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Anyone else remember Google Notebook? Yeah, they killed that too. Pretty much Evernote before Evernote got big.

No thanks, Google.




Yeah, notebook was one of the first times I was seriously starting to use a 3rd party service, then it was yanked. And now it's back, as 'keep'. And in 2-3 years it'll be gone again. And Reader will be back as some 'feature' in Google Drive (or it'll be called 'Docs' again, or still remain as 'Docs' as some of the google drive/docs pages still point out).


I used Google Notebook extensively and wasn't surprised. It was laden with layout issues and paste with styles bugs. It was great while it lasted, but I personally didn't find it that shocking when it was closed.

There were plenty of other notebooks on the internet that actually had more features that worked better, a lot of them had methods to import from Google Notebook as well. Notebook was fading with Google Docs gaining steam (and I know they both had different feature sets).

They did keep Google Notebook running for a fairly significant time before they finally closed the doors and migrated the data to Drive.


I loved Notebook and have yet to find something comparable.


So this is a Google Notebook version 2 remade based on what they learnt the first time. I only see benefits.




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