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Fifty Ways to Take Notes

I am constantly writing notes. Whether it be for my blog, work, meeting, new ideas, or just basic notes, I am always jotting something down. So I started thinking about all the services I’ve used for taking notes and thought it would be a good idea to share them with you and while I’m at it, to make a list of any others that I find. Now, when it comes to note taking, I personally look for quick and simple. If I have something on my mind, I don’t want to go through some advanced system and climb a mountain just to save a note for myself. There won’t be all the note taking tools out there on my list, but ones that I feel get the job done well. Quick Public Pages Using a quick public page service, as I call it, is my favorite method of saving notes on the go. Some are simply a text field on a page that you fill and in click save, others allow you to record notes to a service directly through Instant Messaging with AIM, and some are full planners for creating well outlined documents. * ShortText - Fill in your text, click save, and you’ve got yourself a permanent url to a text note. Includes private pages as well. * YourDraft - Create and share content using a rich text editor (WYSIWYG) instantly without registration. * Cl1p.net - The Internet Clipboard. Copy and paste between computers. * Sabifoo - (Personal favorite) Simply use an Instant Message client (ie: AIM), message “sabifoo”, and your message is recorded online to a permanent link and RSS feed. * Deusto - A new service for the creation of small web pages (digital books) in a simple and fast manner. * Backpack - Organize to do lists, notes, images, photos and share. * BareWiki - Build your own website and easily allow others to edit it. * Infogami - Build good-looking, easily-editable web sites. * Zoho Planner - An online organizer to Plan & Organize yourself. * Change To Link - Easily create a page of information to bookmark or share with friends. * PasteHere - Make pastes from screenshots of your desktop, code from your clipboard, or any other image/text. Pages last for 15 days unregistered user / 30 days registered user. Basic Note Taking Quick public pages aren’t really made for note-taking, although they work really well for it. Here are a few services and applications that are meant for note taking. * Pianist - Simple memo manager helping you save your ideas. * JotCloud - Jot down notes in a cloud of sticky notes online. * Web Note - Quickly takes notes with an online post-it like interface. * Performancing Firefox - Meant for blogging, although it has a section for saving notes and drafts that works rather well. * Forty Internet Notebook - (Note: Service sadly may not be live much longer) Simple and categorized place for you to keep notes saved hierarchically. * Backpack - Organize to do lists, notes, images, photos and share. * JotSpot Live - JotSpot Live allows you, your colleagues or clients to take notes together on the same web page at the same time. * TaskToy - More for to-do lists, but also features searchable notes and memos. * Zoho Planner - An online organizer to Plan & Organize yourself. * Campfire - Although meant for chatting, Campfire also works great for taking notes! Read this How-To. * SyncNotes - “Your notes. Anywhere. Anyhow.” * Yahoo! Notepad - Yahoo! Notepad is very simple, especially when using this handy Notepad Bookmarklet. * Google Desktop Scratch Pad - Although Scratch Pad requires the Google Desktop software, I find myself using this little plugin all the time. Just type and it saves automatically. Development I’m a programmer and when I’ve got an idea on my mind for a script or code snippet, I want to get it down ASAP. I find that collaborative programming services, like Pastebin, or just a service that lets you save a script and share works perfectly. These are like quick public pages, but for programmers. * Pastebin - Collaborate on debugging code snippets and receive permanent links to code snippets. * TNX - “Simple web service for temporary text storage. A unique URL is generated, that can be easily pasted in a message, but is hard to guess.” * TextSnippets - Public source code repository in that you can tag and categorize code. You may also set snippets as private. * PasteHere - Make pastes from screenshots of your desktop, code from your clipboard, or any other image/text. Pages last for 15 days unregistered user / 30 days registered user. * Nopaste - Pastebin with Syntax Highlighting for PHP Programming. Online Documents I found that there are times that simple text notes just don’t always fit my needs. There may be a note or part of a document that I need to save with text formatting, colors, and headings, but most note-taking services are text-only. In time, I started using services like Writeboard more and more because I can just down notes with it during a conference adding headings and lists making reading my notes a lot more organized. Makes sense, so I decided to make a list of a few. * Writeboard - (I find I use this often because of Basecamp integration for work) Collaborative writing software online. Write, share, revise, compare. You can share by email invitation only. * Writely - Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and blog them online. * Rallypoint - (I use this for project notes often) Rallypoint combines the powerful features of your favorite desktop word processor with the collaborative abilities of a secure hosted wiki, giving you the best of both worlds. * Zoho Writer - Online tool to create a document, edit in your way, and share with anyone. * WideWord - Write and share documents easily, quickly and privately! * YourDraft - Create and share content instantly without registration. The WYSIWYG editor allows fast and flexible drafting. * gOffice Word Processing - gOffice has a nice Word Processor that I’ve only used once before, but worked well then. (Update: Just tested again and it seemed to have made an error when exporting, but works for saving still. Seems to work fine now) Voice Recording Don’t think your stuck with typing all your notes on a computer when it comes to note taking. Sometimes it’s just simpler to speak something out loud rather then writing and although the following services aren’t meant for taking notes specifically, they seem to work quite well. Sure, they are for emailing and podcasting, but that’s not stopping me! * Evoca - Evoca is excellent for recording podcasts, but it also seems to work for notes as well because when you record, it simply saves it to a list in that you can listen to at any time. They are private until published. * Odeo - For podcasting as well, but as does Evoca, Odeo’s podcast recorder also works well and saves your recordings as podcasts which you can easily listen to at any time. They are also private until published. * Springdoo - Springdoo allows you to send voice email, as does Slawesome. When you make a recording with Springdoo, it will allow you to preview the recording and send the address to others. Simple bookmark the address or send it to yourself. * Slawesome - Meant for emailing voice recordings, but I simply email myself and mark it in my email client as an important note in my memo folder. (Update: Voice recording does not appear to be working as of now, although the emails still send along with your note. It will save, but won’t play it seems.) Start Pages What better place to write notes then a start page that opens every time you open your web browser? As I mentioned the other day, I now have Netvibes as my homepage for my browser and I found that I use the Webnote module quite often. Most start pages include note functionality, but I’ll list a few favorites with note modules. * Netvibes - My start page of choice which has a simple Webnote module with auto-saving and multi-color selection. * PageFlakes - Personalized start page with notes and many “flakes” bringing the web to your fingertips. * Protopage - A very neat start page allowing for notes and drag and drop containers for just about anything. Also allows for making multiple pages and setting pages public. * Fold - Allows for adding of multiple Notepad Containers which you can drag and drop any where in your Fold Start Page. * Google Personalized - Google’s Personalized start page works great for notes when using the Google Notes Module that saves your notes automatically. Online Databases Online database services can also be used for managing notes. I’ve made a system in Dabble DB and Zoho Creator for notes which I have made to my liking because I choose what is recorded. Any of the following will allow you to create your own database application for recording your notes. * Dabble DB - (Private Beta) Dabble DB is the most powerful service of the bunch with large customization options and application flexibility. Can’t wait for it to go public so everyone can experience it’s power. * TracksLife - “Your Friendly, Personal, Online Spread-abase.” Very simple system that works very well. Also allows for public tracks and rss feeds. * Zoho Creator - Free online service to create and share web applications with just a few mouse clicks. Very customizable. * FlexLists - Create your own online sharable lists with this database like service allowing for custom fields and values. * Lazybase - Lazybase allows anyone to design, create and share a database of whatever they like. That about wraps it up! I hope this list was of help for anyone looking for simple solutions on taking notes. As always when I make a list, if you know of any other services, feel free to share with us in the comments. And for those of you curious as to what solutions I use most often, I tend to use Google Scratch Pad, Netvibes, and Writeboard the most and have recently become addicted to Sabifoo. What ones do you use? Like this Article?

