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July 11, 2008

Google Notebook Bookmarklet

There are many ways to add notes to Google Notebook: you can visit google.com/notebook or click on "My notebooks" from any Google search results page. To add excerpts from web pages, you need an extension: Google Toolbar 5 for IE or Google Notebook for Firefox. But what happens if you use a browser like Safari or if you aren't allowed to install add-ons?

Google Notebook bookmarklet is a lightweight alternative that doesn't require installation. You just drag and drop a link to your browser's links bar or bookmark the link. To copy some content from a web page to a notebook, just select the text and click on "Note this".


For some reason, Opera can only view notebooks, so this bookmarklet can't be used to add notes.

Related:
Useful Google bookmarklets

{ via Google Notebook Blog }
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 11, 2008 at 11:11 PM

    Thanks for the FF addon tip. I just started using Google notebook and this should make it even easier to use.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 12, 2008 at 8:43 AM

    For most reasons, except the sites required IE Kernel, all things using the Firefox will be the best.

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  3. KenBW2July 15, 2008 at 7:40 AM

    +1 for annoyance at Opera read-only. Anyone know a fix?

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  4. AnonymousJuly 15, 2008 at 8:56 AM

    Thanks for the heads-up! This bookmarklet works better for me than the Notebook extension for FF. I found the extension clumsy to use, but the bookmarklet is great. I have saved it to Roboform2Go so that I can use it everywhere I go.

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  5. AnonymousJuly 16, 2008 at 5:04 AM

    no support for Opera, i thought Google was great... well... every1 gets it wrong once in a while

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  6. Alex ChituJuly 16, 2008 at 5:07 AM

    The bookmarklet doesn't support Opera because Google Notebook itself doesn't work in Opera, even if you change the user-agent. From what I can tell, you can't add notes or edit the existing notes in Opera.

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  7. blackwetaJanuary 11, 2009 at 6:20 PM

    For some reason, can't drag the bookmarklet in either Chrome 2 or Firefox 3.

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  8. greenteaMay 19, 2009 at 12:35 AM

    Thanks for the FF addon tip. I found the extension clumsy to use, but the bookmarklet is great.nice idea of sharing link, thanks, it will really be useful.

    Green Tea

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  9. AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 10:56 PM

    Kinda funny that I came by this much later. Anyway, don't know if it was different back then but at this moment Opera (11.50) does support the bookmarklet (Google Notebook is now discontinued, though).

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