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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder how Tasks factor into this in the future. I use both Keep and Tasks extensively, hope they figure out a way to merge them seamlessly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

(I've stopped using both so I don't care but) please note that tasks are supposed to be the calendar tasks, which they've called reminders for a few years and now they're converting back to tasks.

Which is a good example of why I won't touch any of these Google apps anymore, not just because it's Google and I'm trying to get away but also they keep moving stuff around and it's a complete mess. They keep juggling different concepts of notes, shopping lists, todo, tasks, reminders etc.

There are plenty of other apps that choose a lane and stay in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you use in place of Keep?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Logseq is the best, imho.

There are lots of good options if you're okay with closed/proprietary software, but Logseq is open source, fully featured, in active development, and really smooth to use.

Their business model is to charge $5 USD/mo for using their cloud sync solution, but you can use any other syncing service instead just as easily. It's a small team that only gets under $50K/yr* so far, though, so please subscribe if it's useful for you.

Edit: Oh, and Logseq files are plaintext using mostly standard Markdown, so it's easy to port your data away at any time if you ever decide to migrate to something else.

* That number is just based on my napkin math of their reported subscriber numbers, with some assumptions about distribution of tiers skewing heavily to the low end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you ever found a way to make reminders in Tasks through Google Assistant actually work? When they switched from the Assistant reminders to Tasks, they became so unreliable at showing at the specified time (i.e. "remind me to do ___ at 3pm") that I can't use them anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t really use Tasks from Assistant, more from manually creating them through calendar and emails. I do use Assistant for simple timers and I don’t seem to see them in Tasks?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that seems to be a common theme. Creating timers from Assistant still works fine, but anything with Assistant that has to go through Tasks is basically broken :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ever since that switch, I've just straight up used a discord bot. Hasn't failed me yet!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You might be on to something there; I'll have to give that a look!