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I don't think Evernote need(s/ed) a team version, but I do think its not sufficiently better to current alternatives for note-taking and bookmarking. I use Pocket for tagged bookmarks and OneNote when I want more context.

Where there is a gap in the market, tying notation to memory and productivity, would be some kind of notation context and intelligent reminder (e.g these web tabs, that note, this tag) tied to some event or place where it would be useful - you're in the workshed and picking up some old project; its someone's birthday you wanted to remind them about xyz. Now that would be a genuinely useful memory aid.

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I saw a guy pitching a location based notes app years ago one morning on CNBC. I believe it was called "Acorns" (not the investment app). I was super hyped for it. Would mean the wife could just jot a note about grocery items at any point during the week and I'd get an alert whenever I got to the grocery store. Brilliant. No "don't forget milk" texts, which I forget because it's not on my actual list.

But it never launched. Or did under a new name I was unaware of. I've been waiting for location features for a long long time.

I use google keep, it has time and location based reminders. I think there is even an option to create shared note with your SO edit: yes it works :D I managed to share a note with my gf and she sees it. Now she tried to set up a reminder that will ring my phone when either of us gets close a certain groccery store that we visit

Keep is my current go to. They've added a lot to it recently, but I was unaware they've added locations. The ML predictions for grocery items when you're writing a list is a nice touch.

I'm trying to get off Google's teat, but it looks like I'm on the Keep train, until they abruptly discontinue it in 12-18 months.

This behaviour was also in Google Inbox but as they are killing it slowly other Google apps are getting it's features.

The teat is annoyingly hard to ween from! They get a lot right.

hehe I'm in the same boat... been wanting to ditch google for so long but their software is one of the best if it works / the don't discontinue it...

I know the "until they pull the plug" is a popular meme but EOL expectations for GSuite products are completely different than other Google products.

I didn't know Keep fell under the Gsuite umbrella. My concerns are mildly alleviated.

Hangouts and Google Talk used to be part of the core services of GSuite and they still got the axe.

Rebranded as "meetings" or something. But I still use Hangouts.

KolabNow Noted (and I'm sure just about any CalDav protocol supported email provider) was a perfect drop in replacement for Goo Keep for my somewhat basic needs.

OMG! I didn't know about the location reminder, and now I will be using it all the time.

If you're in the Apple ecosystem, there's an app called Grocery[1]. It uses the built-in reminders database, but does lots of excellent grocery-specific things (remembering the order of items in the store, using geofencing to know which store you've arrived at, Apple Watch support for checking items off). And, since it's just Reminders under the hood, you can tell Siri "Add Foo to my grocery list", and it works.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id1195676848?at=10l3Vy&ct=UU...

Oh man Astrid on Android used to do that and it was THE BEST. I lost that when I shifted to iOS years ago and I still miss it now and then.

> Where there is a gap in the market, tying notation to memory and productivity, would be some kind of notation context and intelligent reminder

If I were running the company, there's no way I would start chasing idea like this. I like how they used to describe the product 10 years ago - your external brain. It's an application for taking notes, not calendaring or task management.

There are lots of apps that do exactly what you are describing. I think it's a core Android features. You can say "ok google, remind me to buy eggs when I'm at the store" and it just works. I believe iOS has the same functionality.

Reminders of that sort are pretty basic; I had something more like "Now where was I?" in mind - recovering the context, or at least easing the context switch cognitive load. E.g. a task which pops out of the backlog based on your current context of being at the hardware store, to remind you to get a claw hammer, along with the why (you may have forgotten). A memory aid as a synergy of todos, note-taking and reminders basically. It also reduces the constant re-iteration and procrastination over important but not urgent items or ideas that you can push off the top of mind to your note taking app if you can trust it to bring it back at the right time and place or in the right context.

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