Does SpringPad make you as happy as me?
17 July, 2009, 7:15 am
SpringPad is an online notebook. It is probably beyond compare if you want to use the cloud to manage your life. It is accessible from all your connected devices. Now, at this point you might be asking, “another online notebook? Seriously? No thanks.”
There are indeed multiple options for this sort of thing, you might use google docs, one of the most popular is evernote. Evernote is a nice option for online notebooks, but springpad is bigger, stronger and meaner. So don’t screw around with it.
SpringPad Notebooks
SpringPad allows for multiple notebooks. You can see above that I have notebooks dedicated to different projects that I work on. I even have a notebook where I can put down books I want to read. (feel free to buy me one).
Not only can you put in todo items, simple things to remember, jot notes or ideas to follow up on later. You can also 
create events, with times and dates. There is also a simple way to export these into your google calendar. YAY!
So for instance, I can easily turn to springpad when I am planning or thinking through things. I can click and drag ideas from the “to be filed” pad into their appropriate place. Then I can look over my notes, plan and add events or important tasks that need to be scheduled for a time or day. These will then show up in my Google calendar!
You can also Share items with the world via facebook and twitter, or you can share with other springpad users. Need to communicate better with co-workers? How about a spouse? SpringPad will help!
There is also this cool little bookmarklet that allows you to highlight from any website, then create a springpad with the highlighted text! See a news article? a cool quote you want to save? A recipe? highlight and click!
This is freaking awesome stuff.
I know some of you are thinking, “what is google calendar.” And I know that people will email me asking why this springpad thing is so important. So let me break it down for you.
What’s the Big Deal
We live in a hectic cultural moment. No time before in history have so many demands been placed on people to produce so much and multitask so efficiently. It’s absolutely insane if you think about it.
If you are running a business, volunteering in a social organization or church, raising kids, cooking dinner, attending soccer, tennis and football games; then your life is simply not the way it is supposed to be. I realize that that might be the way it has to be right now, I am an webpreneur, and a church planter for Pete’s sake, you don’t think I feel a bit schizophrenic sometimes?
But Springpad can help. Springpad lets you organize and manage your time very effectively. And by the way google calendar? If you aren’t using it, you probably aren’t being very efficient with your time. Yes there are options. But shut up and try google huh?
Here is a great little video intro about springpad. If the beauty and simplicity doesn’t make you salivate, then the restaurant options they demonstrate will.
- How Do You Manage your Time
- hitask is Sexy, but maybe a little bit Shallow.
- What about RSS?
- Finally getting settled
- A Tiny Tirade About Bing
