Google Notebook was a free online application offered by Google that allowed users to
save and organize clips of information while conducting research online. The
browser-based tool permitted a user to write notes, clip text and images, and save links
from pages during a browser session. The information was saved to an online
"notebook" with sharing and collaboration features. Notebooks could be made "public",
or visible to others, and also could be used to collaborate with a list of users (either
publicly or privately).
Function
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A few months after the Firefox extension was released, Google added a "Note this" link
to each Google search result when users are logged in. Clicking on it opened up an
AJAX user interface near the bottom right of the screen just like the extension, but
without the need for installing a browser add-on.
Notebooks could contain headings and notes. New notes went at the bottom of a
notebook, unless an insertion point (any specific note or section) had been pre-selected
in the mini-notebook sub-window. Using the full-page notebook view, drag-and-drop
features allowed moving and reorganizing notes within a notebook, or between
notebooks. It was also possible to export one's notebooks to Google Documents. Items
could be labeled. There was not an option to export notes as text (txt format) files.
History
Google Notebook was announced on May 10, 2006, and was online for users on May
15, 2006. On November 1, 2007, labeling became available. On January 14, 2009,
Google announced that they were stopping development on the service. However,
[1]
Google Notebook users could continue to use the service. Almost immediately,
[2]
Evernote launched a Google notebook importer on January 22, 2009.
In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products,
[3]
including Google Notebook through their ''second spring cleanup''. On November 11,
2011, Google began exporting the contents of existing Notebooks to Google Docs, and
made Google Notebooks read-only. As of July 2012, all Notebook data had been
[4]
exported to Google Drive and Google Notebook was shut down.
On March 20, 2013, Google launched its new note-taking application Google Keep.
See also
● Comparison of notetaking software
● Google Keep
● Google Docs
● List of Google products
References
● "Stopping development on Google Notebook". Google Notebook blog. 14
January 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
● Chartier, David (2009-01-23). "Evernote releases Google Notebook importer".
Ars Technica. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
● "A second spring of cleaning". Official Google Blog. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
● "Google Notebook FAQ". Retrieved 6 June 2013.
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