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nstapaper On a given day, I have about 30 tabs open in my browser for resources I want to view when I have time. It's a bit of a pain and can slow computer performance. Enter Instapaper - install a simple button in your browser and save it to a website (your personal "paper") for later reading. What would be cool, as David Weinberger mentions, is the ability to make your own personal reading list public. Posted by gsiemens at February 2, 2008 12:30 PM | TrackBack Comments Doesn't Google Notebook do what you want? Not only can you save the URL at the click of a button but also a "clip" of the content on the page you're adding -- as well as your own notes. You can share your Notebook pages (on a page by page basis) with anyone who has a Google account. You can add the Notebook "button" to your browser and/or the Google toolbar. http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/tour1.html Backflip has been prividing a save a URL at the click of a button service since at least 2001. URLs are saved in Folders -- and you can make a Folder public to other Backflip members. http://www.backflip.com/ I'm sure there are lots of other tools that do what you want. Posted by: Don Morrison at February 3, 2008 10:50 AM George, I use Google Notebooks and del.icio.us for collecting online information for later reading. I will check out instapaper to see if it is simpler. Richard Learn2Day.com Posted by: Richard Sheehy at February 3, 2008 10:16 PM I just discovered Instapaper, too, and while I use and still like del.icio.us, Instapaper has a nice simplicity to it that is working well for me. Posted by: Trina Cole at February 5, 2008 5:42 PM What I like about Instapaper that I don't like about Google Notebooks and del.icio.us is that Instapaper clears the link out of your unread section once you've clicked on the link. I use it for things I might want to read once and then never look at again. For example I have several friends who write fiction which I want to remember to read and comment on later so I use Instapaper for that. And to bookmark discussions/comics that refer to a TV show or movie that I haven't seen yet so I can return after I've seen it. Posted by: Tanya at February 6, 2008 2:08 AM I use Firefox extension called scrapBook, which allows offline reading, too. Posted by: Teemu Arina at February 9, 2008 7:01 AM I have been using Instapaper in conjunction with Ma.gnolia. The difference between Instapaper and de.licio.us/ma.gnolia is that I use ma.gnolia to STORE bookmarks that I want to keep. I use instapaper to mark things I that I haven't read and don't have time to read at the moment but know for sure I want to read at some point. Posted by: John Lascurettes at March 19, 2008 4:22 PM

