Digital notebooks are always tempting. With a host of exciting features I don’t know why they are not so popular as they should be. And we clearly need a disctinction between the many word processing utilities like the skinny Notepad to the very resourceful Word 2007. Though one can use them to (and many of us do) maintain reasonably well-off notes, they clearly lack the spirit of the online workflow. Think of embedding a audio in the notebook and the Word file won’t even open properely.   Well did I say audio. Maybe I was talking about Powerpoint. The word doesnt even have an option like that. So what does that signify? Well Word was always meant to be text-processing tool not a notebook. But in the current web2.0 era it is obvious that notes are not only about text, but involves all kinds of media. here comes the utility of notebooks. Well OneNote is clearly in your mind with its 2007 version offering a dazzling array of features making it the most useful notebook manager ever. But we are talking about the web 2.0 era right? So the primary criterion is that it have to be online. Forget about the many sharing features of OneNote. The thingy I am talking about is completely online.

The Zoho Notebook. Easy accesibilty anywhere around the world. True web 2.0.

Start a notebook and add anything: text, pictures, audio, video, sheets, files and even feeds to a page! Then share it with anyone you want. Share a page or selected pages or an entire notebook as well as create and share any number of notebooks.

Cool  links:                                                                                                                                            1. Web Worker Daily  An excellent write-up on the various online note-talking tools is available here.   

2.Solutionwatch  presents a collection of  50 note-taking tools suited for various purposes from around the web.