Still part of the problem.
It would seem that Google Notebook
lets us do just what it claims it lets us do, so on that level I can't really
complain. If I want it to do something different, then that's, perhaps, my problem.
But it makes sense that a tool that collects information on the web and makes
it accessible to us in an organized framework should mesh much more seamlessly
with other informations that we gather and store. The fact that Google Notebook
doesn't yet do this is quite a disappointment.
If I want to take notes,
I can use my word processor. Even if it's a bit round-about, copying text and
graphics into a page of notes isn't difficult. And with desktop search I can easily
find those notes, even if they're not organized on the same page. So the advantage
of a tool such as Google Notebook should be (to my mind at least) the fact that
it would integrate with other items that I save.
So, rather than giving me a stand-alone program that either competes with
other programs for my thoughts and notes (and pretty much demands that I check
a few different tools in order to find where, or on which platform, I saved those
thoughts), what I expected this program to do was to integrate my notes with my
mail. I expected that I'd be able to tag a paragraph of text from a web page that
I'd visited in the same way I tag mail threads today. What's more, I figured that
I'd be able to add those tagged notes into those mail threads. Instead of replying
to a mail message and not sending that reply but instead saving it as a draft,
it seemed logical to me that what Google Notebook would do would be to create
a note to myself that would be kept in a logical place as part of my mail.
Go to: Doing
things the hard way.