Google Apps Hacks

40 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

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page, a note reading “We need more cat content!” was added. The link below the note was generated

by dragging and dropping a link from that page into the note; in similar fashion, you can also copy

text found on any page.

Also, on Google search result pages, you will now nd a link reading “Note this” below snippets,

as shown in Figure 2-12. Click it and the link turns into a “Duly noted” message, and a Notebook

window pops up adding the result link and snippet as a new note (on Google results pages, this

works even when you don’t have the Notebook browser extension installed).

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To share your notes with friends, family, or other members of your team, select your notebook

on the Notebook home page and click the “Sharing options” link on top. You can then invite

collaborators by listing their emails one by one (comma-separated) and clicking the “Save Settings”

button. (Note that people you invite do not need the Notebook browser extension, though they

do need a Google Account to sign in.) Jane, the user I’ve invited in Figure 2-13, will now receive an

invitation email and can then edit along in the same notebook, at the same time I do. After a short

delay (a few seconds, or whenever you select Tools→Refresh), any changes made are synchronized

on both ...