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starkos.industriousone.com/gettings-things-done-go... Gettings Things Done with Google
Thu, 02/08/2007 - 03:21 — starkos
Update: I have updated the article in response to the (excellent) comments. In particular, I have added several screenshots and more information on how I get information into Google Notebook. I’ve been using David Allen’s Getting Things Done for a few years now and I can’t recommend it highly enough. I get more done in less time. I spend much less time and energy figuring out what I need to do next. It has freed up mental cycles and allowed me to start focusing on bigger goals. And it makes me look good at work, where I have sailed through major crunches without breaking a sweat on more than one occasion. If you haven’t read the book this article might not make much sense. You really ought to go get the book — it is inexpensive and will pay for itself in no time at all! I’ve tried several different methods and applications for managing my action lists and projects, with various degrees of success. I spent the last year using paper (the Hipster PDA) for my action lists, with project information stored on the computer. Now I am entirely online — on Google to be specific — and I only carry paper for capturing new items. For starters, I forward all of my email accounts to Gmail. Under Gmail’s "Settings > Accounts" I created a new account for each forwarded email address, and selected the option to "reply from the same address the message was sent to". People can email me at any address, and they get a response back from the same address. Very transparent. All of my email is now in one place and I can take advantage of the great search and spam features of Gmail.
I clear my Gmail inbox out a couple of times a day. I use a "Later" label for things I want to check out later (like if someone sends me a YouTube link while I’m at work). If there is information I need to keep, I either send it to my inbox (in Google Notebook, keep reading) or directly to the appropriate project document (more on that in a second). Otherwise I just archive it and rely on the search features to get it back when I need it. I also use Gmail to store all of my contact information. This is not as easy as it could be (why can’t I click on a person’s name in the From: field to pop up their contact information?) but it does keep everything in one place. Hopefully this part will improve in the future. CalendarI have no complaints with Google Calendar. I have a couple of different calendars, including a family calendar that I share with my wife. It has all of the reminder features I need. The integration with Gmail is nice: if an email contains a date and time, Gmail will offer to create an event on my calendar. When meeting requests arrive (forwarded from my Exchange address at work) I add them to my personal calendar, and then accept the invite so that it appears on the Outlook calendar as well. In addition to tracking time-critical tasks, I also use Google Calendar to plan out my work day. I assign blocks to my tasks (30 minutes to process email, 60 minutes to finish feature X, and so on) and then drag them around to fit my day. If something doesn’t get done, I can drag it to the next day.
Action ListsGoogle Notebook is my solution for action lists. I keep one notebook for each context (@Home, @Work, etc.), one for "Waiting For" items, and one as an inbox for anything that pops up while I’m at the computer (which is most of the time). After using paper for so long, the drag-and-drop features of Notebook are hugely satisfying. I can quickly reprioritize a list when plans change, and even move tasks between contexts with a quick drag and drop. When a task is complete I simply delete it. Deleted tasks can be retrieved from the trash if needed, but this isn’t a feature I use very often.
I tried to use Notebook to also manage my projects, but without the ability to tag notebooks it isn’t practical. I usually have between 20-30 active projects at any time, and more than twice as many inactive and someday projects. You really need to have tags to filter that down to a smaller working set. More Google Notebook TricksIf you use Firefox, install the Google Notebook extension (and then wonder how you ever lived without it). This little extension sits down in your status bar and provides a quick popup view of your notebooks. You can then drag and drop text, links, or images into the current notebook.
