i am seriously considering migrating my hundreds of notes and recipes to notes.app because i have been having a bad feeling about keep.
you are saying the grass isn't greener on that side either? what's bad about notes.app besides lock-in and export?
Export is fine if you’re only moving a single note—it just strips formatting and shares it as plain text. Similarly, I don’t know if there’s a bulk import option. If you have a text file, you might need to copy-paste it into notes.
I don’t like it because I find it clunky and restrictive. However I wouldn’t tell someone to not try it if it seems fine to them.
What I especially like is the simplicity overall and good sync between mac/iphone/ipad.
And that it works great offline.
So if you have 1000s of notes in different folders, you're made to look through tons of irrelevant matches in different folders.
It's also somewhat clunky in syncing sometimes.
It downloads the text content of the notes and the majority of media (some of the annotation stuff doesn't work quite right). So assuming another app supports markdown import, this would work.
https://github.com/ndbeals/keep-exporter/
(note, the version in PyPI is behind and I don't have access to update it, so pull from the repository instead)
It uses gkeepapi (https://github.com/kiwiz/gkeepapi), but it looks like there's an official API now (https://developers.google.com/keep/api), so maybe Keep isn't going away anytime soon.