Google notes apps keep can't beat Evernote for 6 reasons

Since Google Notes application keep online, people have speculated that Evernote will face a huge threat. However, Mario Anquila (Mario Aguilar), a Gizmodo contributor to foreign science and technology websites, believes that because keep has 6 deficiencies, it cannot defeat the popular Evernote in a short time. The following is the full text of the article:

Keep is an ultra lightweight online note application that Google describes as an online tool to replace traditional post-it notes. Using it, users can easily and conveniently gather all kinds of inspiration into one place. Even though keep has just been launched, it still lacks many of the most basic features. Thanks to these basic features, Evernote has brought a pleasant experience of use.

Keep lacks a good sharing function

Evernote has a variety of social network sharing options, and Google keep seems to be built for a single user. While people can use keep to collect ideas, the only solution seems to be to copy and paste a single path at the end of the page, when you need to share text, links, and pictures. When users want to communicate with their friends, this undoubtedly brings great inconvenience.

The Android Keep app allows users to share notes, but it still doesn't match Evernote, compared to the web end. In Evernote, a user can generate a public link to a note and share it with their friends, ensuring that everyone gets a consistent experience. In Android clients, emails, Facebook posts, Twitter tweets, keep can only send their notes as a whole, unable to generate public links like Google Docs.

Keep difficult to save web address

After installing the browser plug-in, it is easy to collect the page fragments from the accompanying address in Evernote. As long as the user selects the text, click on the button, a note containing the current URL can be automatically generated, and the content is the highlighted section of the user selected.

Not only Evernote, other Instapaper, Pinterest and other network services can also provide similar functionality. In this way, users in the keep can not achieve the same purpose is particularly prominent. At the end of the page, the only way the latter collects links is still copy and paste. Therefore, after saving the page fragment, records the corresponding website to need the additional operation, has brought the considerable inconvenience to the user.

Interestingly, keep's Android clients are doing relatively well in this area. In most Android apps, the "Share ..." option is available on the system's built-in menu, and the Keep client sends a screenshot of the current screen with the accompanying URL and title. In a desktop system, keep does not achieve the same function through browser extensions or smart tags, which is confusing.

Keep can't pour into network picture

To insert a picture on the Internet in your notes, the user can only download it locally and upload it to the Keep Web page. Like tens of thousands of other Web applications, the user input image URL can automatically import the corresponding picture, is keep really should achieve the ideal way.

Keep does not support rich-text format content

Perhaps considering that the cloud drive has the ability to edit Rich text documents, Google only allows you to customize the background color of your notes in Keep. While this makes keep look more like a traditional convenience sticker under the Android client, supporting more text formats will undoubtedly bring higher value.

Keep notes lack of effective management options

In Evernote, users can classify various kinds of information into different notebooks and label them. In keep, sorting by creation time is the only way to manage your notes. Faced with the lack of management of a large amount of notes, users are difficult to achieve real effective use, which is keep to solve an important problem.

Keep cannot be used offline

Both Evernote and keep's Google Cloud drive have local applications. With local clients, users can continue to work in an environment that lacks internet connectivity. On the Keep, users need to stay online for a long time.

Summary: Keep looks beautiful but has limited functionality

It should be said that Google Keep and Evernote are completely different species, they are good at a variety of aspects, the former is like the simplest notepad. But the user will soon find that the Keep card Notepad function is very limited. Perhaps from light and fast, Google has not implemented many of the most basic features in Keep. But it also makes the current keep look more like a product that has not been fully developed yet. But if Google wants keep to develop over the long term, it must transplant some of the basic features of its own application.