Google Notebook

Here's another tool I've been using for awhile. As often as I use it, I haven't blogged about it before. Over at Google Operating System they noted that Google has rolled out some new features for google notebook. But first, what is Notebook? It's exactly what it sounds like. As you cruise the web, if you see something interesting, highlight it, right-click (with Firefox or Explorer extenstions installed) and save it to your notebook. You can have as many notebooks as you want, so it's easy to have Notebooks for different subjects. You can also share Notebooks with other users, which is awesome. When I was in school, we used features like this to create a central Notebook that several of us used to work on group projects. When my wife and I were planning our last vacation, we used Notebook while planning. I use it all the time for work. Simple, but very useful.

Some features:

• Publish a notebook online, so anyone can see it. Or not.
  
• Share you notebook for collaborative notetaking.
  
• You can publish an RSS feed of your notebook.
  
• You can clip text, pictures or links. They are saved with a link back to the original page.
  
• Of course, you can search your notebooks.
  
• You can export to Google Documents. From there, you can export to Word. For those of us that still work in Desktop apps part of the time, it'd be very nice to be able to do this in one step instead of 2.
  
• Your notes are available on any net connected computer
  

Give it a try, and let me know if you come up with any really cool uses.
Google Notebook
The FAQ