The Android App is beautiful! While Android App is beautiful the web version is very poor both visually and in functionality. The android app allows reordering of notes and colouring of notes which are all missing in the web based version. My preference would be to improve the UI on both Android and Web before introducing new features.
New features introduced will determine the route Google Keep wants to take. If Keep was intended to be a very simple note taking app, further features are limited. If Keep wants to go the Evernote way, they can use Google Docs and merge them with Keep to create a note taking suite. If this is the route Google decides to take, the trick is how to keep it a simple note taking app while introducing further features which might be slightly hidden away.
Route (1) would be to add a bit more features but keep them hidden at face value. It is kept as the current basic Sticky Notes app, with more editing and formatting options once you go a level deeper.
Route (2) there can be a mix between Sticky Notes and a full note taking app. They could be separate but in the same app. Sticky Notes could show all the notes/lists on the cards, while the full notes show a snippet with no colouring options.
Between the two options, (2) is the easiest to implement and my preferred solution. If Google does it well, I don't see any reason why they can't compete with Evernote. Evernote has been stuck in the same place for a few years on the desktop and web versions and it doesn't look like anything is going to change soon. In addition Evernote website is sometimes very slow to load both the note taking interface and shared notes.
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