Excellent news for Android-toting Google Preserve customers: you’re lastly getting the textual content formatting choices the app has so desperately wanted for years. Google introduced this week that the power to daring, italicize, and in any other case remodel textual content in your notes is rolling out now, and you must begin to see it within the app quickly. (I don’t have it but, however Mishaal Rahman and some others truly spotted the feature forward of its official launch, so it appears to be coming quick.)
The brand new Preserve options are extra within the “ought to have been right here all alongside” class than they’re shiny new issues, however they’re nonetheless a welcome addition to the app. And really, Google has been paying an uncommon quantity of consideration to Preserve not too long ago: customers acquired a brand new homescreen widget earlier this yr, and now you can open a number of Preserve home windows at a time in your machine. Google’s additionally slowly rolling out version history so you’ll be able to see all of the modifications you’ve made to your notes over time.
Preserve is, in case you didn’t already know, a superb note-taking app. It’s quick, obtainable on Android, iOS, and the online, and it manages to be each very simple and fairly intelligent. Paste a hyperlink right into a be aware, and the cardboard reformats as a wealthy preview so precisely what it’s. A single-line be aware simply appears to be like like a Submit-it, however an extended be aware appears to be like extra like a doc. You’ll be able to attract a be aware; you’ll be able to file audio in a be aware; you’ll be able to set reminders in a be aware! And since it is a Google product we’re speaking about, it’s all searchable and accessible within the sidebar of a bunch of different Google merchandise.
The massive drawback with Preserve is that its future appears tenuous. It doesn’t get a lot consideration or many function upgrades — the app is a full 10 years outdated, and that is perhaps its largest replace ever! You’re by no means going to see some lengthy speech on the I/O developer convention about how nice Preserve is and all of the cool stuff you are able to do with it. That makes customers moderately frightened that Google would possibly at any second kill the app, because it has so many others, as a part of some cost-cutting or refocusing initiative. Preserve does many issues higher than Docs, however Docs is way extra more likely to nonetheless be round just a few years from now.
That’s why it’s good to see Google proceed to recollect Preserve exists, simply because it has appeared to additionally bear in mind this yr that Duties exists. (Now, Google, make Preserve reminders present up in Duties. It’s proper there!) The formatting choices will presumably be obtainable on the net and iOS sooner or later, and so they make Preserve much more highly effective on prime of that straightforward interface. Preserve stays top-of-the-line note-taking apps on Android, and normally, and hopefully it stays that manner.
