Friday, August 1, 2008

Sivaraman's Column-7: "Google Notebook"

Google Notebook is a very useful free tool to collect information while surfing the web. Usually we do the following to take notes from the web.

· We select the information.
· Copy it.
· Open any text editor like MS-Word, Notepad etc.
· Paste it.

When you want to add another page, you will have to do all the steps again.

When we save the downloaded matter on the hard disk of your PC, we cannot access it from other places. So, we transfer it to a CD or DVD or Pendrive so that we can take it wherever we go.

Google Notebook obviates this and helps us to access the matter from anywhere in a new way.

First you need to download the Google Notebook browser extension from the Google Welcome page or in your Google Notebook window. After downloading and installing the Google toolbar, The Notebook icon along with a few other Google service icons will be in your browser.

You can use the Google Notebook by clicking on the Google Notebook icon and sign in with your gmail account.

If you want to record any matter from the web, just select and click the clip button in the Google Notebook window. Or select the information and right click and select “Note this (Google Notebook)” option. Then it is automatically saved into your Notebook.

You can view your notes from anywhere by logging into your Google Notebook window.

You can open the note and view in full page.

You can invite someone to edit your notes.

You can publish your note as web page.

You can take it to Google Docs for further editing.

Limitations

The space restriction for each note is 64 KB.

Presently this feature is supported in Internet Explorer and Firebox browsers only.

Kindly try Google Notebook and tell me what you feel about it. Bye – Sivaraman.
For more details, Wikipedia article on "Google Notebook":

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