Taking Notes with Google Notebook
I often take notes. Sometimes I take notes on paper, but that is mostly in meetings or when I am not at a computer. I find that pen and paper works great for jotting down a few action items during a meeting or for a few things I need to remember. But when I am at a computer, I need something more. I need something that is always ready, and something that I can use on any computer. Google Notebook is the tool I have been looking for.
Google Notebook is a website that allows you to clip text and images from any web page. Google Notebook gives you multiple notebooks. Each notebook contains notes or web clippings. You can add comments to your clips. You can edit notes, add or remove notes, reorder notes, share notes, label notes, etc.
I have used Google Notebook to track ideas for this blog, for noting things I encounter on web pages (like interesting quotations), and sometimes even as a clipboard for copying text between computers.
Google has developed some Google Notebook browser extensions for Firefox and Internet Explorer. I have used the Firefox extension. It adds an “Open Notebook” link in the bottom right corner of your browser. Click that link (or press ALT-N) to bring up a mini window with your notes. You can also highlight the text you want to note, right-click and select “Note this (Google Notebook)”. The text now becomes a note.
Google Notebook is one of those applications I never knew I missed until I tried it. And now I have been a Google Notebook user for two years, and I haven’t looked back.
Visit Google Notebook for more information.