"Keep It" -- replacement for Together -- in beta

Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 21, 2017 at 04:00 PM

I’ve gained access to the Keep It iOS beta app—anyone can request access, FWIW.

The older Together Mobile app has been removed from the iOS App Store—but is still available from your “Purchased” library if you ever had a copy of it previously. Good to look at both for comparison.

The new app interface, so far, looks like the old app with new icons. It can edit plain text, RTF, and markdown notes. Make new notes, import (via iOS Share Sheets) or sync via iCloud with the desktop. Many markdown editors offer a toolbar with common markdown shortcut (headers, lists, etc.). Keep It does not offer that kind of toolbar, as yet. For that matter, neither does DEVONthink. In fact the interface and editing seems similar to DEVONthink’s overall. Keep It iOS does not, as yet, offer PDF annotation.

I think the mobile app is more a file hub than a place to do intensive editing or writing or annotation work. Keep It iOS is a file provider in iOS document provider (iOS 9 and above), and will open documents from other document providers. Which I think a better strategy than trying to be a new entrant to the iOS editors feature race. Especially with iOS 11’s Files app coming along soon. Probably be able to drag files to / from Keep It iOS from other iOS apps
An advantage (for some) over DEVONthink to Go is Keep It iOS does on-demand sync via iCloud of your database(s).