Online Notebook
November 24, 2004 7:45 AM   Subscribe

Online Notebook This nifty web tool lets me store my brain online in an organized way. (I've seen a few other attempts at such web apps, but this is the first particularly good one I've found.)
posted by oissubke (35 comments total)

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Can I see any of it without registering?
posted by Armitage Shanks at 7:50 AM on November 24, 2004


Yeah, know of any screenshots? Is it just a wiki, or what?
posted by mathowie at 8:00 AM on November 24, 2004


Check the Manual link.

All I see is ability of note hierarchy. What about cross-referencing and indexing.
posted by Gyan at 8:01 AM on November 24, 2004


oissubke, your profile says you're in mesa, az, and the domain is owned by someone in mesa, az. You wouldn't happen to be posting this ho-hum link for a friend, would ya?
posted by mathowie at 8:05 AM on November 24, 2004


For shame, Oissubke... For shame.
posted by TwelveTwo at 8:14 AM on November 24, 2004


It was built by a local firm, but I don't have any direct connection. Just heard about it by word of mouth. (Or word of e-mail, actually.)
posted by oissubke at 8:14 AM on November 24, 2004


Why store my brain online when there's a mayonnaise jar in my fridge just waiting for it!

Har har.

But yes, screenshots...or some other non-login information would be helpful.
posted by tpl1212 at 8:15 AM on November 24, 2004


Username/password metafilter/metafilter.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 8:19 AM on November 24, 2004


Thanks AmShanks for the entry. I was curious and would have set up my own account, but thanks to your help, I now know that it's not worth the effort. I don't really see anything special about this, and I'm an avid note taker and storer of information but useful and trivial.
posted by HifiToaster at 8:35 AM on November 24, 2004


If you could cross reference notes and if you could sync to a pda this would be pretty cool.
posted by soplerfo at 8:43 AM on November 24, 2004


It's just a wiki. Why trust someone else's server when you can install something like UseMod (or any other wiki, please substitute your wiki-of-choice rather than starting a "Hey, ThisWiki is so much better" tangent) in a couple of minutes?
posted by scruss at 8:53 AM on November 24, 2004


Newbie alert: what's a wiki?
posted by jbielby at 8:59 AM on November 24, 2004


It's a word you type into Google.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 9:01 AM on November 24, 2004


Since I don't have a PDA, or a purse to carry around my address/phone books and TO DO lists, or my own web site, I found this quite useful as a way to access information from work, home, or anywhere I have internet access. The novelty may wear off after a while, but for now...I like it.
Thanks for the link, oissubke.
posted by rocket88 at 9:06 AM on November 24, 2004


It's a word you type into Google.

I am sorry, but that was really rude and uncalled for.
posted by Quartermass at 9:07 AM on November 24, 2004


Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
posted by Quartermass at 9:09 AM on November 24, 2004


It'd be one thing if I could use it on my own site, but as-is, why bother?

(On preview)
Since I don't have a PDA, or a purse to carry around my address/phone books and TO DO lists, or my own web site,

Ah, that's why.
posted by me3dia at 9:10 AM on November 24, 2004


Wow. So the prohibition against self-linking now extends to not linking to friends' sites?

Are we only allowed to link to sites if we don't know anyone involved with them?

Too bad. Many of the most interesting things I see on the web are posted by people I know.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 9:24 AM on November 24, 2004


Mathowie, I don't know why you're so suspicious about it. On Forty's page explaining how to "market virally" you're called out as a "highly influential blogger." That makes you complicit, in my book, but my book is fiction.

Seriously? A firm that offers viral-marketing services to clients, and "notebook" services to people, might be missing the point, not making one.
posted by cloudscratcher at 9:27 AM on November 24, 2004


I am sorry, but that was really rude and uncalled for.

No, it wasn't.
posted by jpoulos at 9:29 AM on November 24, 2004


give a man a fish, feed him once, teach a man to fish.... dont get fooled again
posted by GleepGlop at 9:35 AM on November 24, 2004


I love the name GleepGlop and I love Mr. Show.

