{"id":213362,"date":"2026-02-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/i-thought-google-keep-was-enough-until-i-tried-this-open-source-app\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:05:08","slug":"i-thought-google-keep-was-enough-until-i-tried-this-open-source-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/i-thought-google-keep-was-enough-until-i-tried-this-open-source-app\/","title":{"rendered":"I thought Google Keep was enough, until I tried this open source app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-thought-google-keep-enough-until-i-tried-open-source-app\/\">I thought Google Keep was enough, until I tried this open source app<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-thought-google-keep-enough-until-i-tried-open-source-app\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-thought-google-keep-enough-until-i-tried-open-source-app\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-14 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google Keep has been my default scratchpad for years. It\u2019s good enough for grocery lists, reminders, and quick notes.<\/p>\n<p>Logseq is the opposite. It\u2019s open source, local-first, and built around daily journals. It\u2019s a thinking tool for people who enjoy structure.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded it expecting to experiment with it for writing. I didn\u2019t expect it to touch my Keep workflow.<\/p>\n<p>But over time, I noticed that I wasn\u2019t reaching for Keep as often. Without planning to, I ended up shifting a significant part of my note-taking into an app I originally installed to try.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how that shift happened, and how I actually use Logseq in practice.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tGoogle Keep is the most underrated focus app on Android \u2014 here&#8217;s how I use it to stay organized<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Its simplicity is why it works<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"i-stuck-with-google-keep-for-years-but-it-started-feeling-limiting\">\n                        I stuck with Google Keep for years, but it started feeling limiting<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>                                  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-thought-google-keep-enough-until-i-tried-open-source-app\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Google Keep was enough, until I tried this open source app https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-thought-google-keep-enough-until-i-tried-open-source-app\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/logseq-logo-in-front-of-the-google-keep-logo-with-checklists-a-flowchart-and-flashcards-around.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-213362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213364,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213362\/revisions\/213364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}