Web Note
I’ve been looking around for information concerning blogging in education. One of the exciting things (and sometimes potentially distracting and time consuming) about searching the web is that you can run across the most interesting things. While surfing I found this tool called Web Note.
This is the exact page that I ran across. It’s called Will’s Notes and it looks like a mess when you first go to it. The page presumably contains notes by this person named Will on blogging. You can click on the notes, move them around and resize them, even change colors.
The main Web Note site does offer some hints on how to navigate and keep notes on one of these pages. Some that I thought were interesting: (1) You can embed links and images into notes. (2) You can save your page of notes. There is also a circular button at the top that will allow you to cycle through various saved versions. The page that you create cannot be password protected, so anyone can save and delete notes. (3) To navigate through a lot of notes, press ‘N’ to cycle to the next note and move it to the top. ‘P’ will cycle to the previous note and move it to the top.
You can create your own web note workspace and experiment with this pretty nifty tool.
So where did this come from? If you remove part of the address and go back to the main domain you learn that this was created by a software developer, on his own, who happens to work for Google. This is one of the neat things about the Internet - you never know quite what you will run across. And who knows where this will end up. According to his site, this has become a popular tool. And he thought he was just messing around....
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