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Set up your Google Notebook to copy snippets and jot down

thoughts while surng the Web.

You can think of Google Notebook as a lightweight sibling of Google Docs. As both a browser extension

and a feature added to your Google search results, a Google Notebook is something you “carry around”

while surng; it lets you save small pieces of text or links for future reference. You can also use it as a

collaborative tool for projects in which a whole team is doing research on a specic topic.

Let’s just imagine our topic at hand is pets and pet food, for our new web site

PetFoodInfo.example.com, and that we want to acquire more information in preparation for building

the site. We’ll start by heading over to the Google Notebook home page at http://google.com/

notebook to install Notebook. After signing in with your Google Account  and agreeing to the

terms of service, the download for the Google Notebook browser extension will start. (Accept the

security dialog if one pops up, and reopen all browser windows if you’re asked to.)

At the time of this writing, the browsers currently supported are Internet Explorer 6 and later (Windows XP

only) and Firefox 1.5+ (Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux).

Now when you visit the Notebook home page, you can create a new notebook and title it “Pets and

pet food.” Notes that ...