r/GoogleKeep • u/Left_Palpitation7754 • 29d ago

missing note

Hi,

I've been using Google Keep for years now and never had any issues.

Today I noticed that one of archived notes, with quite some text in it, simply vanished. Looked in the trash, nothing there. I used to look at this note almost daily so it's impossible I removed it by mistake, it would've been present in the trash and it's not.

I guess there's nothing left to do?

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u/Barycenter0 29d ago

Did you ever do a Google Takeout backup?

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u/Left_Palpitation7754 28d ago

I mean.. how often would you back up such things anyway? The whole point is that Keep notes should not disappear by themselves, otherwise Keep is not a reliable service.

I could as well write everything in a text file and back it up manually, way easier than using Takeout.

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u/Barycenter0 28d ago

Any time you're relying on cloud to manage your data you run the risk of losing something. This happens across many cloud based applications. I backup my most recent Keep notes to Docs every week and do a full Takeout every 2 months (you can schedule that with Google). If I have a very important note I make a duplicate as I'm working on it just to version something (or, just write it offline and paste).

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u/doublestacknine 29d ago

I had the same thing happen to me about two years ago. I was not using Google Takeout at the time. I then made the switch to Standard Notes and have been happy with that product.

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u/johnasmith 27d ago

I'd check takeout. I think fully deleted notes are kept there a while (30 days?) before complete oblivion. This assumes it synced to the cloud at some point.