If you have been using Google Notebook to capture all your web clippings, here’s some bad news. Google has decided to stop further development of Google Notebook including the browser extension that was commonly used to clip text notes from web pages.
Alternatives for Google Notebook Users
Google will no longer offer Notebook to new users but existing users can continue to add or delete clips in their notebooks as before.
It may be therefore be a good idea to migrate all your existing data from Google Notebook to another web clipping service or you may save the notebook pages locally. Here are some options:
1. Export notes as Google Documents – Open the manage notebooks page at google.com/notebook/#X and export all your notebooks (one by one) as new documents in Google Docs. The tag
2. Move your notebooks to EverNote – This is again a manual process. Export notebooks as an HTML page (one by one) and capture these pages into EverNote. If you have not installed the EverNote client, you can use their web interface to copy-paste data from Google Notebook into EverNote.
3. Download Google Notebooks in one go – If you have tons of notebooks in Google Notebook, you should look at this Grease Monkey script that adds a new "Export Notebooks" link on your Google Notebook page. You can click the link and download all your notebooks in either Atom (RSS) or HTML format.
4. Use Microsoft OneNote – If you have a copy of Microsoft OneNote, use this Firefox extension to send your notebooks from Google to OneNote. You’ll first have to export the notebooks as HTML web pages though.
Related: Google Docs Guide
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/move-google-notebook-web-clippings/6542/
Tags: evernote, feature, google notebook, web clipping, Internet
Reader Comments
they just stopped all development, its not like the “old school” website is going anywhere. right? or am i being too positive? :P
Written by conedude13 on 01.14.09
Oh, man, that’s a shame. I love Google Notebook. Use it all the time. Thanks for the notice, Amit.
Written by Alek Davis on 01.14.09
This is typical google. They did similar thing to Google Browser Sync. Amit please do a article on Google Notebook alternatives besides Evernote.
Written by Prashant on 01.15.09
link is another good alternative for Google Notebook
Written by Modeling22 on 01.15.09
I tried these notebooks but prefer to use Jarte, a highly configurable free word processor. It is easy to copy text & figures into a Jarte txt document, and anything else can be captured with the built in screen capture. Eventually I print them to PDF for annotating or archiving, then delete the txt file.
Written by Alex on 01.15.09
Why not use Zotero? link
This is one of the best tools I’ve found for research on the Internet with extensions.
Written by J. Ruigrok van der Werven on 01.15.09
its a very sad news . How is Zoho Notebook . i heard lot about zoho.com . is zoho notebook good or avrg !!
Written by Abh on 01.15.09
Google ate my homework =O
Written by Bryan on 01.15.09
Wow! I guess that the focus was not really there for Google. Since not many people even knew about Google Notebook I understand why they would want to focus in on other more lucrative offerings.
Evernote is the way to go. They are going gang busters and doing very well. The company could not be more committed to producing a great product for their users. That’s why we did our integration with them! Pelotonics is in the middle of integrating with Google Docs. I feel much more safe with that product than some of these others they have discontinued!
Great blog by the way! Thanks for all your analysis…
Troy Malone
Written by Troy Malone on 01.15.09
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Written by Maggie on 01.15.09
Thasnks for hte interesting and helpful post. I was wondering what to do as soon as I heard about Notebook closing (I use it quite extensively).
Written by Alistair on 01.15.09
arrhh. Google!! I have tonnes of document there. why all of sudden they stop it. The sign to end google notebook??
Written by zaki on 01.15.09
Google notebook alternative… I personally use Springnote for a long time along with Google notebook. They are quite different but I think Springnote can be a replacement for G Noebook. try link
Written by yoon on 01.15.09
Save Google Notebook, Sign the petition and spread the word
link
Let them know how many of us are there that do care about the Google Notebook.
Written by Amrita Mukherjee on 01.16.09
in fact, compared with so many online notebook solutions, google notebook is still the best choice. evernote has so many limitations that i dont think it can fit for me. maybe zoho notebook is successor. however, data convert is a terrible thing.
Written by ayanamist on 01.18.09
Why should other notebook tools should give export option from Google Notebook. Anyway google is not going to restrict access for existing users!!!
Written by Ramki on 01.20.09