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Open Google Notebook in Firefox Sidebar

April 20, 2007 at 10:52 am · Online Tools, Popular Posts
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I like using Google’s Notebook feature but the extension they give you is a little lacking. I think it is too small and doesn’t allow me to open and shut it very quickly. What’s the solution? Well I took the Google personalized homepage widget for Google Notebook and added it to the sidebar of Firefox.

Google Notebook in Firefox Sidebar
 
This is much like the “Add Google Talk to the Firefox Sidebar” trick that was so popular a few weeks back.

  1. Create a new bookmark (right-click and select “Bookmark this link…”) for this address:

    http://www.google.com/notebook/ig?hl=__MSG_locale__

  2. Right-click on that bookmark and select “Properties”.
  3. Check the box that says, “Load this bookmark in sidebar” and you are good to go! It isn’t exactly rocket science so everybody should be able to enjoy this one.

Now you have a full note taking application to work with in your sidebar and it beats that tiny default extension Google provides you any day of the week.

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Laura M said,

April 22, 2007 @ 9:14 pm

This is the best tip I’ve read in a long time. I use Google Notebook a lot, so this tip is very practical. Thank You:-)

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April 24, 2007 @ 11:10 am

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Joan M.Mas said,

April 24, 2007 @ 12:16 pm

Wow! I love this kind of tips. Great! And after reading it, it was almost obvious –once you have had the wit to think about it in the first place!
Thanks for sharing it.

Evan said,

April 24, 2007 @ 12:40 pm

best tip I’ve read in ages.

thanks

Beady said,

April 24, 2007 @ 1:05 pm

Any chance you can make this work for Yahoo Bookmarks?

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Andrew Beacock said,

April 24, 2007 @ 4:47 pm

Beady, I’ve got it to work even though I use the del.icio.us bookmarks firefox extension.

Take a look in the View menu:

View->Sidebar->Bookmarks

If you original bookmarks appear prior to installing the del.icio.us extension then simply drag the tab of an open Google Notebook page to this side bar and then follow the above instructions to set it’s properties.

Works for me!

Jase said,

April 24, 2007 @ 7:40 pm

Absolute genius in its simplicity. Thanks mate, I owe you a beer.

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martin said,

April 25, 2007 @ 3:29 am

Brilliant little tip, thank you very much for this!

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desierk said,

April 25, 2007 @ 8:14 am

And works exactly the same in Opera browser!

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Alex Leonard said,

April 26, 2007 @ 3:41 am

This is nice, the only shame about it over the firefox extension is that it doesn’t allow you to “clip” notes from a page. A fairly minor issue, but thought I’d mention it anyway.

Nice one though. Cheers.

barbara said,

April 26, 2007 @ 12:23 pm

Gracias!!!!

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Pensador said,

May 23, 2007 @ 1:38 pm

Simple and effective. Thanks! :)

Ash Haque said,

July 5, 2007 @ 5:36 am

Good tip, simple, works like a charm

Aaron Cooke said,

July 15, 2007 @ 7:44 am

Thanks for the tip! I just made an extension that does the same and adds a toggle button (Works well with All in One Sidebar).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5345

It’s still in the sandbox at the moment.

Mitch said,

July 15, 2007 @ 7:58 am

Thanks for the heads up! When it is out for the public be sure to drop me a line and let me know. :)

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Nentuaby said,

August 3, 2007 @ 12:27 pm

Hot! Exactly what I needed, and dead simple. I wont even have to install a new extension on new computers I use- my bookmarks synchronizer will take care of it. :)
Thanks, that’s almost obvious in retrospect but I’d never have thought of it given my entire life. Part of the problem of being a developer- you always look for solutions that involve new code!

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Ix said,

November 25, 2007 @ 1:50 pm

Thanks quite a lot. Just made my life a million times easier. :)

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krv said,

December 14, 2007 @ 2:30 am

too good man, thanks

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Noel said,

January 14, 2008 @ 11:21 pm

Any way to stop the Google Notebook box from popping up on the bottom right of the screen though whenever I note a search result on Google.com?

eroq said,

February 20, 2008 @ 12:36 am

Wow. I have been using the google notebook plug in and it sucks compared to this. Interesting, you got that toggle feature to work so elegantly. And I am reminded that I can just cut and paste directly with your setup. It works way better!!!

Thank you from a chronically professional researcher!

RandyC said,

March 24, 2008 @ 9:34 pm

Take it one step further. One of my favorite tricks with Firefox bookmarks is to assign a keyword to each bookmark. Just go into the properties of the bookmark, and put in a short name for the keyword, like “notebook.”

Then, just type “notebook” for a url, and voila, there’s your notebook-sidebar.

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