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[Google Notebook][1] is no longer a [Google Labs][2] project. Notebook, Google's scrapbook and note-taking service, has [officially come out of beta][3] and gained a sleek new interface in the process. Other changes include support for Notebook in seventeen languages with more reportedly on the way.
The old look of Google Notebook has been replaced by an Ajax interface that borrows heavily from GMail and looks more or less like what we've come to expect from Google services (screenshots after the jump).
The left column navigation has been rearranged and a rich text toolbar was added to the main Notebook pane.
International users will welcome the additional language support, and while the functionality of Google Notebook remains largely unchanged, the new interface makes it feel like more of a finished project.
That said, Notebook still lacks some key features, most notably a good organizational scheme -- support for tags would be nice.
I'll confess that, while I've flirted with Google Notebook in the past, I've never really found much use for it. Still, if you're the sort of person that loves to save random scraps of data, the new interface should make it easier to do so and Google notebook definitely beats the pants off cutting and pasting into Notepad.
Also be sure to check out the Firefox extension which puts all the functionality of Notebook in the browser so you can take notes on a page without leaving it behind.
The new Google Notebook interface (here's a [screenshot of the old look][4] for comparison)
[1]: http://www.google.com/notebook "Google Notebook"
[2]: http://labs.google.com/ "Google Labs"
[3]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-notebook-goes-multi-lingual.html "Google Notebook goes multi-lingual"
[4]: http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/RgtqEWQ_B_I/AAAAAAAABPo/JfBh5lTfOrA/s1600-h/google-notebook-initial-ui.jpg "Old Notebook Interface"
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