When you come across some information that you need to act on, just drag it into your Inbox or use the handy context menu option. Then deal with it as you would any other action item the next time you clear your inboxes. I use this feature so often that is has become second nature — so much so that I actually forgot to include it in the first iteration of this article! ProjectsI use Google Docs & Spreadsheets to track all of my projects, one document per project. Unlike Notebook, you can tag documents; I use "active", "inactive", and "someday", as well as some more general topics such as "house" for everything related to…well, the house. I put my list of next steps at the top of each document, followed by any related notes or references. Moving an item to an action list is as simple as selecting it and creating a new note in my Notebook, either by using the Notebook extension or a quick cut-and-paste. I also add the name of the project to the task, like "Buy more paint (< house)". When I check an item off a list, I go back to that project and grab another task, a habit that helps speed up my weekly reviews. Weekly ReviewsSpeaking of weekly reviews…I load up Google Notebook in one window (not a tab) and Google Docs in another window, and then Alt+Tab between them (I could open both in separate tabs, but I prefer to use separate windows for this). I can see just my active projects by selecting the "active" tag. There isn’t much to talk about here; I am able to bounce around between documents and contexts and complete my reviews quickly. Much easier, in my opinion, then my old paper version. Offline CaptureI am within easy reach of a computer for most of the day. But for those times when I’m out and about, I keep a half-dozen index cards (leftovers from my Hipster days), cut in half and stuck into my wallet. These are great for capturing notes, and also for giving someone a phone number. And I’m glad to no longer have to carry the Hipster around with me everywhere. That’s It!That’s my system…It still has a few rough edges, but overall the Google Solution works well for me. I’m spending less time on managing my tasks than with any other approach I’ve tried. All of my information is available anywhere I can get online, and backed by Google (which, despite the recent Gmail outage, has been extremely reliable). I’d love to hear about any other Google tweaks that I might not have heard about! Tools for the TEKS: Integrating Technology in the Classroom
www.wtvi.com/teks/06_07_articles/google-notebook.h... Online Research with Google NotebookAn Article for The TechEdge: The Journal of the Texas Computer Education Association (Updated 22 February 2007) Despite the proliferation of web 2.0 technologies and more tools for interactive, desktop videoconferencing than you can shake a mouse at, Internet research remains one of the most common uses for computer technologies in U.S. schools today. The process of copying and pasting information, source URLs, and photographs for a report or multimedia presentation is often a laborious process. Multi-tasking between a web browser and a word processor when conducting online research requires a large number of mouse clicks for each piece of information to be saved appropriately. Thankfully, the availability of the free, web-based Google Notebook program (www.google.com/notebook) can dramatically streamline the research process. Instead of multi-tasking, users can conduct all their research from the comfort of their web browser! In this article, we’ll explore ten reasons for using Google Notebook for online research as well as some tips and tricks. GETTING STARTED To use Google Notebook, visit the Google website and register for a free account if you do not have one already. After logging in successfully, visit the Google Notebook homepage (www.google.com/notebook) and click to install the free browser extension. This is available for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 for Windows-based computers, and the FireFox web browser (www.mozilla.com) for Windows and Macintosh-based computers. (Macintosh Safari users can view and create notebooks, but not highlight and right-click/control-click selected text and images to add them to notebooks.) The Google Notebook browser extension adds NOTE THIS (GOOGLE NOTEBOOK) as a contextual menu item when users right-click or control-click something in their browser. Users can create as many Google notebooks as desired, and either keep them private, share them with specific people (inviting them to collaborate using their email address) or sharing a read-only version with the world on a public webpage. After creating a new Google notebook or selecting a desired notebook to be “active,” users can highlight text and images they want to save and either right-cick (on Windows) or control-click (on Macintosh) to save the highlighted material into the active Google notebook. This is the process of NOTING THIS in Google Notebook. Saved items in the notebook can be reordered, and additional text can be inserted as notes. Subtitles and dividers can be inserted as well. Think of Google notebook as the 21st century notecard stack for research projects. REASONS TO USE GOOGLE NOTEBOOK 1. Accessibility: Since Google notebook pages are saved on the public Internet, learners can access them from Internet connected computers both at school and at home. No need to worry about emailing documents back and forth or bringing a USB flash-drive from home to school (which could potentially carry viruses.) Web-based resources like Google notebooks are accessible everywhere the Internet is available and the Google notebook site is not blocked by a content filter. 