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

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 21, 2017 at 07:00 PM

I emailed Steve at Reinvented Software with a question and I also asked him about the design philosophy behind Keep It. He confirmed that it is intended to be more note-centric. Here is what he said (he gave me permission to reproduce his response here):

“Keep It puts more emphasis on notetaking, and even though it can do everything Together could as far as the document management goes, doesn’t shout about it. This is actually where Together had its roots, but back then people seemed far more interested in the document management, and I went along with it. Over the last few years that seems to have flipped, and doubtless apps like Evernote and even Apple Notes have helped there.

“All that said, a lot of Keep It’s approach is informed by the need to work more consistently across Macs and iOS. On iOS people don’t necessarily think as much in terms of files, so de-emphasizing them and taking more of a notebook approach seems much more appropriate. And really an app like Keep It should be all about looking at stuff in a different way, or you could just use the Finder.”

Steve Z.