Google is prepping to launch a cloud-based notetaking service to compete with Evernote and Simplenote, according to a sighting by AndroidPolice. Google briefly went live with a service called Keep that appeared to be designed for ubiquitous content capture and integration with the company's cloud storage service, Drive.
Google Keep bears some similarity to the retired Google Notebook, a capturing service for collecting “research and personal notes” including text, images, and links. Notebook also allowed users to share their finds. The service was discontinued in 2009, and Evernote even offered a tool to import Google Notebooks back in the day.
Google Keep will present an interface that lets users create notes with checklist items, text, or images inside. The notes can be titled and color-coded, but little other functionality is discernible from the screenshots. TechCrunch points out that Google accidentally outed Keep last July in a Google+ screenshot that included a “save to Google Keep” option.
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