Google Notebook, the latest product in the Google labs has universal appeal.

This handy program allows you to organize your notes and clippings as you travel the web.

Instead of just bookmarking a site in your favourites and trying to remember why you liked it, with Google Notebook, you can highlight what you want and hit the “clip” button.

You can then organize your notes however you want and then search through your note text at any time.

You can even share your notes with others.

It’s a simple browser plugin that goes in your browser’s status bar at the bottom of the screen - so it’s not another tab at the top, taking up space. Versions are available for IE and Firefox. It took less than a minute to install on my system. It looks neat! Here’s how to access this tool:

http://www.google.com/notebook/