Did you hear? Google has announced that they will not be spending any more time developing Google Notes. Google says that they will continue to support Google Notes but not improve upon it.Although I have used Google notes some, I have not been an avid user. I am teaching a Seminar in Writing Graduate Papers now at the University of Northern Iowa and I was going to introduce Google Notes next week. Now we will go with Zotero.
Zotero is an add-in for Firefox that helps you collect, manage and cite your research sources. The latest version is 1.0.9 but there is a beta 1.5 version. I don't know the differences, but here are some notes about it.
Here is a pretty good video overview of Zotero 1.5 from Zoteron on YouTube.
Zotero also has a series of screencasts about Version 1.09. They give you an overview, finding items, managing your library, and other features. They even show how to connect Zotero with MS Word, Google Tools, and Flock.
Do you use Zotero or Google Notebook or Zoho or ????
Where was this when I was getting my BA in the early 90's???? :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of Evernote. My favorite part is that Evernote parses photos and lets you search inside those photos. I use it to take pictures of the notes I've written on the whiteboard in my classroom and make them searchable later.
ReplyDeleteZotero sounds awesome for citations, though.