Google Notebook

For a long time now I have carried an “Ideas” Notebook around with me to jot down ideas and plans for websites, logos, clients, and anything that popped in my head really. Recently (maybe due to my Treo?), I have been carrying an Ideas Notebook around less and less. However, this leads to writing out ideas on scrap paper, in the back of class notebooks, napkins, etc. This also means that there is not one solitary place I can go to view all of my ideas. This is where Google Notebook comes in.

As usual, Google has made an awesome application, accessible anywhere, and easy to use with great power. While still in the “Labs” part of Google, Notebook has some great features that instantly made it a keeper for me. You don’t just create notes- you create notebooks. And within those notebooks, you can set up as many headings as you want, with as many notes as you want under them. That means I can contain all of my ideas to an ideas notebook, and all my current site to do lists to an entirely different notebook. You can also share your notebooks with other Google Users. This is great for collaboration. And of course, you can do what Google does best- search. But not just through your notebooks. Through all public notebooks. There is also a really neat drag and drop feature to easily move notes and sections to other notebooks.

Along with Google Notebook is the Notebook Firefox Extension. This allows your to add notes right from Firefox, with the ability to add a link to the current page you are on, or even content from that page.

One thing I would like to see before Notebook leaves the labs is the ability to email yourself notes, much like you can with Google Docs. Still, this is a great and easy to use app that I highly recommend. Later!