Google Notebook Is Live

Google Notebook is the new bookmark manager from Google. That’s right, Google wants to be your del.icio.us! With Google Notebook you can clip useful information gathered while surfing such as text, images, and links. You can create multiple notebooks, divide them into sections, drag-and-drop your notes to stay organized, and make your notebook public so you can share your bookmarks with the world. Google Notebook is not software — it’s available to you on any computer that has an internet connection.  However, you can download a browser extension to simplify the process of adding items to your notebook.

Strangely, Google Notebook does not seem to have replaced Google Bookmarks, since that site is still active. Maybe they will merge in the future…it’s hard to say…but having both sites live seems somewhat redundant.

Also, unlike del.icio.us, there is NO TAGGING in Google Notebook. No tagging! It doesn’t make sense. With Gmail, you’re essentially tagging your mail with labels, so it’s not like the concept of tagging is foreign to them. Gmail is hailed as one of Google’s most innovative releases to date, so you would think that they would take note of what they did right.

Finally, Google Notebook seems to be lacking any sort of import/export feature…unless I’m just missing it…but it doesn’t appear in their FAQ, so I’m guessing it doesn’t exist yet. There’s no way I will re-create my del.icio.us collection manually!

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