I have been using Google Notebook for roughly the last 18 months to clip and save all kinds of information that I find on the web. Today, all of the major tech blogs reported that Google is eliminating some of their services. One of the services that slated to be phased out is Google Notebook. I had some conversations with other teachers on Twitter about using other online notebook programs. It seems that some people will give Zoho Notebook a try. In response to those conversations I made a short screencast demonstrating how to move content from Google Notebook to Zoho Notebook, you can see that screencast here.

I have always like Google Notebook for its Firefox add-on that allows me to clip a website’s url and add notes to my clipping without having to open a new tab or window. In addition to the Zoho Notebook add-on, the Drop.io Firefox add-on has the potential to replace Google Notebook as my prefered bookmarking and notetaking tool. This afternoon I installed the Drop.io add-on which allows me bookmark and write notes directly into one of my Drop.io drops by simply clicking a little “+ drop.io” icon my browser toolbar. In just a couple of hours of using the Drop.io add-on I can safely say that I do prefer it over the Zoho add-on.

Mozilla has a library containing 278 Firefox add-ons designed for bookmarking websites in one way or another. Some of add-ons in the library, like the Delicious add-on, I have used in the past others I have never heard of before. Over the next few days I’ll be trying out a bunch of the bookmarking add-ons in the Mozilla library and I’ll let you know which ones I like.

What is your favorite bookmarking and notetaking tool?