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Zoho, the online office suite, has announced it will open its Zoho Notebook service to the general public later today. [Zoho Notebook][1], first announced at DEMO 07 back in January has been in a private beta trial phase for the last few months.
Zoho touts Notebook as a way for users to create, aggregate, and collaborate on content from other Zoho services as well as outside web content.
As you might expect Zoho notebook uses a notebook metaphor for its interface design, allowing top level "notebooks" to contain "pages," which can be anything from Zoho documents to embedded web videos. For a more in-depth look at the notebook see the new video from Zoho embedded after the jump.
The closest competitor for Zoho Notebook is undoubtedly Google Notebook, however, Zoho's features are considerably more impressive.
Whereas Google Notebook is essentially a scrapbook for interesting tidbits you find around the web, Zoho Notebook is much closer to a full-blown desktop snippet-keeper application.
As you can see in the video below, the application is laid out in a two-pane workspace. The left-hand side contains all the buttons for creating and modifying notebooks, pages, and elements. The content itself is in the right-hand pane.
Along the top of the workspace are tabs to switch between notebooks. A small toolbar at the bottom contains some simple drawing tools like text boxes, lines, shapes and comment bubbles for creating your own content from scratch.
Notebook also features browser plugins for Firefox and Internet Explorer which you can use to quickly cut and paste web content into a notebook.
Zoho Notebook is an impressive offering and now that it's out of the beta phase I expect a number of curious users may defect from Google. Either way, scrapbook and snippet lovers have yet another online tool at their disposal.
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[1]: http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/login.jsp "Google Notebook"
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