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It's been out for a while now, but today is the first time I heard of Google Notebook. It's a sticky-note type of application for the browser where the notes are saved on a server at Google. So I can create a note at work and go back home and read it.

One particularly nice feature of Google Notebook is that you can enable the "Note This" button. After enabling the button, every time you highlight a region on a web page a "Note This" button will appear near where your mouse is. Clicking on the button will automatically add the highlighted region to your notebook along with the title and a link to the page.

The "Note This" functionality is also available from the context menu.

For normal usage, the Google Notebook shows up as a small window in the lower right corner of the browser:

The small window can also be maximized to a whole page where more extensive editing can be performed. You can move your clippings around. You can edit the content of the notes. You can organize your notes into titled sections. You can also make your notebook public. Oh yeah, you can search your notebook and other public notebooks.

After 30 seconds of playing with Google Notebook, I'm pretty certain that I won't be tagging web pages in del.icio.us any more. I love the theory of the wisdom of the crowd and all. But come on, everybody knows their reason for tagging web pages is just so that they can come back to them later. Now that I can use Google Notebook to accomplish the same goal, there's no more reason to use del.icio.us anymore