Google Notebook, Where Have You Been All My Life!

Have you heard of Google Notebook? No? Well, let me be the first to tell you -- this tool will change your life.

So what is Notebook? As its name suggests, it functions like an online notebook. You use it to save ideas, images, text, videos - basically, anything that you find interesting on the Internet can be saved in your notebook. On the surface, this may sound a bit "been there, done that" (doesn't Explorer Favourites do the same thing?) so let me make it clear... Notebook is a far superior and versatile tool.

Let's say you're planning your kitchen renovation. You search the internet for inspiring images, you research cabinet manufacturers, you find a few articles that talk about how to layout a kitchen. All useful stuff that you want to refer to again and again. If you were "oldschool", what you would do is either (a) bookmark these links in your Favourites, or (b) cut and paste the images/text into a Word document so you can have 'everything in one place'. With Notebook, you can do the same thing in a much simpler way.

You can create a Notebook for say "Kitchen Renovation" and within it have sub-sections for Cabinets, Appliances, Faucets, Tiles, Lighting etc. Now when you find a website you would like to save, you simply click the Notebook icon and both the image/text and link to the original source site are saved! Now you'll never have to say "So where did I see that again..." - again. The Notebook is like a photoalbum - you open it up and you can see everything at once. Unlike Favourites, you don't have to click on the link to see what it was you wanted to save... the picture or article you wanted to save is already visible in the Notebook. Even better, you can access your Google Notebook from whatever computer you are on.

You heard it here first. Make your surfing easier and more pleasurable. Now go download that tool :)