2. Citation Aid: The source URL (website) of the saved text or image is automatically cited and saved to Google Notebook for later use in a bibliography or works cited page of the report. At the end of a research project, students using Google Notebook won’t say “I forgot to save the website address where I found that” because the source will already by saved, along with the date it was added to the digital notebook. 3. A Researcher's Dream: Google Notebook can be used for many different purposes, and is especially well-suited for collaborative research, but it is ideal for harvesting images and collecting research project sources / quotations. No more multi-tasking between a word processor and web browser and worrying about where a file is saved on the local computer or school network. 4. Formatting Options: Text saved into a Google notebook can include rich text formatting and hyperlinking. 21st century research projects should be created with 21st century web-based tools, and Google notebook certainly fits that bill to a T. 5. Flexible Organization: Learners can add section titles to separate different parts of a notebook, and also create multiple notebooks for different projects or topics. Google notebooks are free to create and use, so it is up to the researcher to determine what organizational framework makes the most sense and will best accomplish the instructional goals of the assignment. 6. Drag and Drop: Google Notebook users can move notes and section titles by dragging and dropping them in their browser. Highlighted notes and images are added to the active Google notebook sequentially, but after they are included they can easily be reordered as desired. 7. Collaborative: Google Notebook offers collaborative options for learners: Let others privately view or jointly author a notebook. Invite them using their email address and the “SHARING OPTIONS” link in the upper right corner of every Google Notebook document. Unlike a wiki, however, Google Notebooks do NOT track a revision history and contributors to allow users to “flip back” to a previous version. 8. Publishable: Text and images included in a Google Notebook can be immediately posted to the web. Contents are also printable from any computer and user authorized to at least view the notebook. If this sharing option is selected, each Google Notebook will have two versions: the VIEW (read-only) version and the editable version for authorized authors. 9. Searchable: After saving text into a Google notebook, the author or others can use a search query to find instances of text in the document. This is a Google product, after all, so the availability of a search option shouldn’t be a surprise! 10. Free: Perhaps best of all, the amazing power of Google Notebook is free. There are not any hidden charges or “pro” options, all the features of Google Notebook are available to all users without cost. TIPS AND TRICKS If you have installed the optional browser-extension for Google Notebook, a “mini-notebook” will be available when a user double click’s the icon in the lower right corner of any browser window. (The text button reads: OPEN NOTEBOOK.) Text can be edited within the mini-notebook, and saved text can be expanded or collapsed within different sub-sections, making it easier to quickly move through saved clippings. Section titles always are added at the bottom of a Google Notebook, so researchers might consider adding section names first before starting research. Than as text and images are saved, each one can be moved into the appropriate category or topic using either the mini-notebook window or a larger (standard) Google Notebook webpage view. Make sure to select the desired notebook FIRST before saving text or images as clippings. Selected content is always saved to the ACTIVE Google Notebook, and only one notebook can be active at a time. Add additional notes and hyperlinks as appropriate to a Google Notebook. To edit an existing entry in a notebook, simply double click it to enter the editing mode. Just as users should in word processing documents or multimedia presentations, Google Notebook authors and reseearchers should use text styles, colors, fonts, sizes and links to make text in saved “clips” communicate more effectively. Do not use style options if they detract from the message and purpose of the notebook. Consider using Google Notebook as the format for an assigned research paper’s bibliography or works-cited page. If you do, all referenced quotations and images will be easily linkable right from the Google Notebook page which is already online! (Those wanting to access the notebook will either have to be invited to view or collaborate on the document, or the entire notebook will have to be published publicly under SHARING OPTIONS.) By default, the web addresses for Google Notebooks are very long and difficult to copy down and retype. If someone wants to share the address of a Google Notebook, consider using the free service TinyURL (http://tinyurl.com) to create a shorter, shareable web address. Access the notes and links for this article as a Google Notebook by visiting http://tinyurl.com/2vz4zv. Refer to the official Google Notebook frequently-asked-questions site for more tips! (www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html) -- Wesley Fryer is an advocate for engaged digital learning, differentiated instruction, and inspired school leadership. He blogs regularly at www.speedofcreativity.org and periodically on www.infinitethinking.org and www.techlearning.com/blog.
