How to research online and access your notes from any workstation

It’s another screencast — this episode is about using Google Notebook to quickly take notes on the fly while surfing the web, then accessing your notes from the studio, someone else’s workstation, or at home.


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9 Responses to “How to research online and access your notes from any workstation”

    Dave says:

    Tod that’s gotta be the sweetest plugin yet. Thanks
    emmaursula says:

    Excellent resource, thanks for presenting it. How are you making these video lessons? the format is good, voice and screen manipulation. Great teaching tool.
    Tod says:

    Thanks emmaursula,

    I use a program called iShowU for the Mac. And I actually did that piece on a Mac, now that Macs can run Windows too. Crazy world.
    Mark says:

    Tod, Are you aware of the privacy implications of storing research online? Quite apart from the possibility that someone might accidentally or illegally access your notes, or that Google might screw up and make them available to the public, is the possibility that the US government could gain access to Google’s computers under the US Patriot Act (because Google’s servers are on US soil). I use Google services for innocuous personal emailing, etc but I can’t imagine storing research there.
    Mark
    TheChaz says:

    Mark, you come off a tad paranoid. Ultimately privacy questions come along with storing information anywhere other than one’s own head, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use Notebook. Best to think of it as a continum of privacy levels with “your head” on one end and, perhaps “skywriting” on the other. I don’t think I’d put “on a google server” anywhere near the less secure side of that gradient.
    Michael Tyas says:

    This screencast would look a lot better if you had a higher frame rate and used a video host which preserves the original resolution and doesn’t cover your video with a logo, such as http://blip.tv

    I hate that everyone is jumping onto the YouTube bandwagon and settling for crap!
    JES says:

    This will be incredibly useful. Many thanks. This is the first screencast I have seen. Will watch for more.
    "Tod Maffin shows you how to use Google Notebook" from Pro PR says:

    [...] Tod Maffin discovered Google Notebook a while ago. And he’s posted a great how to video for anyone interested in seeing how Google video can be used for online research. [...]
    thornley says:

    Tod,

    Thanks for the great introduction to Google Notebook. Reading the documentation is good. Seeing someone actually set it up and use it is much better.

    I’ve posted about it at http://www.propr.ca/index.php/2006/tod-maffin-shows-you-how-to-use-google-notebook/ so that my readers will discover your excellent series.