A couple of days ago, there was an announcement at Google Notebook official blog that they are discontinuing any further development on Google Notebook. You can still use your Google Notebook and everything, but there won’t be any further support and development on it.
The news sucks because I love using Google Notebook and it’s the plain simplicity that attracted me most.
The Google Notebook team also suggested to use other Google services that provide the same (and even better) functionalities as Google Notebook: Search Wiki, Google Docs, Tasks in Gmail, and Google Bookmarks.
So I guess it’s time to migrate all my notebooks from Google Notebook to somewhere else. Who knows when Google suddenly decides to cease the service altogether in the future.
So far though, the good alternatives available are migrating to Google Docs or Zoho Notebook. I also have Office Live Workspace, but it’s kinda clunky and it takes a while to load and do things in there. Zoho Notebook features look like the winner here but I have used a lot of Google services that I’d rather keep the eggs in one basket (Wait – that sounds wrong somehow).
What’s your favorite “notebook” kind of web service?
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Take a look at UberNote.com
For all the Google Notebook users, we are creating an importer.
It is a pretty full featured alternative that also does file attachments and note sharing.
Thanks for coming by, Joshua. Will take a look at UberNote later
Bummer News. I have been using Google Notebook for a while as well. I guess I’ll try this UberNote. Thanks for the Suggestion Joshua.
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I have never used google notes in the past. But, let me check ubernote.com.
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I don’t even know what Google Notebook is! At first I thought you were referring to an actual notebook like the Google phone is a real phone. But now you got me interested to check out the other online notebooks.
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I had a post about it (Google Notebook) some months ago. Guess you missed it!
I just looked at the tour of ubernote which looks good and much like google notebook. However I’m sticking with google notebook until they completely shut it down. At that point I’m hoping there will be better alternatives.
If I didn’t use Linux AND Windows, I’d just stick with OneNote. But online note-taking is nice in this circumstance since it doesn’t require continuous syncing hassles. Of course it does require an internet connection but that’s generally not a problem. Word!
Yeah.. I just wish that Google improves Google Notebook. I honestly love it more than the others. I slowly migrate to Google Docs now