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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
