Google Notebook Leaves Beta, Gets Facelift

Ionut Alex has a look at the newest revision to Google Notebook, Google’s oft-overlooked note-taking product, which has just left beta and gotten some improved design and AJAX features. He’s detailed a lot of changes, including the easy click to add a new note, auto-saving, and other things. The coolest new thing has to be the ability to create a Google Maps noting all sorts of cool places, like this one. This is a feature native to Windows Live Maps, but its nice to see the Google Notebook team giving Maps a new feature.
What is the real point of Google Notebook? In a way, it’s the Notepad to Google Docs’ Word, the lighter note-taking app for when you don’t want to load the much more involved Docs word processor. Still, this could be better solved as a subset of the Docs application, perhaps sharing […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg