Wed, 20 Jun 2007
Tags: google notebook, stikkit, basecamp
Not that any of you care, but my playing around with sites like Basecamp, Stikki t and now Google Notebook continue. I still like stikkit.com although I don't use it as much anymore. I really like to use it on my laptop and when I get home to my tired old linux box it's slow for me so I tend to forget about it at times. Basecamp's been fine but I'm don't like very nitpicky things- like not being able to print my project milestones in the calendar view. I'm using that site to try to manage a small project at work, and letting people see the calendar view of the milestones can get them off my back (not that they're on it) - yet I can't print it and stick it (ha, no pun) outside of my cube. But Google Notebook has been pretty nice to use and seems to have TONS of potential. I was basically using it to stay on top of apartment searches. I downloaded a browser extension for GN and set up a custom RSS search feed for apartment listings. Using either a new notebook or one notebook let me add more detail or "clip" the listing which was pretty handy. You can clip things and make them public, let others add/collaborate to the shared notebook, or keep them private and add your own dirtly little notes to your own clippings. Here's an example of a clipped article on a public notebook. You can see some information about not only what I clipped, but where it came from as well. In your private notebooks it comes in handy- especially when you forget to add comments to yourself about why you clipped that thing to begin with. Give it a try when you're working remotely on a late-running patch upgrade- like me! 20 Jun 08:08 | /tech | 2 comment(s)
