Re: Pink circle on Home screen (Solved?)

Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:

Keep is nice and quick to use. OneNote is more 'professional'.
Another dilemma for me :)

I use OneNote.  While it has a widget to add to a screen for quick
access, I just add it to the home touch buttons (aka navbar) at the
bottom of the screen (*).

  (*) Actually, my phone (LG V20) has 2 navbars: the typical one at the
  bottom, and a separate off-screen navbar at the top to add more
  shortcuts.  While I use OneNote, its use is nowhere near as often as
  Phone, Messages, web browser, or camera that are in the bottom navbar,
  so OneNote goes into the scrollable top navbar in my setup.  Of
  course, I could put a shortcut or widget to OneNote on any "home"
  screen (Android now calls all screens the home screens instead of the
  default one being the home screen), and scroll through the screens. 

I like OneNote lets me encrypt my notes.  Alas, I can only encrypt by
section (within a notebook), not on an entire notebookd.  The encryption
is local, so the data is encrypted before it gets uploaded.  I can
access the data using their web client, or another OneNote client
connecting to the same account, but only after entering the password
(which is different than the login to the account).  The data is
encrypted before transport.  Of course, how secure depends on how strong
and long is the encryption string.  While none of my accounts have been
hacked (I use a strong and long password that is unique to every
domain), a family member did.  Having the cloud copy of your data
encrypted (using a different string than login) adds another hurdle to
the hacker.  Of course, using login credentials that are unique to every
domain eliminates a hacker invading all your accounts across multiple
online services.

I checked, and OneNote does have the draw-over permission.  However, I
don't remember ever seeing it used.  I don't see anything of OneNote
until I choose.  OneNote does have its sticky notes feature, but I've
never used it.  I'm not into desktop/screen clutter.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/see-your-sticky-notes-on-other-devices-and-the-web-cf4bacd0-c042-46fd-9077-ca8c82dc0236#ID0EBBF=Android_phone
"Note: You cannot currently have Sticky Notes stay on top of other
applications."

Yet that comment (before selecting the OS platform) seems oriented
toward the Windows version.  If you're into cluttering your screen(s),
see if OneNote's sticky notes are doable.

As I recall, Google has deprecated Keep, and will discontinue it to
replace with their Notes & Lists app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.keep

Notice the package name ends with ".keep".  Since I don't use it, I have
not investigate on the user data is secured, if at all, or how, or at
which endpoint (client or server).