 Hey guys, it's David with The Verge and 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 there are really two different ways to see your notes right now. There's the stream like this where everything is 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 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. 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 the same things, 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, it's 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'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.
 Hey guys, it's David with The Verge and 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 there are really two different ways to see your notes right now.
 There's the stream like this where everything is 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 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.
 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 the same things, 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, it's 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'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.