Scheduled Downtime: springpad will be unavailable on Sunday morning 7am-9am (EST) for feature upgrades. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Our upcoming release of springpad includes a handful of features that our users have been asking for:
1. Mobile web access: View your springpad data on your iPhone or other browser-enabled phone. This is just the first step in our mobile initiative… Stay tuned for more fun ways to access springpad on the go in the coming months! We’ll be looking for users to test it out & give us feedback (feedback@springpartners.com).
2. Improved sharing features: Post items to Facebook easier, showing more details to your friends.
3. Performance improvements: We are continuing to do work to make springpad more responsive.
Be sure to check out feedback from springpad users on Get Satisfaction!
Free and Easy to Use Online Wedding Planner Helps Brides Plan the Perfect Wedding
Spring Partners today announced a new, free online wedding organizer to help brides plan and manage their entire wedding experience. The Wedding Planner springpad is designed for brides and their families who are increasingly using online resources to collect, plan, manage and share information about their big day.
The Wedding Planner provides features to suit today’s busy, online bride – from guest list integration with Facebook to local vendor resources – and allows couples to easily plan and manage their entire wedding in one convenient place.
Some of the Wedding Planner highlights include:
Ideas and inspiration – clip, save and share ideas from the web
Checklists – flexible task and shopping lists come pre-filled to help get started
Guests – create or import invite list, track RSVPs and gifts
Seating – build and manage seating chart and meal selections
Vendors – select and manage local vendors
Budget – easily track vendor quotes, expenses and payments
Spring Partners recently completed a successful pilot launch of the wedding planner – the DerbyCityBride.com Wedding Planner – partnering with Gannett’s LouisvilleCourier-Journaland Williams-Sonoma to help Louisville couples plan and manage their weddings.
“Our readers view us as a trusted resource for wedding planning in the Louisville and Southern Indiana area and we are always looking for ways to make that experience even better,” said Elaine Huot, VP Digital Media/Marketing, of the Courier-Journal. “We think our readers will find the Wedding Planner springpad to be a useful addition to DerbyCityBride.com’s already popular wedding news, photo galleries and access to creative ideas and recommendations.”
“springpad is a personal organizer that makes it easy to collect, organize, plan and share life’s tasks and events,” said Jeff Janer, CEO of Spring Partners. “The Wedding Planner springpad is a great way to help take the stress out of organizing by giving brides a single place to plan for the big day from start to finish.
Other free springpads include a weekly meal planner and a date night planner, among others. In addition, springpad makes it easy for people to create their own springpads and share them with their friends and the springpad community.
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...
Sign up for an account in just one click
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’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!
Scheduled Downtime: springpad will be unavailable on Sunday morning 7am-8am (EST) for feature upgrades. Sorry for the inconvenience.
This new release of springpad adds additional flexibility for you to configure your springpads the way you want to help manage your life…
User-customizable springpad templates
1. Tabs: Now add more tabs, rename them & reorder them 2. Add Bar: Now the bar dynamically list the types of things that you most frequently add to your springpad 3. Filtering: Add Narrow to any springpad
Hide complete tasks
Now, you can choose whether you want to hide or show completed tasks & checked off items in your springpad lists.
Attach notes & files to anything
Add time-stamped comments & attachments to your springpad, and if you share a system with someone else you’ll have an easier time collaborating.
Add contacts from facebook
1. Facebook integration: Add your facebook friends directly to your springpad 2. Select multiple contact at once
Wedding Planner
This release includes a handful of new features that will make the Wedding Planner both flexible & powerful. We’ll be introducing the Wedding Planner within the week, so stay tuned!
Springpad is a FREE application that lets you quickly and easily save the ideas and information you come across everyday: Recipes • Notes • Products • Restaurants Books • Movies • Music • Tasks • and more! Works on the web and on your phone.
Productivity can be social
