Google Notebook

Google Notebook is live today. This application lets the users to save text, images, and links from the web pages to an online notebook, and can share the saved notes with others. Multiple notebooks can be created to categorize the saved notes. Notes can be searched in private notebooks as well as in public note books. When you find an interesting text or an image or a link in of the web pages you are browsing, you can save these items to Google Notebook by selecting the item and selecting "Note this (Google Notebook)". This is illustrated in the following image.



Google Notebook is an extension for IE or Firefox browser. Once this software is installed, a small icon is shown in right bottom of your browser window. A popup window is shown in bottom right of the browser when you clip text or image is very handy.

Google Notebook is directly linked with Google search results. One new link called “Note This” provided with the Google search results. Using this link, we can bookmark the link in Google Notebook. Notebook items have support of drag and drop with clean Ajax interface.

This application has no support for tags. I think this is one of the disadvantages of this tool when compared to online bookmark management tools like del-icio-us, furl etc. In fact, Google has a different tool for saving the bookmarks called Google Bookmarks .

You can take a look another tool called Clipmarks when we talk about book marking tools.
Clipmarks is similar tool where you can save text, image online and share them too. Just like how you can take magazine and newspaper clippings, Clipmarks allows you to do this online. Tools like this are designed to share your clipping with your friends and relatives. del.icio.us is a book marking tool designed for storing and sharing bookmarks. del.icio.us doesn't allow you too keep your bookmarks private.

Related:
1. Overview of Google Notebook
2. Download Google Notebook
3. Google Notebook - FAQ

Category: Google