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As we knew, Google stopped the development of Google Notebook. Though lots of alternatives exist, no one satisfies me (see below for the reasons). Many suggest Google to open source it, but Google didn't response by so far. So I'd like to turn to open source world to develop one. In a nutshell, Google Notebook attracts me in the following ways:
Every notes of a certain notebook present in the form of "list" intuitively. Notes can be dragged to rearrange and organized into Sections, meanwhile notes and sections can be collapsed and expanded easily. To the best of my knowledge, no other note taking software or web service functions like that.
Need to begin a new note? Just move the mouse cursor to any "blank strip" between two notes and click--a new note will emerge there, waiting for your edition, or you can change it into Section freely. No need for the stupid "New Note" button or anything of the kind, and you can always make your new note in the exact place you want. That's the best part that Google Notebook offers, and that I'd like to seek for in the world of existed open source projects.
Well, these are the most valuable things I'd like to have in my new note taking software. Please tell me which open source projects I should learn for, whether web-based (e.g. PHP projects) or executable software (cross-platform is better) will be OK. Thanks very much.
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Azure notebooks by Microsoft is very similar to Colab in terms of functionality. Both platforms have a cloud sharing functionality available for free. Azure Notebooks wins in terms of speed and is much better than Colab in this regard. It has a memory of 4 gigabytes.
Google Colaboratory is a freemium tool offered by Google Research that allows users to write and execute Python code in their web browsers. Colab is actually based on the Jupyter open source, and essentially allows you to create and share computation files without having to download or install anything.
Google Colab It is easier to use as we can link it up with both google drive and github from where we can load data sets, files and images. We can also export our code directly to our github repo. While using tensor flow google colab offers TPUs instead of GPUs which are way more faster than any GPU in kaggle.
For that, Android tops our list of Google open source projects. Most people are familiar with the Chrome browser, but it’s much lesser known that Chrome is based on an open source project known as Chromium.
At Google, we use open source to innovate and we release open source to share our innovations. We encourage you to browse through our featured projects to find work to use, share, and build on!
Protocol Buffers is another of Google’s projects that is receiving a lot of attention on GitHub. Google Web Toolkit an open source development toolkit that’s used for creating and optimizing intricate browser-based applications. Internally, it’s used by many Google products, including Google AdWords. Google has built its empire on Linux systems.
Eric Raymond's wonderful book "The Art of Unix Programming" has some reflections on this issue (the whole book is well worth reading in either the paper or free online editions, I'm just pointing to the relevant section -- Eric was involved with the coining and introduction of the term "open source", and is always well worth reading;-0).
Closest thing I've found was WorkFlowy. Dividing things into categories is not as straightforward (you need to create "subnotes"), but otherwise the interface and the features are similar (although I still prefer Google Notebook's).
Will give OneNote a try as well. If the OneNote webapp is any good, I might end up going in that direction.
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the tomboy project guys are developing a django-based web client with and additional api for desktop-sync. it looks interesting. check it out:
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Well, there's Chandler. My first thought when I saw Google Notebook was that Chandler had better get its ass in gear...
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I have been using Zim-Wiki for along time, really liked it. Will evaluate chandler. Actually we all read articles takes notes, and wish a smiple but powerful desktop wiki or notebook.
Zim-wiki doesnot start a page by clinking over a empty space, as its not ajax based. Anyways here's a set of tools i use to keep my notes.
I have not found a one-solution product as of now. I hope someone provides a better integrated product.
Zim is extra-simple, usual keyboard shortcuts and intuitive layout , thus hardly any learning cure. It is cross platform, and i share my same common notebook across my windows and linux.
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