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Need to research and gather notes on a particular topic from all over the web? Google Notebook is a free tool which can help you do it. Google Notebook allows you to save and organise clips of information including text, images and links that you find while browsing the web without you having to leave the page you’re on.

Once you have downloaded the Google Notebook browser extension or Google toolbar you can simply highlight content on the web, right click and select Note this (Google Notebook). Then you can organised the clips of information you have saved from either the mini Google Notebook that appears at the bottom right of your screen, or you can go to your Notebook page.

So how does Google Notebook make organising clips easy?

  1. First of all, you can have more than one notebook so you can store information on different topics in different places.
  2. Secondly, you can create sections within your notebooks. You can call these sections whatever you like and simply drag and drop individual notes into the section you want them to go. Each note and section is collapsible by clicking on a minus sign in the top left corner so rearranging your notebook is easy.
  3. Thirdly, you can add labels to individual notes. Adding labels to notes makes finding the notes you want, when you want them, really easy. When I was using Google Notebook to research for this post I labelled notes on all the good things I found out about it as Advantages, then I could just type ‘advantages’ into the Notebooks search box and it would bring up all the notes that I had labelled with that.
  4. You can also add thoughts or comments to any of your notes with the Add a comment feature and even create a new blank note and type up a note or cut and paste notes from another document.
  5. Finally, every note you add while surfing the web includes a hyperlink to the webpage you originally copied it from, so you’ll never lose track of where you got your information.

What else is great about Google Notebook?

  1. You can access Google Notebook from any computer online, so you’ll always have access to your notes.
  2. You can share an individual notebooks with others by sending them email invites or you can make a notebook public so that everyone on the web can view it (notebooks are private by default).
  3. You can use Google Notebook to keep track of bookmarks too. If you right click on a webpage and select Note this (Google Notebook) without selecting any text then it will just save the link. You can then add labels and comments to the link the same way you would a note.

The only obvious downside to Google Notebook is that the Notebook browser extension can only be used in Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox. If you are using IE7 then when you will need to download and install the whole Google toolbar to be able to use Google Notebook. When you first login to Google notebook, if you see a message near the top of the screen asking you to download the browser extension, click on this and you will be prompted thought the right process.

To learn more about Google Notebook click here to see a video demonstration, or here to see the frequently asked question page.

To start using Google Notebook click here to visit the homepage.