Use Google Notebook to collect web clippings or scraps of web pages

Posted on March 18, 2007 at 1:59 am

If you’re a normal person, you’ve probably planned out a great vacation or researched a lot before buying a new car, right? And with all the great info on the Internet now these days, why look through books when you can do it all online! But books were nice, you could cut out clippings or just tear out pages if you wanted to look at them later. Trying to do that on the computer is a pain, you have to copy and then paste the info into either Word or Notepad and half the time the tables are all messed up and the images are missing, so I never bothered with it and tried to keep it all in my head!

Well, Google has had a useful little tool for a good while now, which is still in beta and I’m not sure why, which really takes the pain out of saving information off of web sites. Now if you read something useful and want to store it, all you would have to do is right click and choose “Note This” and your selected clipping is automatically stored into virtual notebook which is accessible from any computer!

Here’s the link to download Google Notebook: http://www.google.com/notebook.

Sign in with your Google account and download the browser extension for Internet Explorer (you should see a link at the top-middle of the page) so that you can save a clipping right from IE. Here is the link in case you could not find it:

http://www.google.com/notebook/download

Once it’s installed, go to a web site and select some text, right click and you’ll see the new option Note This.

Once you select this option, Google will take the clipping and add it to your notebook. It’ll also open a small little window at the bottom of your screen which will show you your notes:

Google has also added some nice features to the notebook, such as the ability to share your notebook with someone else, drag and drop notes between notebooks, sections, or just to re-order them and a recovery feature in case you accidentally delete a note. Check it out and start collecting the web easily!

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