17 August 2006
Great research tool from Google
Google has a very useful product in its labs that all students and people who have to research anything should know about. Google Notebook is an extention for Internet Explorer and Firefox (Windows and Linux) that allows people to take clips of pages and store them in one location that is accessable from any computer.
Simply by right clicking a section of text or an image a user can tell the software to remember that section. The source of the information will be displayed just below or at the end of the section. Later on the main page of your notebook you can view all of your notebooks and organize the articles within them just by dragging and dropping the information. There is a section to search your notebooks or to search for information in other people's notebooks and you can even publish your notebook page for others to view. This would be especially useful for people working together on a research project. They could share information without actually having to bring the information to one physical place. There is also the ability to add headings to sections of clips and of course to rename and delete your notebook.
With the extention users can open and close the notebook just by clicking a little icon on the status bar of their browser for the easiest accessability available. Also for all of us running Opera or Safari will have to wait for the extention as it is not currently available, but may be in the future.
I strongly encourage students to look into this. It seems to be one of the best options for storing information while doing online research. Also people working in offices and businesspeople should look into it as it should be very useful in storing information related to researching venues for meetings and conventions or any other daily business activity involving bringing information together. This product I will decrease the time required to gather any type if information and present it.
Simply by right clicking a section of text or an image a user can tell the software to remember that section. The source of the information will be displayed just below or at the end of the section. Later on the main page of your notebook you can view all of your notebooks and organize the articles within them just by dragging and dropping the information. There is a section to search your notebooks or to search for information in other people's notebooks and you can even publish your notebook page for others to view. This would be especially useful for people working together on a research project. They could share information without actually having to bring the information to one physical place. There is also the ability to add headings to sections of clips and of course to rename and delete your notebook.
With the extention users can open and close the notebook just by clicking a little icon on the status bar of their browser for the easiest accessability available. Also for all of us running Opera or Safari will have to wait for the extention as it is not currently available, but may be in the future.
I strongly encourage students to look into this. It seems to be one of the best options for storing information while doing online research. Also people working in offices and businesspeople should look into it as it should be very useful in storing information related to researching venues for meetings and conventions or any other daily business activity involving bringing information together. This product I will decrease the time required to gather any type if information and present it.
Labels: education, firefox, Google, IE, internet
