Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google NotebookThere’s been a lot of excitement about Google Chrome, Google’s fast and clean new web browser. But you may have noticed that it’s missing a way to clip to Google Notebook! Oh noes! Luckily, you c…
Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google NotebookThere’s been a lot of excitement about Google Chrome, Google’s fast and clean new web browser. But you may have noticed that it’s missing a way to clip to Google Notebook! Oh noes! Luckily, you c…
Posted by Daniel Benson, Software Engineer, Data Liberation Front, ChicagoOur friend Export is tired of the bar scene and has moved into his own place. To check it out his swanky new digs, look down at the bottom of your notebook and click the Export l…
Posted by Daniel Benson, Software Engineer, Data Liberation Front, ChicagoOur friend Export is tired of the bar scene and has moved into his own place. To check it out his swanky new digs, look down at the bottom of your notebook and click the Export l…
Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google NotebookI love my Google Notebook browser extension. It’s like a faithful puppy. It follows me by my side everywhere I go on the Internet.Sadly, I can’t always take my Firefox extensions with me. Maybe I…
Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google NotebookI love my Google Notebook browser extension. It’s like a faithful puppy. It follows me by my side everywhere I go on the Internet.Sadly, I can’t always take my Firefox extensions with me. Maybe I…
Posted by Nadav Savio, UX Designer, Google NotebookIf you could see my desk, you’d know I like to spread my things out. I need plenty of room for all my papers, books, Oblique Strategies cards, and other desk-based flotsam. When my desk is small, it fe…
Posted by Nadav Savio, UX Designer, Google NotebookIf you could see my desk, you’d know I like to spread my things out. I need plenty of room for all my papers, books, Oblique Strategies cards, and other desk-based flotsam. When my desk is small, it fe…
Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google NotebookToday, it’s my pleasure to announce the opening of two trendy new bars on the Notebook home page.Uptown, we have the new editing toolbar. It offers a wide selection of text-editing tools from Goo…
Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google NotebookToday, it’s my pleasure to announce the opening of two trendy new bars on the Notebook home page.Uptown, we have the new editing toolbar. It offers a wide selection of text-editing tools from Goo…
Posted by Kushal Dave, Tech Lead, Google NotebookFor some time now, Notebook has automatically detected correctly-formatted U.S. addresses in your notes, letting you view them by choosing “View on a map” from the Tools menu. And we recently made it pos…
Posted by Kushal Dave, Tech Lead, Google NotebookFor some time now, Notebook has automatically detected correctly-formatted U.S. addresses in your notes, letting you view them by choosing “View on a map” from the Tools menu. And we recently made it pos…
Posted by Michał Cierniak, Software Engineer, Search Quality
Have you ever clipped text from a site and later found that the link Google Notebook associated with it takes you back to a page that doesn’t have your clipped content anymore? I know I have. Luckily, there’s a new feature in Notebook to help you see your note in its original context. In the newly released version of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, if you clip part of a page that supports the hAtom standard, we will save the correct permalink and title for the text you clipped.
Say you’re reading the Bird Lovers Only Rescue blog and notice the post from 5 January 2008 announcing a PBS Nature Series called Parrots in The Land Of Oz. You keep a notebook on TV shows about birds, so you select the text describing the show and clip it into Google Notebook. If you did this with an older version of Notebook, you would see the clipped text with the title “Bird Lovers Only Rescue” and http://birdloversonly.blogspot.com as the URL. But when you navigated back to this page later, you would only see the most recent posts, not the one you were trying to save. The post you wanted would be hiding somewhere in the site. But the new Toolbar with Notebook helps make sure your notes take you back to the right place.
Please note this feature only works on web pages that support hAtom and the number of sites that use this standard is limited. Here’s a a list of sites that support hAtom, including popular news sources like People Magazine and numerous blogs. The Blogger platform supports hAtom for all blogs that use the new templating system.
We hope that more and more sites will support hAtom and other microformats in the future. If you want to modify your blog’s template just enough to make Google Notebook find the permalink info, you can follow my instructions, which are intended for Blogger. If you know enough about HTML to customize your blog’s template, you should be able to figure out how to apply them to other blogging software.
Posted by Michał Cierniak, Software Engineer, Search QualityHave you ever clipped text from a site and later found that the link Google Notebook associated with it takes you back to a page that doesn’t have your clipped content anymore? I know I have….
Posted by Kushal Dave, Tech Lead, Google NotebookChristmas always stresses me out. Between travel plans, gift ideas, wish lists and finishing up at work, there’s a lot to keep track of. Luckily, Google Notebook helps out a bit — below are a few t…