I’ve been using Google Notebook off and on since last year, and it’s been extremely handy. I logged in yesterday to write up a to-do list, and noticed that something seemed… different.
And then I started reading all over the place that Google Notebook has been upgraded and made multi-lingual to boot. If you haven’t checked it out recently, you really ought to. I use it for story notes and to keep track of information — like phone numbers — that I need from location to location, or that I just know I’ll have to spend 20 minutes looking for three weeks later if I save it as a regular file on my desktop.
Now I just wish Google would open up its API for working with services like Google Notebook and Gmail (as Yahoo! is doing) and allow desktop applications to take advantage of it. What would be truly hot is if I could use Tomboy or basKet to create / manage notes on the desktop on my main machine, and store them using Google Notebook.
The new Notebook interface is pretty slick, though. Combined with the Fullerscreen extension I’ve been using lately, it basically makes Google Notebook hard to distinguish from a desktop application. (It still lacks the drag and drop features, storing pictures from the desktop, and other niceties you get from standard desktop apps, though.) One thing I really like is the ability to export from Notebook to Google Documents.
