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My favorite ToDo List site, Remember the Milk, now uses Google Gears for offline functionality. Slowly we are going to realize the importance of Google Gears in our internet connected world.

I have been checking our Zoho Notebook since its alpha days. As I have told in various forums, I am pretty impressed with it. Its UI is comparable to Microsoft’s One Note. After they moved to beta, I decided to start using it for my daily personal activities. Today, I completely lost a “book” on Zoho Notebook. I spent almost 2 hours getting ideas into that notebook. It is all gone now. I have sent a feedback to Zoho about it and asked them if it is possible to recover it from the backup (I was just editing a “book” I made few days back and it should be there in their backup). I will have to wait now to see if they can recover it. Anyhow, the moral of the story is that we should remember that it is still in beta and not put anything into it without a backup elsewhere. This post is not against Zoho Notebook (I love it) but this is a warning to others who might be keeping their data on it. Keep a backup elsewhere.

Update 1: Zoho guys were prompt in their response. They are going to implement auto-save and recycle bin pretty soon. This will ensure that such accidents doesn’t cause any harm. Thanks Arvind and Arun for prompt response on this issue.

Update 2: Zoho has added the auto-save feature into the notebook. Check out their post here.