The Messy Productivity Chaos of Google Keep (And Why It Works for Me)

Lately I've been more reflective, pro-active... Well, I'll stop bragging now. What I mean by that is: notes were and are very important for me. Previously, I mostly used Notion. I like its structure and page nesting, but it was too slow for my taste and had its quirks. Now - I embraced total chaos. If you used Google Keep - you know what I mean. At work I use Apple Notes on MacOS (and I've used it on an iPhone when I had it). It's a complete opposite of Google Keep - it's pretty clean (it's not perfect too, but not bad). I wish I could use that, but I can't - I'm on Android/Windows. So I'm pretty much stuck with taming this wild beast of an app (let's hope Google doesn't kill it or break it). And it actually works. Despite how it looks - like a messy room of a "creative" art student. Still better than trying to use Saved Messages, (this is just insanity), though I haven't given up that habit to jot down quick notes. Sometimes I de-load the stuff from Google Keep to a Trello board, but otherwise Trello doesn't quite work for day to day stuff. I'm not in any way saying that Google Keep is king of productivity. What I mean that it surprisingly works despite its flaws. It's crazy simple too. Google Keep forces me to push my ideas fast - turn a note into a blog post or a tweet or delete it. Same with everything else - act on it or archive it (out of sight, out of mind). Also, I haven't found a fast, bug-free, cross-platform Notion alternative (it should also be cheap or better yet, free). Evernote is probably dying, in coma or on life support OneNote was created by aliens or lizards (Bill Gates?) Obsidian has paid Sync and no web version (but it's kinda cool either way, I admit)