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Good news for Android-toting Google Keep users: you’re finally getting the text formatting options the app has so desperately needed for years.

Google announced this week that the ability to bold, italicize, and otherwise transform text in your notes is rolling out now, and you should start to see it in the app soon.

(I don’t have it yet, but Mishaal Rahman and a few others actually spotted the feature ahead of its official launch, so it seems to be coming fast.)

And actually, Google has been paying an unusual amount of attention to Keep recently: users got a new homescreen widget earlier this year, and you can now open multiple Keep windows at a time on your device.

That makes users reasonably worried that Google might at any moment kill the app, as it has so many others, as part of some cost-cutting or refocusing initiative.

The formatting options will presumably be available on the web and iOS at some point, and they make Keep even more powerful on top of that simple interface.

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Exportable markdown or it doesn't matter

I'm pretty certain they wanted to migrate everyone over to Tasks for a bit there, I got a few reminders to import my Keep lists to it, but for some reason they were struggling with basic feature parity with Keep and it overall didn't really make a whole lot of sense, as it just seemed to be a more complicated tool that struggled to be integrated with voice reminders.

It's impressive to me that the same company that makes Google Maps seems to struggle so much with a basic note taking app

Little too late, switched to Obsidian and haven't looked back.

I find keep terrifically useful. But it is not supported by Google Takeout, so when they turn it off, I'd lose everything. I'm currently trying out sNotz from f-droid as a replacement.

Obsidian is quite nice. No Boilerplate did a nice video on some of the cool capabilities of it.

No interest in styling, I have docs for that. Big features I'm missing are:

• single-note 1x1 shortcut widget (not the full single note widget -- which is nice! But not a simple homescreen 1x1 link to a specific note),

• better management for pictures attached to a note (brightness/contrast/crop, re-sorting them, etc).

• Copy-paste for checklists. How is that not a thing?

• bring back letting me use google Assistant to add stuff to my Keep shopping list.

I really wish they didn't have to kill third party integration with smart speakers for this. Google bait and switch at its finest.

Yay basic formatting.

Keep should have had MarkDown support from the start

I really enjoy this Google app it is my current one

In the FOSS world, Carnet is at parity IMHO and can import Keep notes.

I need to use Keep to share simple synced notes with my partner. I've not yet been able to find an app with feature parity. Does anyone know a good app for sharing lists?

Ah, so we have about 6 months to a year before they abruptly kill it off.

Their last update to the home screen widget ruined the styling and usability of it. Made all the controls and notes take up a ton more space by turning them into big dumb child buttons, leaving way less room for actual content. I switched to Zoho notes.

Don't care. Switched to Joplin and it's so much better, it's not even funny.

Is there a way to mod the app to make it easier to export files and make the documents accessible from the file explorer?

I have always wanted to use keep as my main note-taking app, but no import option and not being to store most attachments mostly kills it for me. Most of my notes have some form of attachment. Mostly images, but PDFs and a couple of others are also in there. I’m sticking with apple notes for now. Yes, I have tried all the others and still do.