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Top replacements or alternative for Google Notebook!

By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:January 21, 2009

I’m surprised google is dropping Google Notebook. I wonder what the reason is? Still, it’s their choice. That’s why so many of their free products are always ‘beta’. They can drop it whenever they want.

Google is discontinuing development on its Notebook service , At Google, we’re constantly working to innovate and improve our products so people can easily find and manage information. At times though, we have to decide where to focus our efforts and which technologies we expect will yield the most benefit to users in the long run.

Starting next week, we plan to stop active development on Google Notebook. This means we’ll no longer be adding features or offer Notebook for new users. But don’t fret, we’ll continue to maintain service for those of you who’ve already signed up. As part of this plan, however, we will no longer support the Notebook Extension, but as always users who have already signed up will continue to have access to their data via the web interface at http://www.google.com/notebook.

The good news is that there are a few solid products that do almost the same thing, and in some cases–do it better. Here’s a list of seven of my favorites.

- Zoho Notebook

Zoho Notebook is an interesting application that is similar to your spiral bound notebook where you can write, draw or doodle, but this being a web application, you can add different types of pages to it. One page can be a photo page, another a word processor page, another a Spreadsheet page, another page can be an application…and the list goes on.

- Evernote

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

- Ubernote

UberNote is a web productivity tool for storing notes. It’s geared towards everyday usage and actually working inside the app itself. UberNote was developed to address a need for an advanced, all purpose web-based notes application. Fast interface, full text search, tagging. It may seem like a common idea of web notes, but the interface is more like a real client server application vs. a web site.

- Clipmarks

On Clipmarks.com, you can see clips of text, images or video about all sorts of topics that other people find while surfing the web. The idea is that through each other, we can learn more, know more and enjoy more than we could possibly do alone. As you find people who post clips that interest you, make them a Guide. Think of your Guides as a team of web editors you choose to consistently deliver you clips of things they find on the web.

- Springnote

Springnote allows you to create pages, to work on them together with your friends, and to share files. Springnote is also a great tool for group projects as it allows group members to easily collaborate. Advanced search, numerous templates, and 2GB of FREE File Storage are only few examples of how Springnote can help you. Of course, you already know that Springnote is an Internet service, meaning you can access it from anywhere anytime.

- delicious

- Magnolia

It starts with making the social side of social bookmarking work better. With contacts, groups and different ways to share bookmarks both within and outside of Ma.gnolia, we make working together on a casual basis or more formal projects fun and easy.

- Microsof OneNote

OneNote is an electronic version of a paper notebook where you can write down notes, thoughts, ideas, scribbles, reminders, and all kinds of other information. Unlike the traditional document formats used by other programs such as word-processing or spreadsheet programs, OneNote offers a free-form canvas where you can type, write, or draw notes in the form of text, graphics, and images wherever and however you want them.

- Diigo

Diigo is two services in one — it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other. With every Diigo user tagging and annotating pages online, the Diigo community has collectively created a wonderful repository of quality content, filtered and annotated by the community, on almost any subject you may be interested in. For example, if you would like to find popular resources on e-learning, searching Diigo can probably get what you want in less time than using search engines, and you may also gain insights from other users.

- Springpadit

Springpads are free online notebooks that help you manage your life. Use your springpad to keep track of notes, photos, maps, to-do’s, contacts, appointments & more.

- SimplyBox

SimplyBox is a free service to Capture, Share, and Organize ANYTHING you find on the web

- Sazell

- Net Notes

Store Notes for the website in your active browser tab can be added and edited in a simple textbox in your Firefox sidebar. The content of the Notes textbox is automatically saved as soon as you close the sidebar or a new website is loaded into the active browser tab.

- i-Lighter

i-Lighter is an easy way to save, use and share information. Use the NEW i-Lighter Firefox Toolbar to instantly save, organize and use your i-Lighted information. In a click of your mouse, your can i-Light, annotate it and email it, blog it, twitter it, tag it and post to your Wiki-Light, a new and easy way to share your i-Lights…..and more.

- ileonardo

iLeonardo is a Social Utility for connecting to people and their collections of relevant information on the web. People use iLeonardo to build digital notebooks of anything from the Internet. In return the utility displays similar notebooks that other people have created and made public.

- Zotero

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.