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fragmede
Google's not going to deprecate Keep, but if they do, you can be sure there'll be a deprecation schedule and many export tools written with a lot of gnashing of teeth. It's not going to suddenly disappear on you.
petee
Not sure why you're so confident in Google, they don't have the track record. At best you'll maybe get a year notice. If it doesn't actively generate money there is little incentive for them keep things around
fragmede
At best a year? That's plenty of time!
wahidislam
from a android user's perspective i used to use google keep all the time before i got privacy concerned and I still see a whole lot of people from my friends and family using google keep. I can assume it's true for a large quantity. I don't think a company like google would stop this type of service where they can get a large amount of personal data users just leave opened.
lazide
I’ve never seen a Google product with users disappear without plenty of notice. Takeout has a pretty easy to extract format for keep too.

It doesn’t make it on the list of likely targets for me personally.

haunter
Now that you write this I fully expect that they shutdown Keep in the next couple of months
Erratic6576
Standard notes is FOSS E2EE and can be SH
saltymug76
It looks like you still need to subscribe for a premium account if you self host to unlock even checklists unless I'm wrong? $40 a year to self host seems a bit steep.
CurrentB
Markor+syncthing
rlpb
+Zim for desktop integration (Markor supports Zim's text markup format)
iaaan
Surprised to see Obsidian not being the top recommendation, I switched to it recently and am loving it. I use SyncThing to sync my notes between all my devices for free.
remram
No self-hostable sync.
danstewart_
You can use obsidian to just edit files on disk and handle syncing yourself (eg. With Nextcloud, syncthing, Dropbox)
gregopet
The company explicitly says you can sync obsidian notes by yourself if you so wish. They offer a paid version but under the same conditions as everybody else. I also use SyncThing like the other person who replied and it works great. I really dig Obsidian.
remram
If you have to sync by yourself, every text editor is "close to Google keep".
seized
SyncThing works very well for Obsidian and is completely self hostable.

Although SyncThing on iOS isn't as nice as on Android.

jaredhallen
I use Carnet with Nextcloud. It's not perfect, but I've found it to be serviceable. My biggest gripe is that I can't do indented checklists.
magnuznilzzon
Me too, I just wish there was a way to see the notes on desktop as well
simne
I use combination of tools.

Write notes with some android wysiwyg editor, in text format;

Edit on desktop with notepad++;

on my linux setup gitosys with keys, so could exchange with git;

on android installed, what current work as cli interface with ssh and git, and just when need turn on network and do git commit; git fetch; git push; git merge, etc.