Yesterday I stumbled upon Notefish.com, which is another site that is supposed to make note taking from web pages easier and quicker. I have tried Google Notebook, Evernote, Kaboodle and each experiment did not last long due to some reason or another. But Notefish seems to be better than each of those, and does in fact make note taking painless.
To get started, you need to install Notefish extension for your browser (Firefox and IE only), signup for their account, and start saving you data. Initially a project needs to created to which sections and notes can be added. Taking notes is really easy. Select your text and right click to copy you data to your current project or if you want to save to another project you have an option for that. Notefish creates the note including your selected photos, text, and site URL with the current date.
Real value addition by Notefish is done at the backend where you can rearrange you sections and notes. Other project features include- Notes can be easily dragged from one section to another, notes can be dragged-dropped to other projects, note header text color can be modified for better visibility, note width can be adjusted, projects can be tagged. You can easily share your project by making it public or share it for a limited time (1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks). Projects can also be password protected in either case. Tagged public projects can be searched or you can use tag cloud to navigate quickly. Take a look at Laptop Research and Trip to New York City projects that show the real value of Notefish.
Notefish has added an unobtrusive Google Adsense block on each page, but otherwise is free to use. Among the earlier products I had really liked Evernote, but it is a paid product if you want to sync your notes across multiple machines. If you don’t care much about Evernote’s handwriting recognition part, Notefish seems to be a better choice.
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Tags: StartupSquad, Web2.0, Web_2.0, Office2.0, Collaboration, Notefish