(David Cross is a funny, funny man.)

vision quest, ay, try a sweat lodge, i hear they evoke transcendental states of consciousness.
posted by mic stand at 9:52 AM on November 24, 2004


I've been using drafts in my gmail inbasket to do this sort of thing. Perhaps there are other better options out there (linky, linky?), but even as is, it's pretty useful to me.
posted by jacquilynne at 10:00 AM on November 24, 2004


I think this is a good idea and maybe even a nice start, but could use a little OWL, RDF, prolog, and fancy-schmancy XSLT to really get things smoking. Been mulling over such a system myself for about a year now but haven't had the block of free time to really dig into it yet.
posted by Fezboy! at 10:12 AM on November 24, 2004


The problem with these remote databases is.. well, your brain lasts only as long as the company is in business. Then you die. Same problem with bookmark services and others. I just keep all my notes in plain ascii text files on a local server and use grep to find things, this method has last over 10 years very well. Some things are best kept simple.
posted by stbalbach at 10:14 AM on November 24, 2004


Wow. So the prohibition against self-linking now extends to not linking to friends' sites?

If someone says a new tool is amazing and it's just sort of so-so and a subset of what you can get out of dozens of other free wikis, I wonder why it was posted, hence my question. I have friends goading me into posting links to their stuff all the time, but if it's not good enough to live up to the hype, I pass. My friends understand, because I'm doing them a favor. If the link sucked, they'll get a crapload of negative feedback here on metafilter. Not exactly a good way to promote your site/service.
posted by mathowie at 10:20 AM on November 24, 2004


The ability to post arbitrary data trees is useful, but trivial; a site like this can be knocked out in PHP/MySQL in any spare afternoon. That there's no "download" link indicates it's not shareware and you have to trust the (nameless) provider.

This scrap of functionality would be a handy plugin for MT or Plone or any of a dozen shareware CMS systems, assuming they don't have it already.
posted by George_Spiggott at 10:40 AM on November 24, 2004


well, I am glad it got posted because I find it useful for ME. If it disappears, well, heck, no worse off than I was.


(but it ain't all that and a pancake either.)
posted by konolia at 10:48 AM on November 24, 2004


>>Too bad. Many of the most interesting things I see on the web are posted by people I know.

Null and void: the internets are humongous and infinite. Please resubmit a valid argument stating that out of billions of existing websites (and millions more appearing new each day) you cannot find a single link that is somehow unaffiliated with an acquaintance, Mr. Popularity.

>>Just heard about it by word of mouth. (Or word of e-mail, actually.)

oissubke, you are a spammer's wet dream.
posted by naxosaxur at 10:48 AM on November 24, 2004


It's a word you type into Google.

Thank you for making me laugh so hard that I got the hiccups. Hic.
posted by esperluette at 11:07 AM on November 24, 2004


This is much, much better, no registration, no spamtrap. And the code can be downloaded and installed on a private webserver if you like.
posted by dragstroke at 11:10 AM on November 24, 2004


Oissubke has a spotty history with viral marketing here on Mefi, which explains the heightened suspicion.
posted by PrinceValium at 11:30 AM on November 24, 2004


I see 'forty media' and start thinking of marketing, correlation of data, selling information to advertisers or using it in their own advertising etc (yes I read the privacy statement but still not convinced). My tin foil hat is trying to fend off the evil nasty attempts at breaking through my defenses. Thanks but no thanks.
posted by squeak at 11:31 AM on November 24, 2004


Good gravy. This link sucks and oissubke sucks. At least that millionforchrist scam guy only posted one unethical thread.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 11:38 AM on November 24, 2004


Interesting, the domain from ossibuke's old web bug post is the same owner as this one.

Game over, ossiubke.
posted by mathowie at 11:39 AM on November 24, 2004


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