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. Login now & check it out!
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 »
Whether you’re a food blogger or just a foodie, you can help your followers discover and save your recipes by adding them to Springpad.
And with only a few extra steps, your recipes will be more useful for everyone! Adding Cuisine & Course, Tags, and Photos & Videos only takes a few moments, but will make a big difference to your followers.
Cuisine, Course & Main Ingredient
Completing these fields helps categorize your recipe so that it appears in relevant search results. Tags
Adding tags also increases the likelihood that your recipe will turn up in search results – think about how your recipes fit into various categories and add those as tags. Read more »
That’s right, you can now access all of your springpad data on your iPhone, Blackberry, smart phone, or any browser-enabled device! Once you’ve set up a springpad account, just point your mobile device to my.springpadit.com to login.
Features:
- Access all of your springpad data, sorted by type
- Check off tasks & list items
- View each of your springpads, keeping things organized by project
- Add new notes & tasks on the go!
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! Try it out & let us know what you think!
Email us at feedback@springpartners.com or leave a note on Get Satisfaction!
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!
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.
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!
Over the past two days, a bunch of new users signed up for springpad, thanks in part to a great write-up from Mashable. We’d like to welcome our new users with the introduction of a couple of new features.
New springpad features, introduced today:
1. Pin open the the left navigation. This will help those of you who want to see all of your springpads & folders while you work.
2. Print individual items. Find Print under Options, on the bottom corner of any item.
Please continue to tell us what you’d like to see from springpad! You can contact us at feedback AT springpartners DOT com.
Over the weekend, in addition to releasing the new Date Night Planner, we made some great improvements to springpad.
New Features, available now in springpad :
1. Navigation Change: You’ll notice a collapsible “drawer” on the left of the screen. From talking to users, we learned that most people focus on one task at a time. By removing the clutter, we’re hoping to help with that focus.
2. Bookmarklet:the web clipper is now available for Safari, Firefox & Chrome. Internet Explorer support is coming soon!
3. Calendar: We’ve made several usability improvements – Check it out!
4. Gifts: Keep track of the gifts you give – Record recipient, price & tracking number.
5. Business Locations: Add businesses to your springpad – We’ve integrated with Yelp & Yahoo Local to make searching quick & easy.
6. Map Events: Add Contacts or Businesses to Events to make them show up on your springpad maps.
7. Date Night Planner:read more about our latest springpad launch!
Check back here for new features, system notes, known issues & plans for upcoming releases. Your feedback is very important, so please don’t hold back! You can contact us at feedback AT springpartners DOT com.
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.
