Few days after Google announce that no further development on Google Notebook, Zoho step up with the new Zoho Notebook plugin with lots more features. After installed the Zoho Notebook icon will appear at the right bottom of the status bar. I have hands on with it couple of time, and this is steps by steps how to use it. Make sure you have installed the plugin prior that.
Capture text
- Close any Zoho Notebook opened on your web browser.
- Hightlight the desired text , right click, anywhere on the browser, choose ‘Add to Zoho Notebook‘.
Snap images of the whole pages
- Open the Zoho Notebook in any of your browser.
- Right click anywhere on your web browser, select ‘Snap Page to Zoho Notebook‘.
- The whole page will be snapped as long as the end image size is less than 9MB, otherwise, you’ll got this error message.
Snap a region of images to Zoho Notebook
- Open Zoho Notebook in any of your web browser.
- Right click anywhere on your web browser, select ‘Snap Page to Zoho Notebook‘
- 1 transparent square box will appear (the image beside) which can be re-sized or moved . To start snapping, move this transparent box to any image you want to snap, and double click.
- 1 windows popped out asking the name of what this image will be saved. Click OK, and the image will be saved to Zoho Notebook.
Import Google Notebook to Zoho Notebook
To import data from Google Notebook to Zoho Notebook, follow these steps taken from the zoho blog.
- Install our new Zoho Notebook Plugin (the one I mentioned above) and restart your browser
- Login to Zoho and Google Notebook
- Go to this URL – chrome://zoho-notebook/content/g2z.html – and click on Start
Since it still in beta status, there are few bugs that might appear intermittently. This is what I discover..
- Importing failed intermittently. On my case, I tried 3 times before its finally working.
- When using Snap Region feature, the transparent square can only be resized vertically or horizontally. Again it happens intermittently.
Beside that, for better user experience and convenient, capturing text or images should be work without needing to open/close Zoho Notebook in any browser. The Firefox plugin alone should be enough to handle this.
Anyway, it looks like Google Notebook’s browser extension still working.
