Not many people know the existence of Google Notebook. Most people (believe this or not) ever only thought the word “Google” is identic to the search engine. Sometimes when I tried to explain Google AdSense, Analytics, Docs, etc to my friends, it got complicated lol.
Sometimes I have a piece of important information. It can be a great URL that I found, a list of items that I need to buy much later, an event, or simply any piece of information that I have to remember. Some people write these piece of information on their arms, some on their mobile phones, and some email the info to their own email address as a record (I was on this category, unfortunately).
So how does Google Notebook help?
Majority of web users nowadays usually have a Yahoo ID, a Google Account, and/or a Windows Live ID. If you are using Gmail as your primary email, then you technically have a Google Account, which you can use on every Google’s services, including Google Notebook.
Google Notebook is another great web application by Google, in which you can create notes and simple documents online. It is a “scaled-down” version of Google Docs and it’s focused on creating bookmarks and “simple” notes.
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Don’t be fooled when I meant “simple”. Google Notebook has features that are no way simple. You can label, export, and even share the notes to the whole world.
Google Notebook is useful when you:
- find an interesting URL using your office computer and want to access it later at home (Some of you have probably used internet bookmarking service or Firefox extensions to synchronize your bookmarks on different computers)
- have to write notes on important information. For example I had to buy 4 badminton rackets for my friends and myself last week. I then wrote down the type of racket that everybody wants on Google Notebook.
- want to bookmark a category of important URLs. For example I have on my Google Notebook a group of good site URLs giving free high quality images. If I bookmark them on my browser, I won’t be able to access the URLs when I’m on a network cafe or a friend’s house.
- have friends who always borrow stuffs from you: DVDs, Games, Books, etc. If you haven’t written down “who borrows what” from you, chance is that you may never get all of your items back. Trust me on this lol.
- writing your username and passwords of any kind! It’s not encrypted and you shouldn’t put that kind of information on the web, even though it looks secure.
- writing your grocery items to buy on your way home after work. Unless if you are a pure geek who goes to supermarket and accesses Wi-Fi just to check your list of items
- writing any piece of secure information ever.
Conclusion on Google Notebook
Google Notebook is easy to use and you should be able to grab the concept and features pretty quickly. It is simple and quick, just like Gmail. Google Notebook also has the ability to clip information easily from a page that you are visiting to your Google Notebook. Check the video demo here from Google.
If you are using Google Chrome, you can read this to find out more on how to clip the information to your Google Notebook.
Another thumb up for Google!
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Google notebooks is a duplication ,i hardly doubt many people will make much use of it!
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I just know about Google Notebook
When I saw the tittle I thought it was a real notebook but if I am not wrong it’s software???
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I used and still use Google Notebook ALL the time! It’s so useful! Rather than bookmarking thousands of websites, I just clip the important information to me, label it, categorize it in the appropriate notebook, and voila! Much better than Clipmarks and it’s not just a simple social bookmarking site or something – much better people!
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I never used Google notebook. It almost sounds like social bookmarking on steroids.
I guess I am old school. I have many URLs saved in IE, which are organized pretty well. But certainly Google Notebook could improve on this!
Great info…I don’t believe I’ve used it before but it sounds more efficient than bookmarking a gazillion sites. Thanks!
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I had never heard of Google notebook, but I can see how it may well turn out to be very useful, thanks for the info.
I have been using Google Notebook for about 9 months. It’s nice to be able to write quick notes that I can access from any computer with Internet access.
I have also experimented with Google Docs which is like an Office application.
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Yes, this notebook is realy nice, i use it all days and cann’t imagine miss it.
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First I ever heard of it. Sounds like it might be very useful and save space by not having bookmark all the sites I visit
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Yeah, I wasn’t aware of it too until about a week ago. Now I use it to write almost every little things that I need to remember/write down
Quite useful if you want to access the info on different computers
finally, i can stop writing little notes on my arm.
i agree though, i think i’d use this mostly for those bits of text i need to access from any computer.
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Great post!! I just have to copy it