Google Notebook is, in my opinion, one of the best tools for saving content from websites. It just got a lot better, too, with some of the most requested features getting implemented. The most notable addition is support for labels, which in Google terminology means tags. Just like in Gmail you can label each of your notes, and then you can view notes according to the labels. I tested out the new system and I have to say that it is rather impressive.
Interestingly enough Google Notebook also pulls in all of your Google Bookmarks and places them under the Unfiled notebook. Naturally you would expect the notebook to be called “Bookmarks” because “Unfiled” isn’t very descriptive, but I guess that was Google’s call. From the Unfiled notebook you can add/remove labels and comments from your bookmarks. A word of caution though: once you move a bookmark into another notebook it will no longer be accessible from your bookmarks.
There are also some more advanced sorting and filtering options, such as one for finding notes that haven’t been labeled and another for sorting notes from A to Z or by date. All of these features are available on both the web interface and in the Firefox extension.
This makes me really happy to see Google integrating some of their services together. What they really need to do now is get Google Notebook inside of Gmail, because I’d have to imagine that a lot of people would use this as an alternative to emailing themselves a reminder.
Google Notebook [via Google OS]
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Never used it…I will have to check it out.
I loved Google Notebook when I started blogging as I was able to put my notes and thoughts in it and open it anywhere when I was ready to blog. But, soon it became an organization nightmare for me! I soon lost track of what I needed and didn’t need anymore and stopped using.
But, labels is going to solve that for me as I use that in GReader & GMail. As you said having access to this inside Gmail would be fantastic. Off to add the GNotebook extension.
I have been waiting for tags for the longest time. Awesome news!
i guess there is no way to rename the the ‘unfiled’ note to something else. i have never been a huge fan of google’s bookmarking system anyway. But Labels are a good addition.
Never heard of that. I guess it’s Google’s parallel to Y! Notepad. Looks more AJAXY
That’s one problem that I always had with it as well. I’ve gotten good about keeping it a bit more organized though using the sections.
No, you cannot rename the “Unfiled” folder. That was one of the first things I tried.
It definitely has a lot of AJAX with it, but one of the nice things is that Google’s offering has the Firefox extension. It makes it a bit easier to manage your notes.