About 1 year after Google Notebook went live, Google has taken it out of beta. And with that they’ve made some changes to the interface, and added several languages to it besides English.
While there weren’t too many changes to the interface, you’ll notice that it’s all polished up and looks cleaner. And because millions of people do not speak English, they added 17 other languages to choose from like German, Polish, Turkish, Chinese, etc.
The image below is a screenshot of what the new polished version looks like:
This in comparison to the old version (image from ZDnet):
A few things that might be nice to add in the future:
- Offline syncing (seems to be the new convenient trend for online apps)
- Tagging!
If they can take Google Notebook out of Beta, don’t you think it’s time they drop the Beta tag on Gmail? Sheesh!
Check it out: Google Notebook
I don’t mean to nitpick but the title of this post is a bit….off.
raindog
Umm, it’s right on the money. Google Notebook is now out of beta and it’s UI has been refreshed.
Read the title of the post again. Notice anything? Goolge perhaps?
Thanks for being nit-picky
It fixed it…
While the UI is a bit nicer, I was a little disappointed in a couple of things:
-Lack of tagging (as Ashley mentioned), and
-I don’t like how comments are added to the end of the note when the note is minimized.
It’s also a little too bare bones for me. Perhaps this is what Google is aiming for though…who knows?
I think Google is definitely trying to keep it slim down, because there are plenty of more extravagent note taking solutions like Diigo. I don’t know how the heck they have gotten by for so long without implementing a tagging solution though!