14 DAY TRIAL // Google Notebook, for its users, is the tool (capital T) for collecting, organizing and sharing information on the Internet. What does it have over the bookmarks, which basically do the same things? In order to solve this few-pieced puzzle for us, the team responsible for the project decided to combine the two and, thus, brought Google Notebook featuring Google Bookmarks last month.
Time for something new, so this month they said that while the new Toolbar was about to be launched anyway, they might as well equip it with their application and work on it from there on end: "whenever you find a page you want to remember, select any part you want to clip and then press the star button. If you want, add it to a Notebook. Later, you can get back to pages in your bookmarks and notebooks through the bookmarks menu, or through the mini-Notebook. As an added bonus, the Toolbar can highlight the part of a page you've clipped, letting you jump back to exactly what you found most interesting", Kushal Dave, Tech Lead at Google Notebook, said.
As notebooks are by default private, how about sharing them with some of your contacts? Ok, said the dev team, we can do that. And so they did. Annotations created this way have been highlighted differently for you to differentiate them from your contacts', but nevertheless you can this way establish sort of an opinion-exchanging means that's pretty reliable. "For now, you can't export the annotations or subscribe to someone's public annotations, but it's not hard to see these features added in the next iterations of Google Toolbar", says Ionut Alex. Chitu of googlesystem.blogspot.com.
The new blog, that you can find at http://googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com is there for you to find out new things about the Google Notebook and its updates and even provide the team with the feedback that they need in order to make things better for everybody.