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Web Worker Daily » Archive Evernote Wants to be Your Longterm Memory «

There are plenty of note-taking applications out there; we’ve reviewed a fair number of them. So what makes the new beta version of Evernote stand out? For starters, they support a good number of clients, all synchronizing the same data: web, Windows, Mac, Mobile web, and Windows Mobile. But potentially more important in the long run are their plans to improve your memory as time goes by. If they can pull off this plan, they’ll be in the position of offering value in the future based on actions you take today, which is a nice place for any business to be. Evernote organizes your notes into notebooks, which can be public or private. Procedures may differ depending on which client you’re using, but you can add notes by typing in text, by clipping information from your web browser, by taking screenshots, or by sending email to your account. Notes can be tagged, searched by all sorts of attributes, and synchronized between various devices and Evernote clients. But the real key to Evernote’s long-term success lies in their notion of “recognizers.” Right now the one that has gotten the most notice is their text-in-image recognizer. If you upload an image (whether clipped from the web or taken with your cell phone’s camera), Evernote will scan it for text - printed or handwritten - and add this text to the searchable text for the note. So if you capture a picture of a cocktail napkin from “Joe’s Lounge” you can find that picture in the future by searching for “Lounge”. The text-in-image recognizer works very well. I was able to confuse it, but only with things like a picture of a road sign that was filled with bullet holes. On street scene photos, it managed to pick out text on buildings and even in neon signs - all in all a quite impressive performance. But the real key to Evernote’s potential lies in their plans for future recognizers. The company is working on several of these, and when they’re ready to ship one, they also intend to run it over the entire corpus of data that Evernote users have already saved. For example, if and when they add facial recognition to the product, any faces you’ve ever saved should be recognized for searching. It’s an interesting idea. If they can pull it off, then it makes sense now to start shoving everything you collect into Evernote - web clippings, scans of receipts, photos of everyone at every meeting you attend - with the hope that any time you’re trying to remember something, you’ll be able to find it again in Evernote. The game plan here is to make the service your offline memory. And unlike your real memory, it will just keep getting better as you age.

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Web Worker Daily » Archive Instapaper: Bookmarking Elegance for Web Workers «

Instapaper: Bookmarking Elegance for Web Workers January 31st, 2008 (7:14am) Bob Walsh 7 Comments If web site bookmarking is something you do day in and day out, there’s a new bookmarking tool you need to add to your browser - Instapaper (via TechCrunch). The side project of Marco Arment, creator of the very cool micro-blogging service Tumbir, Instapaper is online bookmarking that gets out of your way so you can bookmark the way you need to when you spend your working day on the web. Back in the early days of the World Wide Web, bookmarks were okay as a means of noting the one page you found in your 30 minutes a day on the web, but did not scale well as the hours you spent web surfing grew. As the web grew, social bookmarking tools like del.icio.us and digg took the approach that the power of online collaboration was worth the extra clicks and time to give you at least some way of gathering the pages you wanted to return to. But if you just needed to bookmark dozens of pages in the course of your workday, and you didn’t necessarily want to share those finds with the entire world, your only real alternative was to keep dumping bookmarks into your browser until it you had a ridiculously bloated toolbar. Instapaper is personal bookmarking evolved. You sign up with your email (or anything else you want to use, no password necessary), get a bookmarklet you stick in your toolbar and you’re good to go. Then when you hit a page you need to read later, you click the Instapaper bookmarklet, a window briefly pops up saying “Saved!” then goes away and you’re done. No time wasted going off to some other page; no breaking your train of thought to fill in a form. Back at Instapaper, here’s what you find: Instapaper While you can add a note to a URL, why bother? Instapaper has reduced bookmarking to its absolute minimum, and that means bookmarking can finally scale. If you’re interested, here’s my very modest hack for Instapaper - don’t just create one account. I created 3 - one for each of the main areas of my life. Now when I’m in surfing mode, I can with one click add a page to my personal web newspaper: Instapaper hack Update: I asked Marco how he came to write Instapaper: “I wrote Instapaper, quite simply, because I needed it myself. Having recently started using a smartphone, I noticed that there were plenty of times that I wanted to read long-form content while idle - I spend about 90 minutes on trains every day. I also frequently find online articles that are too long to read at that moment, but that I’d truly like to read at some point. Instapaper is the simplest possible solution that solves both of those problems for me - and as it happens, a lot of other people have found it useful, too.” What about scalability?: “I’m really not concerned about scalability. The site costs nearly nothing to run, and its server has plenty of excess capacity. It’s also just a very simple site, so I can serve many times its current traffic without any infrastructure expansion. Exceeding the capacity of affordable hosting is a problem I’d love to have. Okay, how about new features?: “I’ll add an RSS feed in the coming days, since it’s a popular request and it’s trivial to implement. As for further expansion or advertising, I haven’t decided yet. It’s a very simple tool, and much of its appeal and usefulness is in its simplicity. I’d rather not add functionality unless it’s simple, it fits with the product, and I can implement it well.” Tags: bookmarks, Instapaper

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