We’re really excited about the great response that springpad has gotten so far. Our users have been active and vocal and the reviews have been positive and constructive. We’ve got an exciting summer in store, with many new features that we hope you’ll enjoy and appreciate.
Collect, Organize and Act
Our goal with springpad is to build a platform to help you collect, organize and act on information that is important to you to help you get things done. From springpad templates to the use of data services and the clipper to help ease data entry, we’ve been laying the building blocks to help you achieve that goal.
I get my information from people I trust
One area that we’ve had huge amounts of feedback and requests for is a good way to help people share their springpad data with their friends. Afterall, when it comes to choosing new recipes, restaurants and things to buy, most people turn to the people they trust to get information. The wisdom of the crowd is great for some things, but when it comes to managing your life, it’s much more personal, it’s really about turning to people you trust – be it friends, a favorite blogger or a local expert.
Productivity can be social
In the coming weeks we’ll be rolling out features to help you share the data you’ve collected and also help you find new information from the people you trust.
Our first in a series of releases will help make productivity more social by letting you
- Make your data public
- Share on Facebook, Twitter and other places your friends and conversatons may be
- Send data via email
- Setup a profile that will display all of your public items in one place
- Follow other profiles and see what they are publicly sharing
- Easily discover and add new items from other profiles
Our first release will be Tuesday (May 19) morning. Springpad will be down between 7-9am EST.
Stay tuned for more information on this release and as always keep the feedback coming!
Interesting point about how managing your life is personal but yet people can still leverage the benefits provided by “social”. It makes complete sense. I’m excited about the new social features and to see how it all works!