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Zoho Notebook - ROAR!
May 23, 2007
A new site has emerged from the most excellent development folks over at Zoho. How high would I rate the site? Let me put it this way....this new tool gets such a high rating for use in school libraries that I have had to invent an entire rating system just so I could rate it this highly. Let's give it a big ROAR! - Run Out And Register!
After a few months in a private beta, like a beautiful butterfly,
Zoho Notebook emerged yesterday to make the world a better place. Pulling together a whole set of research and writing tools,
Zoho Notebook is your new best place to get started for projects. The basic idea behind the tool is to provide you with a digital notebook whose pages you can fill with content. The content may be an image, video, or audio file; a dynamic RSS feed from another site; or even an imported Zoho Writer file.
The real secret with Zoho's Notebook is that it is a digital notebook. Taking notes on 3x5 cards works, but for some reason my paper notecards just don't seem to dynamically update when new content is released by a source site. Being able to include an RSS feed as a research location means Zoho Notebook can continue to do research even after you log off. The ability to store links and add quick annotation text fields makes this a great place to organize notes for a research project. Students could drop in images they plan on using for a presentation and also gather all of the citation information.
When the research is done and students are ready to move into the writing process, Zoho Notebook can still be the main access page for the project. The
recently reviewed MindMeister's free account allows the creation and exportation of graphical organizers as images...and Zoho Notebook just happens to allow images to be placed on pages. If students are building traditional outlines or just getting started with their writing, Zoho Notebook's fully integrated use of
Zoho Writer makes that a snap. A full featured online word processor (which you better believe includes spell check!) on its own, Zoho Writer is also fully compatible with Word's .doc format for easy importing and exporting.
To get started, go to http://notebook.zoho.com. If you have registered for another Zoho tool before, your regular Zoho ID will work. Otherwise, registration is a snap, with only an e-mail address required. Just click on the link to "Sign Up." This really is a site that could become the basis of your entire research and writing process. From note taking through final desktop publishing, Zoho Notebook has the tools to aggregate and facilitate what you are trying to accomplish. Check back next time for a walk-through tutorial on getting started with a Zoho Notebook powered research project!
As noted above, this new tool gets a definite
ROAR! - Run Out And Register!
Posted by Chris Harris on May 23, 2007 | Comments (4)
