Hee hee! Maybe that title will cause a tiny little stir in the blogosphere.
It’s not actually dead, you see. It’s just pining. Pining for the fjords.
No, it’s not even pining for the fjords. Google have just stopped active development on it. That’s all. Well, all so far. But everyone is seeing the writing on the wall and making the move to other pastures. Well, even that’s not quite true. It seems an awful lot of people are writing about moving to greener pastures. An awful lot of people. Still, helped me out a bit, they did. I shan’t name them all. Too many you see.
Trouble is that none of the other services proferred come even close to what Google Notebook (GN, I’ll just call it GN from now on, okay?) was, err, is. GN was, is, in a nutshell, simple. It did, err does, about two things.
- Allows you to clip web pages or parts thereof into a note.
- Allows you to edit and arrange those notes.
That was it really (look screw this business with getting the tense right, okay? It’s past tense for me now). Pretty simple, but pretty functional. No hierarchies, but easily moved and collapsed sections. I found it ideal for collating and then reading material for my podcasts. Clip it in, edit and organise a bit, then prior to recording, close up all the sections I don’t need and I’m ready to go.
But I decided I should move on sooner rather than later. Better to suffer the pangs of uncertainty, the trials and tribulations of whichever new service, with GN still sitting there to fall back on should the need arise. And so I recently set about looking at some alternatives.
And now I’ve picked one. And I’ve deleted all my Google Notebooks, sorry, GNs. All done and dusted. Oh, I moved all my content over first.
Wot? That’s the end of the story? Yep. It’s the end. But there’s more to the middle, being how I arrived at that replacement, what’s different about it, what works, what doesn’t and more.
You see, this is a teaser post. I spoke all about it on episodes 130 and 131 of The SittingDuck Podcast. If you want the rest of the story I’m going to make you go and listen to it. 