‘Google Keep’ Revealed in Drive Source Code, Is a Note-taking Service in the works?

Once again Google Drive’s website source code is giving away secrets to new and upcoming apps. 1E100 discovered references to an app codenamed “Memento”, and the icon above in the image.

This icon looks like it falls right in-line with Google’s other Drive app icons. Some of you may remember Google’s first less-than-successful attempt at a note-taking app called “Google Notebook”, and it looks like they are going to give it another shot. Let’s hope that this time around they do it right. Competing with the likes of Evernote, Colornote, MobileNotes, Catch Notes, and GNotes, will be no easy task, and Google will really have to “bring it” to compete in this area.

Further source code reveals the possibility of an actual Google Play Store app. This is not the norm for Drive apps, but 1E100 found that http://g.co/keep redirects to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.keep. So this Drive app may prove to be more connected than ever to your Android smartphone and tablet. One user was even able to download the app, but 20 minutes later it was removed. Here are some screenshots…