Google products always come equipped with features that makes them better than what came before. Google Notebook, just released, is no exception. Like Del.icio.us, Google Notebook enables you to click and save items you encounter on the web. Unlike Del.icio.us, Google Notebook grabs text and graphics in addition to a URL.
This is easier to see than to explain. Here’s a Google Notebook on Informal Learning I just put together in a couple of minutes. Imagine the possibilities. You can create as many Notebooks as you like, enabling you to assemble virually any collection of goodies from the web with scant effort.
Instructors and designers will easily assemble resource pages on the web to accompany workshops, webinars, and other situations. This is so easy, I’m going to set up some personal performance support pages.
As you might expect from a company whose income depends on search capability, Google Notebook does not use tags. It’s a way to assemble reference material but it is not social software. An hour ago I was browsing Harold Jarche’s links on Furl, using them as a takeoff point into other subjects.
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It will be interesting to see how it takes off. I’ve used QuickNote for sometime now in Firefox, (though that doesn’t show images). In the past I’ve used my-eNotes for IE. That did save images, however, it hasn’t progressed beyond a version for IE 5 as far as I know, and at the moment the page would seem to be down. There are other tools for IE that let you create “snippets”, so it will be interesting if this starts to take off - I’ve seen quite a few things that are rather niche uses - until Google does its own version. (Often better than the earlier ones, though not always).
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if you like google notebook, you are gonna love clipmarks.com. why?
Here is what I see that Google’s new product does:
1) Creates a bookmark to the page that you were on when you did the notebook thing.
2) Takes whatever text you had highlighted at the time and makes that sorf of “your notes” about that page that is now bookmarked in their system.
3) Allows you then to go in and edit those notes to add your own text, or whatever. With a little html-like editor.
4) Allows you then to go in and look at all your notebook items in the typical Google ugly fashion.
5) No Tagging
6) No Community
Meanwhile, the Clipmarks featureset is completely different:
1) Allows you to clip many pieces from one site or page, or several sites or pages and make them together into ONE NEW PAGE.
2) Allows you to tag these entries for later search retrieval, sharing, networking, etc. Tagclouds help you to find interesting tags easily.
3) Allows you to then quickly and easily send those clippings into a set of “bookmarking” sites like Delicious, etc.
4) Provides an absolutely beautiful, fast, fabulous in every way UI to go and look at your clippings, search them, etc.
5) Provides a great commenting and popping system to foster actual social interaction around your clippings.
6) Provides a way to subscribe to an RSS feed for a tag or a person.
7) Provides a way to make Clips public or private.
9) Provides a print function that really rocks and let you print out pages which originaly can’t be printed well because of design errors. Due to the fact that you can clip content from different or multiple pages in one Clipmark, printing was never been easier.
10) All of this is completely integrated into your browser.
Sounds interesting. Much better than just adding to your favorites I guess. I sometimes forget why I add into Favs so this should help. Thanks for the tip!
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