{"id":1079,"date":"2013-03-20T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2013-03-20T22:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:06:23","slug":"google-keep-google-reader-and-trusting-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/20\/google-keep-google-reader-and-trusting-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Keep, Google Reader and Trusting the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today Google released a new note-taking and to-do application called Keep.  New Google tools are always interesting, but this one should particularly interest me as I\u2019ve used OneNote, and to a lesser extent Evernote, for years now.  I\u2019ve got a huge amount of notes and diagrams stashed away, and having it all in one place in a single app that lets me organise and search it is genuinely useful.<\/p>\n

So why has Keep left me in two minds?  On the face of it Keep looks like a great little app, the video above shows roughly what it looks like and does \u2013 nice eh?  I use Google Apps for my mail and other stuff so it should be perfect\u2026 <\/p>\n

And yet Google\u2019s recent retirement of it\u2019s Reader application has left me with questions.  Every year Google has a spring clean, announcing the closure of a few tools or apps with a few months notice.  The first big one was Google Wave, and last week they announced Reader was on its way out, but they are just two of many.  Each will have had enthusiastic users left out in the cold, Reader more than most I imagine.<\/p>\n

The ease with which Google has turned off Reader does beg the question of whether investing time and information into Keep is going to be worth it.  Sure its free, but there are other free note-taking apps out there.  Evernote is the obvious one, they\u2019re successful enough to rely on and its their core business \u2013 they\u2019re probably not going to turn it off.<\/p>\n

Maybe I\u2019m stuck in the past, thinking back to the days when you had applications on dvd\u2019s that will always work\u2026 but I also see the huge value of the dynamic development the cloud apps bring.  IMHO if the likes of Google are going to keep the trust they\u2019ve earned from their customers they\u2019ll need to start being more open about product lifecycles and support policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google keep looks great, but with google reader falling to a sping clean can cloud apps be trusted with your data?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[45,21,508,507],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-cloud","tag-google","tag-keep","tag-reader","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}