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Written by Wei-Jing Zhu
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Friday, 03 November 2006
Google Notebook has in time matured to be a powerful personal and collaborative tool, ready to replace many Personal Information Management tools and Web2.0 contenders.
Google Notebook started out as a tool that allows one to easily note the googled results from searches, and provide a history of bookmarks and one's own notes associated to those bookmarks (OK to have no bookmark).
With recent features such as:
- sectional tabs to provide outline view
- easily creating new notebooks
- add collaborators for specific notebooks
- search within notebook sites
this is potentially able to replace even social bookmarking tools, with the exception that Social Bookmarking provides various aggregate information, such as "most popular", etc. But for one's own research or private information, Google Notebook is ideal.
The exception being Furl, with its ability to make a private copy of the text from the associated website. (One can always perform the mechanical step of copying the text and pasting it in Google Notebook.) Furl's automation of this single step is what sets it apart from all others.
Google Notebook's ability to easily collapse entries into outline section format makes it much more useful as a collaborative tool, basically as a Forum with open structure, not requiring an admin to set new forum sections! The only limitation being that you have to actively invite collaborators, rather than people signing up automatically. Maybe GNotebook should not be a forum.
Making the notebook public will create a webpage presentation for everyone to see. i.e. Easy to publish some interesting findings.
In time I will test whether this is the way to implement OpenCommentary.
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