Welcome You Fine Google Notebook Users

January 22nd, 2009

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Recently, Google announced that they were stopping development on Google Notebook. We’re big fans of Google Notebook, in fact many of used it before Evernote came along. When we heard the news, we immediately began work on a Google Notebook import tool. Today, it’s ready. So, all of you Google Notebook users can now easily bring your notes, labels, and sections right into Evernote.

Let’s get started

Exporting out of Google Notebook

  1. Sign into Google Notebook
  2. Click on a notebook that you want to export
  3. Click the Export link at the bottom of the page
  4. Choose ‘Atom’ from the export options.
  5. Save the Google Atom Notebook file to your desktop

If you have multiple notebooks that you want to export, simply repeat this process for each.

Importing into Evernote

First, sign into Evernote. Next, go to our Google Notebook import page, which is also accessible from the Setting page on Evernote Web, and import each notebook that you exported. It may take a few minutes depending on the size of the notebook. Finally, if you use a desktop version of Evernote, hit Sync to download those imported notes.

That’s it. Easy, no? We even maintain the creation date, source URLs, images, and everything else. One thing to keep in mind, Evernote does not have the concept of labels and sections, instead we use tags. So, imported labels and sections will become tags.

Now that you’re an Evernote user…

Conceptually, there are a lot of similarities between Evernote and Google Notebook. Both are great for capturing notes and ideas, both have bookmarklets that make it easy to grab web content (get ours here), and both give you lots of ways to organize and find the things you saved. What makes Evernote different and more powerful, is that it goes beyond the web. There are versions of Evernote for Windows, Mac, iPhone, Windows Mobile, and other devices. Anything you put into Evernote automatically syncs and becomes available from any other platform. Plus, we have some pretty cool image recognition, which makes text within images searchable. We recommend reading through our blog for lots of other great Evernote features and uses.

Don’t forget about Delicious

We also have a great Delicious bookmark import tool. If you haven’t tried it, we recommend that you do.

We’ll be adding more import options in the future, so stay tuned.