Google Notebook integrated into Google Office?

Something that surprised me when Google released Google Docs and Spreadsheets was that there was no Google Notebook contained in the package. One of the simplest functions of the Google Docs is to use it to create simple notes, shopping lists and other non-professional documents that serve as a virtual scratchpad.

Google Notebook is designed with these users in mind and so it would be logical to place the notebook into the web application. The interface of the Google Office itself somewhat resembles Google Notebook and so would probably not require too much work to integrate the two together.

I think that Google have a broad range of products at the moment and just need to be able to create those synergies that make a website a place to stay rather than a place to visit. Gmail is an excellent example of this in that I usually just keep Gmail open in my browser all the time. Also with the new Greasemonkey script that integrates Google Reader with Gmail, I no longer need to have Google Reader open as I can see from the small "Feed" node how many unread feeds there are.

In terms of grouping Google's products together I see the following groups:

Communications/Organisation

• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Reader
• Google Talk / Chat
  
• Google Groups (maybe)
  

Productivity

• Google Docs
• Google Spreadsheets
• Google Notebook

Web Stuff

• Google PageCreator
• Google Analytics
• Google Webmaster Tools
• Google Adwords
• Google Adsense

Personal Files (not yet exploited enough)

• Picasa
  
• Google Video (more public oriented)
• Google Drive ?
• Google Audio ?
  

That leaves things to do with search such as Google Maps, Froogle, Google Co-op, Google Base and Google Groups, etc which all obviously are to be integrated with the main search functionality.