NoteRiot: The Dapp Alternative to Google Keep

I’m getting on well with NoteRiot, part of the Blockstack ecosystem and feeling better about security.

There is a way out of castle Google it seems, and it can start through the keep — or Google Keep — that app which has been so handy for all my sticky notes, reminders, doodles etc.

But why find and use these alternatives to Google Keep, Google Docs, Evernote, Microsoft Sticky Notes…? Why remove all those currently neat — and potentially future — integrations with Google Docs, Google Home, Chrome etc.etc?

Well… because of security, longevity… This gets important if you’re saving security information, cryptocurrency keys, passwords, private notes in there (and let’s face it: many of us do).

The difference is like a storage locker. At Google, an engineer potentially has access to all your information. Or there could be an outage at Google. Or a data center breach. Or changes to subscriptions and features. Or ads suddenly start appearing.

And the importance of this relates to where we store all our passwords, crypto keys, log-in information and private reminders. One of the easiest tools — but by no means the most secure — is to use Google Keep. We bring up a sticky note stored on the cloud and copy/paste your private mnemonic, password, or private keys for easy…