Note Taking Application Faceoff at The Apple Blog
theappleblog.com/2007/01/22/note-taking-applicatio... Note Taking Application FaceoffWhether you’re writing a simple article for a blog, piecing together the next blockbuster hit, or penning a 500 page romance novel, there are quite a few options for helping you get all of that information organized and drafted. There really are enough to chose from with a wide enough range of options that you’re sure to find something to fit your needs. Journler Journler is one of the more full-featured applications in it’s genre. It’s got everything from iWeb integration to video/audio note recording. The aspect it takes on note taking/writing is in the form of a journal (hence the name). So while its main function certainly is geared more towards daily input, it still works very well for information gathering and jotting notes. My only beef with Journler is that it’s current version feels like there are some loose ends that just aren’t tied up. There is a fairly major update coming soon that could fix these issues. Journler is free for non-commercial use and $24.95 for commercial use. Scrivener Scrivener from Literature and Latte is a solid app that really is perfect for writing books, manuals, a thesis, or anything that has many parts to it. One of it’s major features is called Corkboard. The Corkboard view lets you arrange notes (like index cards) to create a quick outline of parts/chapters to whatever it is you’re writing. This feature really helps with organization. Scrivener will cost you $34.99. Writeroom Writeroom, which we’ve previous covered, is the minimalist cousin to all of these applications. It’s the modern day equivelent of an old-school typewriter. It provides distraction-free writing by blacking out the entire screen and giving you a blank “canvas” to just start typing. Ultimately it’s TextEdit with flair. Writeroom is free to download and $24.95 if you feel inclined to support them. Mori Mori is probably the closest thing to an actual notebook in terms of interface and organization. It’s a no-frills way to organize thoughts, lists, photos, and any other basic information or media. Mori uses Apple’s CoreData technology which gives it the capability to hold literally 10’s of thousands of notes and still stay blazing fast. Mori is $39.95 for a full license. xPad xPad is a light notepad application. If Mori is a full, 8.5×11 notebook, then xPad is it’s 6×9 little brother. It’s perfect for quick jots during a class or office meetings. Its feature list is short, but that’s one of its strong points. The only real unique features it has are simple text highlighting and strikethrough, which are perfect for note jotting. xPad is freeware, so you have no excuse for not giving it a whirl. NoteBook Circus Ponies’ NoteBook is the mother of all note repositories. Your entire experience is started by telling NoteBook what project you’re working on. Whether it’s project management, research papers, or script writing, it has a template to help you on your way to organization paradise. NoteBook has a fairly active community of people and has some great features like system-wide contextual menus and paper-like tabs. NoteBook is $49.95 for a standard license and $29.95 for an academic license. Yojimbo Bare Bones (makers of such popular apps as BBEdit, Mailsmith, and TextWrangler) bring you Yojimbo. Yojimbo is one of those apps that you just wonder how you lived without. It ties itself in to many area of the OS and with it’s spotlight-esque information capturing area, it gives you no excuse not to store all your random tidbits of info and notes. It’s Notes feature is great for writing articles (I’m writing this article in it) and provides other great features like encrypted storage, tagging, and bookmarking. Yojimbo will run you $39 and is a must-have.
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» Google Notebook - the good, the bad, and the ugly | Office Evolution | ZDNet.com
blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/index.php?p=103 Google Notebook - the good, the bad, and the uglyPosted by Marc Orchant @ 5:30 am Categories: Productivity, Mobility, Software, Web Apps
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So Google Notebook has launched. In a previous post, I wondered who needed to worry about this new foray into organizing the world’s information. Based on a first test, probably no one. Why? Because there’s nothing particularly great about this tool, at least in its initial form. It’s not terrible although I can’t connect to my Notebook at the moment - probably because everyone on the East Coast is banging on Google’s door trying to get a Notebook set up right now. It’s just not great. It is functional and will probably end up being mildly useful but I see nothing to suggest I will focus my information gathering on this tool rather than OneNote or EverNote. Mike Arrington won’t be switching form del.icio.us anytime soon. Steve Rubel wants better integration with other Google services and hates the fact that Google Notebook requires a plug-in. A few readers and bloggers have pointed out that ClipMarks does everything Google Notebook does and a lot more. Arrington closes with this thought which I can’t argue with one bit:
Yup… this is another nice try that falls short. No Gmail "wow" factor here. Move along now. Google Notebook First Look
