So I’ve been using Google keep for 4 years now. I’m a heavy user. Some days, I spend 10–12 hours on Google Keep.

I like Google Keep because of its simplicity and reliability.

But there haven’t been any visible changes in Google Keep for a long time. I’d honestly be ready to pay a few dollars ($4–5) every month if I could get some new features.

Features I want

1. Better search
2. More labels (no cap)
3. Smaller grids (so it’s possible to see 30–40 notes at once)
4. Nested folders/categories. For example: Business folder (main)
   • Business questions
   • Business execution
   • Office insights
   • Product management questions
   • Design questions
   • etc.

I don’t really need anything else at the moment.

I was thinking that replicating Google Keep for my own needs wouldn’t be that hard.

But while replicating it, a lot of developers miss the things that make Google Keep good:

1. Simplicity (no headache or slowness like Notion)
2. Extremely fast
3. Reliability

I’ve been building software for 5 years now. I can probably build a usable product in 2 weeks. But building something when no one is using it feels shitty.

How many of you are fed up with Google Keep and want a tool like this?

I’ll be honest - I would copy the Google Keep web UI because, in my opinion, they’ve already cracked it. It’s just so simple and easy to use.

List down your frustrations with Google Keep and the kind of features you want.

I’m not interested in building RAG, graph systems, AI memory for notes, etc. There are already too many note-taking apps in the market. None of them solve my actual problem, so those second-layer features are out of the conversation for now.

Also, would you be willing to pay around $1–2 per month? I’d need a VPS to host the backend.