When you open Keep again, you don’t sort through a bunch of folders: everything is either staring you in the face or it’s archived. You don’t have to sort through a bunch of options: just write down whatever’s on your mind.
Keep is minimal compared to the other options, but that’s part of the beauty.
Keep goes one step further for voice recordings: you can have them automatically transcribed into text. You can also record your voice, insert a drawing, or add a collaborator from your contacts. As for the notes themselves, you can make a checklist, a drawing or a doodle, or just type in plain text. Keep lets you color code your notes, pin important stuff to the top of your list, and archive notes that you don’t want to see every day. You can read your notes on any device with the Google Keep app ( iOS, Android, or Chrome extension) or by visiting the Google Keep web-page. Keep syncs all your notes to your Google account, so you know it’s backed up. Google Keep is my personal favorite since I use the rest of Google’s services-but even if you’re not all-in on Google’s ecosystem, it’s worth taking a look at Keep.