I know this is an older blog post, but since I believe you have some input with regards to Zoho, here goes. I like Zoho Notebook, but am very disappointed they do not allow the creation of notebooks, folders (tabs) within notebooks, and then pages within folders (tabs). That is the paradigm Microsoft used for OneNote, and I must say for once Microsoft got it right.

Zoho allows you to create a notebook, and then all the notebooks just show up as folders above. That is, in my opinion, redundant and bad UI design. The advantage of the Microsoft approach is that it allows better, much better segregation of data without having to create countless notebooks and countless pages. For this reason I must stick with OneNote.

The object sharing capability in Zoho Notebook to me sounds like DCOM and OLE in Microsoft Windows! It would be interesting to see how it works when someone needs to update a diagram embedded in a document, let us say a CAD drawing in DWG format. Nevertheless it is a giant step forward to build such capability within the Java environment. The Zoho Office Suite didn’t work out the way as expected though when I tested it last December! The behaviours were unpredictable when using different browsers (e.g. IE6, IE7, and Firefox), and it is not quite browser independent yet!

Best regards
 -Francis