06 Nov Is This the End of the Google Keep Chrome Extension?

I’ve been using Google Keep for nearly all of my bookmarking for the last half-dozen years or more. It nicely syncs my bookmarks, notes, and reminders between my phone and any computer that I use when logged into my Chrome profile. Unfortunately, my days of using Chrome as my primary bookmarking tool may be coming to an end in December. 

Last week I started to notice a little warning appear whenever I bookmarked a site with the Google Keep Chrome extension. The warning reads, 

“starting on December 5th, 2022, notes created here will not save automatically. You will also have to access and edit existing notes associated with a URL via Keep.” 

Other than that little note appearing when using the Chrome extension, so far I haven’t been able to find any official statements from Google about this change. If Google really is discontinuing support for the Keep Chrome extension, that will probably be the end of using it for bookmarking and I’ll migrate to using OneNote for all bookmarking. 

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time that Google has ended support for a bookmarking tools that was popular with teachers. Some of us still fondly remember Google Notebook and the disappointment we felt when Google terminated that product back in 2009. Fortunately, there are plenty of other options for online bookmarking including the aforementioned OneNote, EverNote, and the native bookmarking tool in Chrome. 

Even if this is the end of bookmarking with Keep, I’ll probably still use the Keep Android app for creating location-based reminders for myself. 

I’ve been using Google Keep for nearly all of my bookmarking for the last half-dozen years or more. It nicely syncs my bookmarks, notes, and reminders between my phone and any computer that I use when logged into my Chrome profile. Unfortunately, my days of using Chrome as my primary bookmarking tool may be coming to an end in December. Last week I started to notice a little warning appear whenever I bookmarked a site with the Google Keep Chrome extension. The warning reads, “starting on December 5th, 2022, notes created here will not save automatically. You will also have to access and edit existing notes associated with a URL via Keep.” Other than that little note appearing when using the Chrome extension, so far I haven’t been able to find any official statements from Google about this change. If Google really is discontinuing support for the Keep Chrome extension, that will probably be the end of using it for bookmarking and I’ll migrate to using OneNote for all bookmarking. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time that Google has ended support for a bookmarking tools that was popular with teachers. Some of us still fondly remember Google Notebook and the disappointment we felt when Google terminated that product back in 2009. Fortunately, there are plenty of other options for online bookmarking including the aforementioned OneNote, EverNote, and the native bookmarking tool in Chrome. Even if this is the end of bookmarking with Keep, I’ll probably still use the Keep Android app for creating location-based reminders for myself. 
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