Last week Katin gave you a sneak peak of the improvements we’re making to the Springpad Clipper that will make it even easier to capture things that you come across on the web.
We’ve also received a bunch of feedback from our users who want help managing their growing sets of data in Springpad. Today I’m thrilled to give you a preview of the next round of enhancements: Read more »
Posted in Using Springpad
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!
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We are introducing a whole slew of new springpad features tomorrow morning, with a focus on improving sharing. Read more about the features below…
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.
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.
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.
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...
Register for springpad using your Google or Facebook account. We’ll soon be adding other services.
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.
Posted in Using Springpad
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…
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
Now, you can choose whether you want to hide or show completed tasks & checked off items in your springpad lists.
Add time-stamped comments & attachments to your springpad, and if you share a system with someone else you’ll have an easier time collaborating.
1. Facebook integration: Add your facebook friends directly to your springpad
2. Select multiple contact at once
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!
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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.
Posted in Using Springpad
Since launching the springpad public beta last week, we’ve experienced an overwhelming response & have collected some great feedback & questions. We continue to fix bugs every day.
Scheduled Downtime: springpad will be unavailable this Sunday morning 5am-11am (EST) for maintenance & upgrades. We apologize for the inconvenience.
New Features, available in springpad on Saturday morning:
1. Basic printing on all springpads.
2. Many improvements to speed and usability for Internet Explorer 7 users.
3. Multiple usability improvements to Recipes, including support of more recipe websites.
Check back later for new videos, highlighting lots of different features…
Answers to popular questions:
1. Mobile apps: Our goal is to make springpad accessible wherever and however you want. We’re working on mobile access (hint: 7 out of 10 of us have iPhones) and also inbound messaging support.
2. Backup: It’s your data and we want to make sure there are no barriers when you want to access it. So we want to hear from you! What formats make the most sense for backing up your data? Want it in a set of PDF’s or a giant XML file? A specific format by data type? Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
3. Google: Read more about how syncing with Google works. We’ve also heard many requests for mass-import of your contacts and think it’s a great idea.
4. Sharing: To create a family account, the email addresses that you invite to be members of your account must NOT already have springpad accounts. Read what to do if your family members already have springpad accounts. If you just want to send a copy of something to a friend, click on Share.
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.
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We had some issues yesterday with user registration & the overall speed of springpad.
Updates:
1. System performance: We’ve made some improvements to our infrastructure, making springpad far more responsive. Let me know if you are still having issues.
2. Google Chrome: Oops, we didn’t mean to keep Chrome users out of springpad. Come on in today!
3. Feedback: Keep it coming! We’ll continue to improve springpad based on your ideas & issues. Check out some of the conversations on Get Satsfaction.
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Recently, we were talking to a few of our test users and one guy said that springpad is so easy even his wife can use it. I wasn’t really sure how to react to this, being a woman, a wife, and a relatively technical one at that. But it turns out that I kind of agree with him. Wait, let me explain…
One of the key ideas behind springpad is that it’s built for regular people, who use fun and functional online tools like Facebook & email. You don’t need to be super-techie to use springpad, but if you are you’ll still find some great features that you like.
The other key idea is that we are helping people organize life projects, like managing shopping lists, planning potluck dinners, and organizing family vacations. Juggling all of those life tasks is not easy, and someone who is going to make the leap to try to do it in a tool definitely doesn’t have the time to mess around with settings and features that take hours to understand.
So, let me rephrase:
springpad is so easy that even your wife (who has to take the kids to school before work, do the grocery shopping, rake the leaves, manage the household budget, redecorate the living room, and plan for christmas) would use it.
and…springpad is so easy that even your husband (who has to take out the trash, make the coffee, pick up the kids after school, sort the mail, pick up the dry cleaning, do the dishes, and plan the trip to grandma’s for thanksgiving) would use it.
And I bet your neighbor, your classmate, your child’s teacher, your running partner, and your co-workers workers would use springpad, too.
Posted in Under the Hood
I’d like to introduce you to springpad’s Community Manager. She’s totally in love with springpad, but has promised to put that aside for you – our community of users. Oh right, her name is Katin (that’s me)!
Up until now I was the Product Manager for springpad, but have always felt that building a product that truly addresses a user’s wishes & needs is really more about focusing on the user than on the product itself. Then, at BlogHer Boston last week Sarah Dopp asked me, “So, are you the Community Manager?” – After hearing myself stumble through a hesitant reply, I decided that it’s time to declare my focus… So I say it now with confidence and excitement. Yes, I am the Community Manager.
So, what’s that mean? Mainly, I’ll be listening. Listening to you talk about your lives, your work & your passions. Then I’ll figure out how springpad can help. Our goal is to build a product that is simple, elegant & above all useful – something that helps real people get things done & organize their lives.
In fact, let’s start now. Tell me what is bugging you today, what’s rolling around in the back of your mind. What tasks, appointments, projects, parties, trips, plans are stressing you out? Check out the current version of springpad, then tell me how YOU imagine it being useful in your life. I’ll do my best to make sure we build the features you need.
Find me on twitter, at thesimpleme, or on Get Satisfaction. Send me a message from the “Give Feedback” button in springpad, via email (feedback AT springpartners DOT com), or just by commenting on this post. Basically, find me wherever you want to.
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