Network Monitoring and Management

Have you discovered Google notebook yet? It’s a tool that will help make you more productive.

When I do web research for MTD Systems I typically favorite lots of things and cut and paste information into documents and save them into folders. At the end of it all I have something that will help me that day and that I want to keep - so it sits there on my computer. Over a short period of time my browser favorites fills up - even if I use folders and I have lots of documents around on my computer that, despite my best efforts, have names that make no sense to me unless I open them.

With Google Notebook I still search and find the data I want, then mark the section I’m interested in and right click. Google notebook has added an entry for itself to the context menu. You can see the marked area I want to save and the notebook menu item selected below:

When I press enter the selected area goes into a Google notepad entry, weblink, picture, text and all. Now I can save it in a particular ‘Notebook’ along with other information I grab along the way.

When I’m done I have information organized in folders - that I can use a full Google search with keywords and phrases on that allows me to find what I have put away. Not only that but since it’s on the internet I can go between office/home/friends house or wherever and always be able to hook up with the information again.

It’s made a great difference to me. Not all of those bookmarks that I can’t recall making, notes from the site as well as anything I care to add, and I can get to it from anywhere.

Go to www.google.com/notebook and you can get it set up. If you don’t have a gmail account you’ll need to set that up first, but it’s all free and a simple but great resource.

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