Google Notebook Script Extension
February 10, 2008
Update: I have finally fixed the script, which was broken due to Camino’s modified AppleScript support. I apologize for the wait, and from now on you can contact me with problems at the email below. Please see this post about the new suite of free Camino and Safari sidebar scripts I have made.
With its new support for AppleScripts in the toolbar, Mozilla’s Camino browser for Mac opens up a whole new world for extensions on the Cocoa platform. One of my favorite Firefox extensions is Google Notebook (no longer accepting new users, but still nice to use), which still isn’t available for Camino. So here is a script extension for Camino that provides a workaround: it opens any webpage in a new tab with Google Notebook in the sidebar for taking notes.
Camino Instructions:
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1.Drag script to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Camino/, or make the directory if you don’t already have it.
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2.Customize the Camino Toolbar by right-clicking on it (make sure you have Camino 1.6 or higher), and drag the item labeled “Script: Google Notebook Camino” into it.
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3.Click the Notebook on any page to open it in a new tab with Google Notebook in the sidebar. To view a list of all your notebooks and create new ones, click on the arrow-bar on the left.
Troubleshooting:
Google Notebook keeps asking me to log in!
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•Go to your browser preferences (Camino > Preferences..., Privacy) and choose “Accept cookies from any site”
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•To temporarily resolve this problem, you can also open a new tab and visit http://www.google.com/notebook/ig
The script fails halfway through and doesn’t load the sidebar!
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•Some pages (some wikis, for example) don’t work with this script because they break frames when placed into them. If you’ve ever noticed that some Google Image results refuse to have a header bar on top, this is a similar effect.
Safari Instructions:
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1.Drag script to ~/Library/Scripts/, or make the directory if you don’t already have it.
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2.Open the application AppleScript Utility from Applications/AppleScript/ and check “Show script menu in Menu Bar.” A scroll will appear at the top of the screen.
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3.Click the scroll when you’re in Safari and, in the drop-down menu, click on the Google Notebook Safari script to run it.
