17 Noteworthy Alternatives To Google Notebook

There is a list of tols to replace Google Notebook.

But me and other commentators are surprised that Evernote is not mentioned in the list.

Evernote is only mentioned at the beginning

“Google’s decision to discontinue development of Google Notebook had some users petitioning to save it, while rival service Evernote is already offering Google Notebook imports. So for those left in the cold, and those not yet sold on Evernote, what are your options for alternatives?“

Kreeo – a new KM system that can be used as a Web research (Web clipping) tool as well

Look at a new system Kreeo that can be very successfully used for Web research (Web clipping).

Kreeo developers in India  describe their system as a Knowledge Management platform:

“} Kreeo is a knowledge management (structured and unstructured) platform for the enterprises and masses with dynamic portal support“

Kreeo as a KM platform can be used as a

- Web research (online research) tool

- Web clipping tool

- note taking (capturing) and saving tool

- social discussion tool (forums, question-answers, polls)

- blog

- storage for knowledge (concepts with descriptions and detail info at lower level)

- public and personal tool

- communication tool

- and more.

They enable to save information of different types (text, graphic, photo).

You can very easy capture info from the Web and save both in your personal notebook (you can create a number of notebooks) or public notebook ( ERROR – NO PUBLIC NOTEBOOKS – I have received such a comment from kreeo developer).

As Kreeo is beta not all features are operating now. I am waiting for a feature – capturing info from RSS as I browse each day a lot of RSS and I should like to save my selected info.

There are more usefull features and shall write about them later.

Kreeo is beta so far but and now you can use it for a lot of different purposes.

Evernote, Zoho et al eyeing for Google Notebook Users

A short info how these web clipping services (Evernote, Zoho, Ubernote, Diigo)  “are working extra hard to win over Google Notebook users who may be searching for new homes for their data as Google is discontinuing Notebook.“

11 Useful and Free Sticky Notes (Sticky Pad) Softwares For Your Desktop

During Web research you need to use sticky notes on desktop as well.  You can find a list of 11 free tools. An author of this source combine Evernote and one sticky tool.

From Google Notebook to Evernote or Zoho Notebook

Different Web research or Web clipping tools enables export Google Notebook to these tools.

Read Evernote blog Welcome You Fine Google Notebook Users to get info how export from Google Notebook and import to Evernote.

You can find other info about import from Google Notebook to  Zoho Notebook.

Engaging Students as Researcher through Internet use

I see that my blog visitors are interested in Web research tools for education and students.

Therefore I should like to recommend students and lecturers an interesting article Engaging Students as Researchers through Internet use.

A short excerpt

“Information Gathering: students appreciated a wide range of options and felt that the Internet allowed them more choices. They also expressed awareness of the pitfalls of searching the Web and cautioned against gathering too much information without focusing their topic or evaluating their results as they progressed in their research.

Discovery: students appreciated the exposure to new perspectives and areas of research–essentially the increased opportunity for serendipitous events.

Connectivity: students liked the brainstorming aspect of Web searches and how they would return to their searching strategy as new information appeared. Students also made connections in terms of sequencing tasks and developed a sense of the connections emerging between their sources.

Evaluation: students want to read a lot of articles to find the “best ones.” They expressed awareness of practicing more caution in their choices and understood the need to look at sites for the publisher’s bias.^“

How replace Google Notebook

Those who are interested how to replace Google Notebook (more and more info about Google discontinue Google Notebook service)  should look at cnet info

Seven worthy Google Notebook repalcements

You wiil find short info and recommendations how to replace by

• Evernote
• Zoho Notebook
• Clipmarks
• Ubernote
• Springnote
• Delicous
• Magnolia

Select next tool evaluating your needs, tools using type and all tools benefits and advantages.  Some short info about tools you will find in my previous blogs.

Web research terms

I try to collect ALL terms that are related to Web research (online research etc)

In my blog July 2008  I wrote that the following terms  that can be used to search info about Web research tools:

• Web research
• Online research
• Internet research
• e-research
• Web clipping
• Notemarking
• Online Notebook

Today I should like to add a few more

• Note taking and saving
• Note capturing and saving
• Web clipping annotation

and propose  to look  at a list of different tools including

Iterasi

Ubernote

Webnotes

Zotero and a lot of others.

I shall be very glad if somebody will comment what tools they have tested.

Search and Research

When we use Web research (Web clipping, note taking) tools it means that we have found a Website or get info about it in other form.

As concering search I typically use a few different types seach engines

Quintura http://www.quintura.com

kartoo http://kartoo.com/

SenseBot http://sensebot.net/

hakia http://hakia.com/

lexxe http://lexxe.com/

powerset http://www.powerset.com

Microsoft Live search http://search.live.com

Clusty http://clusty.com/ (former vivisimo)

Cuil http://www.cuil.com/

Scour http://scour.com/

Some search engines enable to get an additional information about related terms, other generates list of topics etc.

Kartoo generates some visualisation of results etc.

Typically I start to collect realted terms to my first query and compare different search results.

There are more search engines, eg. DerepWeb search. I shall present some info about them on the following blog.

Webnotes – an interesting tool for collecting and saving notes

I have started to test an interesting tool Webnotes.

It enables (info from their homepage)

”’

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• Annotate the web

  With WebNotes you can highlight text and stick notes to web pages.

• 
  Organize your notes

  All highlights and notes are stored in folders within your WebNotes account.

• 
  Share your comments

  Pages you annotate can be shared through email or online links’‘

I have downloaded it as a Firefox extension,. You can use and with IE.

It has very simple tutorial – pay attention that you can repeat studying of each page a few times. There is no mark that you have ended.

Very useful that you can collect snippets with automated saving of the title and URL. You can add your sticky note as well.

Later you can publish selecting different parts of your saved info, e.g. ALL (Title, URL, note,  your snippet (selected info) and surrounding info) and only reference info (title and URL).

You can publish both HTML or pdf.

It would be nice if Webnotes operated faster.