If you paste in, say, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/, it should resolve to a hyperlink with “Official Google Blog” as the text.

Yup, FolderBoy is for anyone who likes to store things with zero fuss/overhead. And find what they’ve stored, later, really quick.

Mobile device goodliness will come over the next 3-6 months.

We are constantly improving the “temporal” side of FolderBoy (ie assigning a time to a note). We plan to have a Google Maps-style Calendar in about 2 months time, where you can grab the calendar with the mouse, and use the mouse-wheel to zoom in/out.

For causal note-taking, many of these web-based tool would do a fairly good job.

When evaluating a learning tool one may want to ask the following 5 questions:
1) Is it easy to use?
2) Is it distraction free and is the availability 100%?
3) Would my notes get automatically organized?
4) Is access to my notes easy?
5) Does it have powerful study tools?
(Very important for, after all, it’s a learning tool…)