We’ve spent the last couple of months hard at work to make Springpad a better service to help you remember the many little things you come across online and in the real world. We’re excited to announce today’s release – it’s got a bunch of improvements and simplifications focused on providing you more ways to capture information and better ways to access that information when you’re ready for it.

Here are some of the many features waiting for today you at Springpadit.com.
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We’ve just announced a slew of improvements to Springpad, but we’ve also removed a few things. Hopefully, these changes will simplify your Springpad experience. Have thoughts? Let us know.

Adding details to your items
1. We’ve removed star ratings.
2. Notes, media & links have been consolidated. If you’d like to add links, photos, videos or files to any of your items, click on “Notes”.

Adding things to My Stuff
3. Importing a recipe is a little bit different. In My Stuff, click on Recipe on the right hand side, then paste a link into the bar at the top.
4. Adding a Business or Restaurant in a specific city is slightly different. In My Stuff, click on Business or Restaurant on the right hand side, and start to type the name of what you’d like to save. Then there will be a little box that will allow you to change the location. Read more »

The Springpad Clipper allows you to quickly add things to Springpad while you surf the web. Just install the Spring It! button in your browser bar and you’ll be able to save anything to Springpad without leaving the web page that you’re currently viewing. Save an article you want to read later or something more specific like a product, recipe or restaurant.

How to get started:
- In Firefox, Safari, or Chrome: Drag above button to your browser’s link bar
- In Internet Explorer 7, you will need to click View->Toolbars->Unlock the Toolbars, then turn on the “Links” Toolbar. Right-Click the “Spring It!” button above and select “Add to Favorites”, then select the “Links” folder. In your IE Menubar, drag the “Links” toolbar out to the left until you see “Spring It!”
- In Internet Explorer 8: Right click on the “Spring It!” button above and select “Add to Favorites”, then in the “Create in” drop down menu select “Favorites Bar”.

Read more about the latest improvements to the Springpad Clipper.

The Springpad Clipper allows you to quickly add things to Springpad while you surf the web. Just install the Spring It! button in your browser bar and you’ll be able to save anything to Springpad without leaving the web page that you’re currently viewing.

We’ve gotten great feedback on our current clipper and are working on making it better!  Here’s a preview of some of the improvements coming soon: Read more »

We are introducing a whole slew of new springpad features tomorrow morning, with a focus on improving sharing.  Read more about the features below…

Sharing made easier

1. Social sharing: Share your great ideas & favorite things via facebook, twitter, or good old fashioned email.  Your friends don’t even need to be springpad users to see that new recipe that you’re recommending.
2. Share privately or publicly: You control whether you’d like your data to be viewable by all springpad user or just your closest friends.

Collect ideas from other springpad users

1. Follow people you trust: If someone sends you a recipe that you just love, you can follow them.  You’ll see anything new that they add to their springpad so you can make a copy of it for yourself.
2. Create your own profile: Begin curating your own collection of springpad items to recommend to other users.
3. Community Discussion: Invite your friends or other springpad users to tell you what they think of that restaurant that you are considering.

Navigation improvements

1. Organize your collections in My Stuff: As you begin to find ideas from the people you follow & add them to your collection, springpad will help you stay organized.
2. New sections in top navigation: Home lets you see what you’ve done in springpad lately, and Discover helps you to find new ideas to add to your springpad.

3. More room to add details: Each item in springpad now has larger view that gives you the room you need to keep all of your notes.

Use the springpad clipper to save Recipes & Products

In addition to clipping notes, now use the clipper to add recipes & products to your springpad as you surf the web.  The clipper can also be used as a basic bookmarklet for saving websites if you don’t highlight anything before you “Spring It!” Read more about the springpad clipper...

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Register for springpad using your Google or Facebook account.  We’ll soon be adding other services.

Send a copy of your data to your email account

Send a copy of your information to your email, so you can reference it when you aren’t logged into springpad.  This is our first step toward improving your ability to access your data wherever you’d like to.

We’ve gotten great feedback on our first version of our web clipper.  Watch the video & learn more.

Check out the new Springpad web clipper:
- The clipper now works in Internet Explorer 7
- Add a note to your springpad with an in-line dialog. We’ve gotten rid of the pesky extra pop-up.

How to Install the clipper to your browser toolbar:

Firefox, Safari, or Chrome
Drag above button to your browser’s link bar
IE7
Click View->Toolbars->Unlock the Toolbars
Turn on the “Links” Toolbar.
Right-Click the “Spring It!” button above and select “Add to Favorites”
Select the “Links” folder.
In your IE Menubar, drag the “Links” toolbar out to the left until you see “Spring It!”
IE8
Right click on the Spring It button and select “Add to Favorites”
In the “Create in” drop down menu, select “Favorites Bar”

How it works:
As you surf the web, find text, photos or links that you want to save for later.  Highlight what you’d like to clip & click on “Spring It!” in your browser’s tool bar.  A note will be added to your springpad.

We’re excited to launch the springpad bookmarklet, or “clipper”.

How it works:
1. Drag this link to your browser’s link bar: Spring It!
– Supported Browsers: Firefox, Safari & Chrome.
- Internet Explorer Users: Sit tight… Your turn is coming soon!

2. As you surf the web & find things you’d like to save for later…
- Highlight whatever you’d like to spring: text, images & links
- Click on Spring It!
- A note will be added to your springpad with a link back to where you found it

Some ideas for things to clip: The latest review for a book you’d like to buy, Hotel directions for your upcoming vacation, Supply lists for a home renovation project, Photos with the color palette you’d like for your wedding, Coupons for your favorite stores, A great poem or joke you’d like to remember…

Try it out & tell us what you think!

Watch the quick demo:

Upcoming enhancements to the springpad clipper:
1. Not everything you clip will become a note in springpad – Imagine adding lists, tasks, reminders, or even products you’d like to buy or movies you’d like to see!
2. Intelligent Clipping – If you’re on a recipe site we’ll try to spring the ingredients for you. On Amazon? We’ll spring the product.
3. You tell us – try out the clipper & let us know what other improvements you’d like to see!