Google Notebook is starting to go live as of this writing. Thanks to ZDNet for the link to the login page. Here's an initial look. The overview page can be found here. Google Notebook, the web copy says, makes it easy to collect web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car. You simply clip and gather information even while you're browsing the web. All your notes belong to Google. To clip information you need to use the mini Google Notebook. This unfortunately requires a browser extension. Hmm, why not integrate this into the Google Toolbar? Once your notes are in Google Notebook you can make them publicly available. Then all of these public notes can be searched from this search page. According to the FAQ it takes two days for your notebooks to get indexed. The Google Notebook interface itself is very straightforward. You create a notebook. Then each notebook can feature rich text notes. You then have the option to print or share notebooks. All of your notebooks are naturally searchable. Google Notebook is straightforward and easy to use but I am disappointed in it. I don't like that the mini Google Notebook requires a browser plug-in. I don't see why it can't work the same way Google Talk works inside Gmail. This makes Google Notebook virtually useless when I am using someone else's computer. As Google grows I have been noticing that they are producing less winners. Google Trends, for example, is a great tool. But others like this one and Google Co-op are duds from the get-go. Here are some screens I took of Google Notebook ...   Technorati Tags: Google+Notebook, Google 
Watch the demo on the right to see how it works, or keep reading to learn more... Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
 EverNote will probably feel the most natural to most users. It is the one I recommend as a starting point for people first trying this kind of program.James Fallows, The Atlantic Online
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www.digitalramble.com/2006/05/17/7/ Review: Google Notebook and Clipmark
By Cindy (
May 17, 2006 at 5:29 pm)
· Filed under extension Lifehacker put out a note about one of Google’s latest, Notebook, and one of the comments pointed out that Clipmark already offered the same functionality. I thought I’d take a look at both of them. I love Google’s stuff by and large, but there are some alternatives I prefer, plus it seems prudent not to centralize all one’s online information. So I think Bloglines is easier to work with and sort through rss subscriptions than Google Reader. I think del.icio.us blows Google Bookmarks out of the water. So when I hear about a couple of alternatives to a Google tool, I usually check them out. Starting with Google Notebook, I installed the Firefox plugins with no trouble. After I did so, I had a small Notebook icon in the lower right Firefox frame that allowed me to open or close the notebook; when it’s opened it’s in a small summary view which can either close (back down to the icon), minimize (to a small hovering line on the body of Firefox, or open to a new/full window with all the details. It’s extremely easy to add clippings by highlighting the desired text and right clicking to choose “Note this.” I can create multiple notebooks and switch which one I’m adding to (or create new ones on the fly) through the Actions option on the summary view. I like the interface — I right click extensively for “additional” options anyway, so putting the “Note this” in the right click menu works perfectly for me. So to clip something, it’s just like copying: I highlight the desired text, right click, and choose the new “Note this.” The three “levels” available are a little confusing at first, but I quickly sorted out how each was useful. Clipping is possible in any of these modes. It’s intuitively and quickly usable, which I appreciate. I would like some modifications, though (of course!). I’d like to be able to copy and paste out of the full Notebook view into my articles, preserving the links and such. As it is, I have to use the Firefox’s Edit/Copy after highlighting in the full view, no right click copy is given here. And when I do Firefox’s Edit/Paste, it carries over only the text of the link and not the link as well. I’d also like to be able to right click on the links shown in the summary/full views of the notebook and be able to copy link location like I can normally in Firefox. As it is, at present right clicking on links in the summary and full views causes the link to come up (and in the same page, not a new window or tag), which I find confusing and clumsy. Particularly since opening up the full view does cause a new window/tab to open (my tabs are set to capture new windows into tabs; your mileage may vary). As you can imagine, there have already been a number of reviews of Google Notebook published: here, here, and here . But I think some of these folks are missing the point. I would never consider this a substitute for del.icio.us. That seems like an odd equation to me. del.icio.us is about organizing links, Google Notebook is about saving and referencing snippets out of assorted web pages. In particular, I’ve been using this to save up collections of links and comments for articles that I write, including this one! Afterwards, I discard those notebooks now that I’m done with them. It’s a great way for organizing the bits of info I come across when researching something. That said, I do agree that this makes Google Bookmark look like even more of an orphan. That tool needs to be overhauled or quietly dropped. I went on to check out Clipmarks, and I want to like it. It’s also a plugin and you have to sign up for a free account (the Google Notebook also requires a google account, which anyone with a gmail