Web Notes is a online note taking tool. As you can see, it allows you to highlight various pages, blog posts or academic articles you find online. If you’re like me, taking notes as you read is critical for remembering key points and capturing your own thoughts. Writing notes as you read may help increase your chance of recalling the material. Now, you’re done recording your notes, what’s next?
How about organizing those same notes and highlighted sections of whatever it was you found worthy of highlighting. But it doesn’t stop there, now you want to share it with a friend, professor or blogging buddy; Web Notes can help you this with its share your comments feature.
How I Use Web Notes:
- Personal filing folder. Track interesting quotes, concepts, blogging tips and so on. I create specific folders and organize content accordingly- things that pertain to my blogging, site, writing and so on.
- Academic. While sitting in class last month, the professor said something about a scholar I like (of course I didn’t agree). I used web notes to highlight various points in an online article that pertained to that scholar and topic. Next, I took notes as I read this long article (helpful, some forget what they read sooner than others). Then I sent an email to this professor with the article I read, includes annotated points and my personal comments/feedback.
- Blogging. I can’t share all the goodies- well… okay, I’ll play nice. When reading blog posts I find valuable and worthy of a quality comment (long comments don’t always make good comments), I’ll record my thoughts on a Sticky Note (a sweet feature offered by Web Notes). I understand this isn’t a popular thing to do as most people skim (speed read) and quickly move to the next site. When the time comes to comment, I have my favorite points and ideas in front of my eyes to quickly review or copy and paste into the comment section.
- Review and Share your findings. This is where bookmarking quite doesn’t do it for me. Don’t get me wrong- I use Delicious and Foxmarks (now Xmarks) but I want to return to the sites and articles I’ve read and relive what I thought or felt about that particular blog post or article. Web Notes allows me to do so. At the end of the month or year, I can easily throw together a collection of thoughts, lessons learned and so on (to share with my blog readers).
- What Else?
If you’re a Web Notes (blog) user (if not- let me know, will send invite), please share how Web Notes has benefited your blogging, organization, work or school work.
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That’s a great tool, considering about the relentless browsing through sites, it could help me to be more organized while keeping the valuable info at hand. Thanks, Miguel. ^^
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Ching Ya,
Yeah, web notes is a sweet service. Being able to keep that specific valuable info at hand is quite helpful. Glad you like it!
This is part of what the blogosphere is about, sharing tools and resources with each other- those things we find useful and helpful. Thanks for visiting.
-Mig
Could I have an invite? This definitely sounds like something I’d like to try.
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Dennis,
Hey hey, welcome… you bet. I’ll be sure to send ya one. Thanks for visiting by and asking.
-mig
Got it!
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Sweet! Enjoy it Dennis.
When google stopped development on google notebook, I started looking for new tools with same features …. will check this out ..
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Hi dinu,
Yeah, that was a disappointment.
However, with a service like web notes, google notebook what? 
Interested in knowing how it works out for you. Thanks for commenting.
-Mig
Hi Miguel,
Great article! I’ll post the link on twitter now
Thanks again and let me know if there’s anything else you need.
Alex,
You bet, web notes is an awesome service because of its simplicity and functions.
-Mig
Looks pretty sweet. I will have to check this out. Thanks!
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@DS
I agree. Have fun and be productive!
Let us know what you think. thanks!
-Mig
Hi Friend,
Web Notes looks interesting. Do you have any more invitations?
Thanks for turning me on to this new tool.
Don
Hey Don,
I sent ya the invite! Did you get it okay? Enjoy man.
-Mig
I tried EverNote but it wasn’t quite the way I’ve expected it to be. WebNotes seems to be a pretty good alternative to keep me sane with all the information coming through my head.
Do you actually need an invitation code, Mig? Oh, thanks for the heads up anyway. I love the idea of “Go green. Make notes online”…..
Yan
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Yan,
Yeah, I’ll sent you an invite my friend.
Thanks for dropping by… it’s nice to see folks are interested.
-Mig
That’s a great tool, and awesome service. I have been also looking for something with similar features since google stopped development on google notebook. Thanks for sharing this
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Hi Salwa,
Yeah, others have been saying the thing- glad you found this useful. Did you need an invite? Thanks for visiting and commenting.
Cheers!
-Mig
Phew… hectic day.. sometimes you just gotta feel grateful for having these cute and nice gadgets that help you fight against the To-Do lists. Thanks again Mig, I guess I owe you a big thanks. You guys should really try this Web Notes out!
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Hey Ching Ya,
I hear ya… I know what those days are like but now we’re on spring break (from classes). However, sadly enough, the grind remains. Will relax but still have much to be accountable for. Taking it in stride, adjusting, learning and hopefully, improving one small step at a time.
Cheers to you and oh yeah, no worries! anytime, glad I could somehow help. Thanks again for visiting and sharing.
-Mig
I would love an invite!
me too.
can you send me a invitation? thanks
rosa
Hi Rosa,
Did you get your invite?
Wow, great tool. Thanks for telling us about it. Writing notes is a great way to remember stuff longer.
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Hi Teen Web
You’re welcome, Web notes helps me to stay organized, keep track of reads, thoughts and research, related material for school. Thanks for visiting! Let us know how it goes with Web Notes.
Cheers!
WebNotes is great. Unfortunately, I had to wait for some time until I got on their list. I did not realize that you could have sent me an invite.
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