Let's say President Barack Obama follows through on his promise to make government data more open, more standardized, and more transparent. How, then, do we keep track of all that freed information and the rich bounty of political reporting and commentary it will -- cross our fingers -- spawn?

Enter OpenCongress's new MyPoliticalNotebook -- what is, to be reductive, basically a political-themed Delicious meets Google Notebook. With a few clicks you can gather together blog posts, YouTube videos, news group articles, policy plan PDFs, and even that Word manifesto gathering dust on your desktop all to a wide-ruled online home.

A browser toolbar bookmarklet called "+MyPN" makes adding new items straightforward. And, this being a notebook, you can annotate what you've amassed. What MyPN has over Delicious or Google Notebook, though, a deep cache of legislative information. Bookmark an article on food safety, for example, file it under "Health," up pops the hottest health bills before Congress.

What would be even better: if related legislation was pulled from tags instead, so an article on melamine-tainted food would link directly to, for example, the Safe Food Act of 2007.

As for social features, your notebook is published as an RSS stream anyone can subscribe to. There's no way, as of yet, for your friends and political nemeses to jot notes on your notebook -- but, hey, they've only just launched.

(Disclosure: our Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are senior technology advisors to the Sunlight Foundation which, along with the Participatory Politics Foundation, is a founding organization behind OpenCongress.)