account (for example) already has). This utility has been around a while longer. I googled up reviews here, here, and here. Once you install the extension you have to remember to customize your toolbar in Firefox, and drag the Clipmark icon to one of your toolbars. Their simple “setup” view on their webpage does not mention this last part, so that could be a little tricky for folks without the investigative chops to figure it out. Once it was properly installed, I had four new icons (I rearranged things to keep my real estate at the top minimal). To clip something, I clicked on the green clip button, hovered over the text/pictures I wanted until an orange outline appeared, clicked again inside the orange outline of what I wanted. I had some trouble with this — the orange outline does not always show up, and when it did, sometimes I clicked on the inside of it with no result, and so forth. Perhaps it was just net latency time — now that I think on it, it may be reading in the entire web page in order to find the html/css blocks contained in it. If I was patient and waited until my hovering created an orange outline around texts and blocks in the web page, then I was able to click inside the orange outlines I wanted to clip. At this point the chosen block and the save and print icons turn orange. The save dialogue box then let me tag, title, and categorize the clipping. It seemed to need me to log back into Clipmarks frequently, I’m not sure why or what was going on; I had another window logged into Clipmarks open at the time. My clippings defaulted to public until I changed it (the save clippings dialogue box contains a link to change the default, which is a nice touch). To review the Clipmarks snippets, I had to go back to my logged in Clipmarks window and go through the “mine” button (since I made all my clippings private). So it’s more cumbersome to retrieve the saved clippings than in Notebook, but since it’s on a proper web page, I’m able to copy text and links as I’d like. I also poked around the public clippings. If I want, I can flesh out my login with a profile and list my blogs, pictures, IM handles, emails, use an avatar or photo, list a little about myself and so on. There’s a tag cloud available of public clippings in order to choose different sets of clippings to look at. I do like the overall look and feel of the Clipmarks site. The orange highlighting does need to speed up because its unresponsiveness is confusing: I started clicking all over to try to get something to happen, and wasn’t sure what was going on for a while. That issue about repeatedly signing in needs resolving as well. I’d also like some way of conveniently looking at thumbnails or summaries of my clippings without necessarily going back to the Clipmarks site. I think there’s pros and cons to each. I like the general design and scope of Clipmarks and if I were more oriented to the social aspects of sharing clippings, I’d go that way. As it is, I’m a private misanthrope and I like the intuitive copy/paste interface of Google’s, so I’m going to go with that. I’d encourage you to look them both over and see what you like. If you object to plugins (as one reviewer did), you’re sort of out of luck… Online organisation software: Zoho Planner vs. Google Notebook « Ioannus de Verani
ioannusdeverani.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/online-or... Online organisation software: Zoho Planner vs. Google Notebook August 28, 2006Posted by ioannusdeverani in Zoho, AJAX, Google. trackbackProbably some of my readers are getting tired of my Zoho vs. Google reviews, but I think that they are good, if someone is looking for unbiased advice in online solutions. So, like I always do, I will start with an overview of the point of these programs, then move on to a comparison in aesthetics, and finally a comparison in functionality. Zoho Planner and Google Notebook do basically the same thing, that being, organise bits of information. BTW: Wordpress has crapped up my lists and layout, so it does’t look right, but it should still have the info. Hopefully you can see the screenshots. If not, just click the links. Aesthetics:
If you look at the pictures, you should automatically see the easy win that Zoho has in comparison with Google, in aesthetics. This situation is rather on its back, because usually Google is known for its unbeatable simple design. If looked at alone, Google Notebook might seem simple and uncluttered, but when compared to Zoho’s alternative, it looks like trash. Zoho Planner’s appearence is appealing, attractive, cool, and a ton of other synonyms to the same effect. Notable are the round edges that have become standard with Zoho (except for Zoho Sheet….. :-[ ). The soft bluish background is very nice also.
WINNER: Zoho Planner Functionality:Features present in Zoho Planner:
Features present in Google Notebook:
Winner in Numbers: Zoho Planner The reason I differentiated in the two winners is that Zoho Planner appears to have more features (it does), but out of the ones that I actually use, Google wins. Don’t get me wrong, I love both, and I am trying not to be biased, but Google has some features which are essential (e.g. rich text editing, easy dragging….) that Zoho lacks. Zoho has some unessential features that Google lacks, but aside from being nice, they are not all that useful. If in the future, Zoho adds a Rich Text Editor like their Zoho Writer, and changes their dragging system, I will be inclined to have Zoho win the whole way. Comments»
 
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