Google notes which we use at our company so employees can acess information over the internet would not be able to use the opera’s notes since that is indepentant to the users computer.

Remember it not totally fault of Opera, but they should do the strategic alliances.

As to synching, I really think people ought to look at OSynch - which seems to take care of the entire mobile Opera profile thing. Of course, it’d be nice if Opera integrated this, but it is available for use. Better yet, it can encompass the entire browser profile (like a Windows Roaming Profile) as opposed to just one very small part of it.

Opera Notes is somewhat useful, but I insist that it lacks the feature of sharing what you’ve found. Yes, it’s optional, but lacks it.

Anyways, it’s not problem of Opera, it’s Googlers lazyness.

If we want support, better flood the Google Groups boards.

I agree. I was just trying to shed *some* light on the similarities, but yes, they are different and are for different requirements. For me, the responsiveness of having it built into the browser is a greater requirement than having them available online for me. But like I’ve said many times, I’d like to have that feature available in Opera Notes, just not at the cost of the tight integration.

I currently meet this (rare) requirement pretty easily by just emailing my notes file or the actual note.

If you want a note-taking product that is fast, lightweight, no-frills, well integrated, I’d recommend Opera “Notes”. If you want a web-app based (re: always available, but the overhead of a web app) note-taking product that you can use a presentation medium, then use the Google’s Notebook. Also, if your research and internet hunting is so fascinating that others might want to see it as well, I’d recommend google again.

You’re obviously baiting me by calling me a moron and attacking me personally when you haven’t yet said anything about the points I’ve made (except ones you’ve incorrectly read). If you feel the need to further point out my shortcomings, feel free to email me (usability at el73.net) and not waste everyone else’s time who have come here to read about Opera Notes and Google Noteboook.

Good day sir.

I may have the greatest note on the planet on my Opera at home, but that doesn’t do squat for me when I’m at work.

Nice job flame-bait. How about a little open mindedness? I was talking about Opera’s “Notes” I’m sorry I missed the capital there. I tried to refer to google’s offering as either “google’s notes” or “notebook”

Who am I driving away? I clearly stated that these are two products that approach the same problem in different ways. I was just illustrating that everyone calling D.G. a troll and saying he’s way off base was incorrect. Yes, they are different. But they are not apples and oranges.

I don’t believe it’s “about” sharing notes. I believe that is a feature… yes a useful one. But what it’s about is notetaking.

I do see the desire of that functionality- sharing research notes with your team and all that, but it’s still not an apples and oranges type comparison.

You have to give some credit to Opera in this regard. Again- I’m not an expert on google notebook, so the following is said with a grain of salt, but:
my requirements for notes are fast, easy ways to get get relevant pieces of information (to serve as my reminder) and a link back to where I got it. It has to be fast, and easy to do. And it doesn’t have to be pretty. It’s going to be formatted pretty when I get it where it needs to be (a blog post, word processor, or just deleted when I get the info I need)

I don’t see google notes as meeting that requirement. First, I don’t care in any regard that I can share with others… here, I’ll share a note with you right now… ready? 229531. That’s it. That’s a note in my note panel. What do you care? It means a good deal to me though. I will say that I would like to be able to have one management point for notes. I guess. I really have work research and home research. They rarely overlap, so this isn’t a big issue to me, but a nice to have.

What google notebook does have is an interface that is patched on. I admire that they made it as easy as right clicking, but there seems to be too much overhead in creating and managing/retrieving these notes to actually help in focusing on research gathering.

And why do I want to put images in them? I have many other choices for word processing, blogging, sharing, etc. For me, the research gathering process is an intermediate step. I don’t care that my text doesn’t have images embedded in it. it’s all going to go into my blog post anyway… why worry about that stuff twice?

and in conclusion- I’ve had this post in my notes panel and added to it through most of the day.

I guess I’ve beaten this to death though…wow.

Fair enough Opera users only make up a tiny minority but doesn’t that tiny minority still represent something like 10-15 million (?) people..a fair amount of people to risk generating bad blood with.

From my point of view, it appear like comparing Opera’s bookmarks to delicious. They are different animals, but nobody has given up there own bookmarks in favor of on online solution entirely? and I stand by my earlier link I posted that the only reason those are successful is because they provide first a value to the individual user before the “network” So they are different but both are still bookmark tools right?

Is that your point with notes?