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Fifty Ways to Take Notes

Via Rebecca's Pocket, the Solution watch blog has posted Fifty Ways to Take Notes. Try some out the next time you're at a conference or meeting, or find a favorite to recommend to library patrons to save their research.

My favorite new find is ShortText: it's incredibly fast and easy, and requires no registration. You can set a password ("key") if you want to keep notes private.

The author also lists a few neat personal start pages - like Netvibes, PageFlakes, Protopage, Fold, and Google Personalized - where you can gather your daily info (like various RSS feeds & weather) and handy tools.

DwarfURL

Tana @ MPL brought my attention to DwarfURL, a tool with which you can shorten monster URLs to include in email addresses, etc. It works like TinyURL, except that it also lets you track how many times people click on the link you create. Nifty!