Gather ’round, kiddos — ’cause it’s time for a story. Once upon a time, Chrome was a lean, mean browsing machine. It was the scrappy lightweight kid in a block filled with clunky old blobs of blubber.

I finally realized that Google Docs isn’t the best note-taking app. It’s too clunky for quickly jotting down notes about a project or interesting things I come across throughout the day. So, I went to ...