I organize my Obsidian around this concept, separating out different streams for different domains of content I'm interested in. Social, AI, Antilibrary, Wisdom, generic Inbox, and my own Passing Thoughts and Story Prompts.
I treat each of these streams as an input to growing my understanding & thinking in these domains, much like a stream of water nourishes plants around it. It's a big unlock to do things this way, because it treats inputs as opportunities not tasks. Different streams flow at different rates based on where my initial interests lie and based on interesting things happening in the world.
Sort of biomimicry in action in the intellectual realm
If all you need is a short term cache of ephemeral things that won't matter in a year, Google Keep is probably fine.
If you want something that you invest in that stores thoughts and ideas that you want to go back to later, I'd use something far more reliable. I'd look at:
* Whether the product is a revenue driver for the company
* Whether the company has a history of good behavior
* Whether the company seems like they care about their users & making a good product
* Whether you have control over the data, including an open file format
Personally I wouldn't touch Keep because none of the above apply.
I switched from Keep to Obsidian as well. It depends on your goals. For me, I was saving things in Keep that I wanted to have forever and I don't trust Google to operate the service forever. The exported data is also not super portable. And there are things I want to save that I don't want on a cloud service. So I switched to Obsidian which gives me a simple and portable file format, privacy, and I trust myself to keep those files safe more than I trust Google.
I treat each of these streams as an input to growing my understanding & thinking in these domains, much like a stream of water nourishes plants around it. It's a big unlock to do things this way, because it treats inputs as opportunities not tasks. Different streams flow at different rates based on where my initial interests lie and based on interesting things happening in the world.
Sort of biomimicry in action in the intellectual realm