This is the new look of the Google Keep notes app
Like every Thursday, the company Google takes the opportunity to launch new versions of its applications with more tools, improvements or even visual tweaks. An appointment that has not been missed this week with its notes application Google Keep. And it still has room for improvement to meet the needs of users who want to write down all kinds of tasks, shopping lists or voice memos and photosAll this in a comfortable way and now with a few visual touches.
This is an update to Google Keep for the Android platformthat will surprise the most knowledgeable by its novelty. And it is that Google has decided to disrupt its own style lines in pursuit of comfort and utility of this app. A step that is not known whether to call forward or backward completely remove the round red floating button from the bottom corner of the application An unusual fact since it is part of the visual identity that Google has wanted to give to its own applications.
To give a little more context to this fact, we must talk about Material Design, the style that Google proposed when displaying Android 5.0 or Lollipop It is a style that bets on minimalism, with simple lines, regardless of everything superfluous such as buttons and decorative elements, and leaving everything on the background with different flat colors to differentiate menus and options.All this accompanied by animations that show where the different screens and menus of an application come from, and with an omnipresent floating button on the lower right corner from where you can access the main functions. Lines, all of them, that Google had respected in its notes application, until now.
However, this new update decides to dispense with this floating button, despite already being a characteristic element. Instead, has placed a bar and a couple of buttons at the bottom of the screen. Something that is neither more nor less than the functions that previously contained the floating button and that makes the experience of use when creating notes much more agile and comfortable A success in this aspect, but which calls into question the defended new style of Google
With this new bar all you have to do is enter the text in the box to create a quick note, or click on the line icon to create a list of elements It is also possible to press directly on the microphone to take a recording or audio, and on the camera to do the same in the form of photography Options that They were already available but now they are no longer hidden and are displayed in a simple, visible and much faster way than with the button.
In short, an update that users who have less time to waste will like, but that will attract the attention of those who are more purists due to the style and doctrines of the Google In any case, the new version of Google Keep has already begun to be distributed in stages through Google PlayIt remains completely free
