Nov 2023 Google launches Notes on Search
Jul 2024 Google kills Notes on Search (8 months)
Jan 2025 I go to export my notes via Takeout...
The export window had already closed. My notes are just... gone.
Notes taken out by Google.
No Takeout.
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The irony that writes itself:
2023-11 → Google launches "Notes on Search"
2024-07 → Google kills Notes on Search
2024-07 → Users told to export via Takeout
2025-01 → We build tool to find dead products in Takeout
...meta.
"Part obituary, part invoice." 💀
Google Hospice: We'll tell you when it's time.
The only Google product that tracks Google products dying.
Meanwhile, in Cupertino...
iOS 26 encrypts your visited places on-device.
Your location history. Yours alone.
No Takeout needed when there's nothing to take out. 🍎