create a corresponding reminder in the Reminders app in iOS. Remind me about this at 2pm today”, for example. Next, with the newly created note open, one can say, “Hey Siri. However, I recently found that one can use Siri to set a reminder for a note created in Notes. This happens to be an extremely useful feature, and for the longest time, this appeared to be the one “gotta have” feature that would keep me using Keep. Google Keep has the ability to attach a reminder directly to any note.
#COLOR NOTE VS GOOGLE KEEP PASSWORD#
Keep does not appear to offer the ability to password protect a note. In the browser, notes can be unlocked by providing the password. On the iPhone, password protected notes can be unlocked with Touch ID / Face ID. That said, one of the key features that sets Notes apart is that individual notes taken in Notes can be password protected. I know that Google has been known to kill popular apps, and I know that Apple could change direction with Notes and iCloud at any point they so choose, but I would rather use something like Notes or Keep than a smaller app like Simplenote or Bear. I know this might sound strange, but if I am going to be syncing my notes to the cloud, I want to ensure that cloud is robust and will be there for some time to come. Both are backed by big corporations and sync to their respective clouds. In terms of what I feel are “must have” features, the two applications do share quite a few. Both are kind of “bare bones”, if you will, but that is exactly what I look for in a note taking application. Keep and iOS Notes (just referred to as Notes from here on out) have a very similar feature set. It's skeumorphic, but not overtly skeumorphic. However, there is a subtle paper like background in Notes that I really like.
It is also my opinion that Keep has better typography. In this way, Keep is slightly easier on the eyes. While both having icons with a significant amount of yellow in them, iOS Notes actually uses more yellow within the app itself. Both applications are well designed in that regard, with very similar color schemes. Could it be that iOS Notes is better than Google Keep? I just had to find out.īoth applications are easy enough to use and provide a low barrier of entry to actually getting notes on the page. If a founder and CEO of two giant corporations can run things only using his phone and using the stock Apple Notes app on that phone, it must mean that Apple's native notes app has made some vast improvements since its skeuomorphic days in earlier versions of iOS. This inspired me to re-examine iOS Notes. His extensive use of the native notes application on his phone, iOS Notes, is one of the things that empowers him to eliminate a laptop or a tablet from his workflow. However, I recently came across a few articles about Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and how he uses only an iPhone to run both Twitter and Square. In fact, when I moved back to iOS in July of last year, I deleted Apple's default iOS Notes app and continued to use Google Keep.
#COLOR NOTE VS GOOGLE KEEP ANDROID#
I briefly switched over to Microsoft's OneNote for a short time when I had a Windows phone, but once I switched back to Android thereafter, I migrated all my notes back into Google Keep. Additionally, Google has added some useful features to Keep over time, including but not limited to voice recording, drawing, and importing photos. Keep is a relatively simple app, and not only does it have the ability to sync between all of my devices, it is also free. Back in 2013, shortly after making the switch from iOS to Android, I began using Google Keep as my note taking app of choice.
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