Use Springpad for Travel Planning
When you’re starting to plan your next trip, use Springpad to keep things in order. Bookmark articles, create packing lists, save restaurants, make task lists and organize confirmation numbers – the best part is that it’s all in one place & accessible from anywhere!
Collect Ideas Using the Clipper
Still working on choosing a destination? Use the Springpad Clipper, Chrome Extension, or Firefox Extension to save notes or bookmarks about the places you’re thinking about. Organize those ideas with tags & by adding them to lists.
Pro Tip: Highlight Images & Text on any website to have it included in your saved note.
Email Your Itineraries to Springpad
When you receive confirmation numbers or itineraries in your email, just send them to springit@springpadit.com. A note will be created in Springpad with all of the content of your email. (Learn more about emailing notes into Springpad)
Pro Tip: Change the subject line of your email to what you’d like the title of your note to be – it will help you find it later.
Organize Your Plans in a Notebook
Create a notebook for your upcoming trip. Keep all of your itineraries, packing lists, notes & reminders in one place. You can access this notebook on the web or on one of our mobile apps. (Learn more about creating notebooks in Springpad)
Pro Tip: Use bulk edit to add lots of things to a notebook at once.
Create Packing Lists
Springpad helps you stay organized with many categories of things to save, one of which is packing lists. Create a packing list as you being to plan your trip, then check things off as you pack. Access & edit you packing list from one of our mobile apps.
Pro Tip: Give your packing lists a relevant title, like “Beach Supplies” or “Kid Stuff for Vacation” so you can find it to use again & again.
Keep All of Your To-Do’s in One Place
When planning a trip, you’ll definitely have a list of tasks that need done, like putting the mail on hold & turning down the thermostat. But, trip planning also often includes buying a good beach read, picking up a new gadget for the trip, or adding a great comedy to your netflix queue. So, when you think of to-do’s, don’t let yourself be limited to tasks.
Pro Tip: The tasks that you add to a list also show up under Tasks in My Stuff, so you can look at tasks by project (in the notebook) or all in one view.
Add the People & Places You’re Planning to Visit
Add restaurants that you’re planning to check out to Springpad – just by searching by the name/cuisine & location, we populate the address, phone number & website. Add notes with your confirmation numbers.
Pro Tip: Add your contacts via Springpadit.com, including phone numbers & addresses, then tag them to keep them organized. Some great tag examples: family, friends, college, work, xmascards09, babyshowerinvite
Access Your Plans from Your Phone
Use the Springpad iPhone app or Springpad Android app to access all of your travel plans while on the go. Tap on phone numbers to make calls, addresses to get directions & url’s to view websites. (Learn more about our mobile apps)
Pro Tip: On the iPhone, iPad & Android, Tap on My Stuff to filter by category. Scroll down to view just the contents of one of your lists.
22 Responses to “Use Springpad for Travel Planning”
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Tim Morrison says: Great article. Puts Springpad use in perspective.
Markus says: Too bad we can’t add a location that’s not on Yelp… Can’t you use Google Maps?
Too bad the Board’s maps dont seem to do anything. And how about being able to add an Activity? And how about hierarchies/trees of arbitrary depth (ie: Notebooks of Notebooks), rather than simply Notebooks with children?
Dick Nieuwenhuis says: Great idea! Just started planning a trip in a few weeks and that’s what I need.
However, question for Springpad: what about allowing to annex the flight and travel confirmation in the PDF-file I received from my travel agent? And the eletronic ticket? To copy-paste the PDF content into a Note is not that convenient.
Thanks!
Billy Gray says: As mentioned, the board map doesn’t seem to do anything. Even if I check the “show addresses” box, nothing happens, even though I have an address entered for my hotel in that notebook. Would be great if that worked, or even if I could manually enter an address.
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Hi Billy – since the business is marked as a hotel, it won’t show up on the map, which is a bug and we’ll be fixing it as soon as we can. If you change the “type” to business it will show up on the map (as a temporary fix)
Billy Gray says: Hi Brittni, thanks for responding. I’m glad you guys are in touch with your users.
Jill says: I would love to use Springpad for driving directions for a holiday weekend, but have found the map very frustrating. I’d like to copy the Google Maps driving directions, and several smaller maps, to my board. What is the best way to do this?
Austin says: Collaborative tools would really take this to the next level. My wife just made a packing list and I would love to be able to share and edit the same list from my Springpad.
A Shared notebook between the two of us could allow us to both add and edit our trip notes, pictures, etc. I don’t think there is anything out there that allows this kind of sharing and I think Springpad needs to make that innovation since they already have such a great service.
Perry says: Hi, great idea! I tried to follow but got a problem.
I saw a map in your sample board view. I want to do the same, so I located my destination in Google Map and then I pressed the SpringPad Clipper. Doesn’t work cause it treat it as a bookmark! So I repeated again and this time I use SpringPad Chrome Extension. Still no luck! It still treats it as a bookmark! So, how can I spring a map in the Google Map to the notebook, please ?
Evan says: Please enable feature to share boards! That would be awesome! Great work!
Evan
Lisa-Marie says: Great article. Keep bringing more of theses!!
Question? How to add pictures like that??? I am not able to get pictures to come up like a polaroid. I have been missing the ability to add picture for a long time. Please descrive how you do this.
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Lisa-Marie – If you items have nice thumbnail photo on them, they will show up on the board like shown above. To add a thumbnail to an item, attach a photo under Notes & News, then choose the photo by clicking on the little pencil on the thumbnail.
Lisa-Marie says: Oh and YES to being able to share notebook between users. Definetly a wanted feature.
AND a way to browse images in a nice way. Like a album.
Perfect timing for this article. I’m new to Spring pad and in the mist of planning our vacation. I’m definitely using tbese tips to get and stay organized.
Dan says: I am new to Springpad, but the Board feature seems a long way off. The map in particular is very frustrating. Even after changing my State Park location into a Business, it still defaults to a zoomed in view every time I refresh the page leaving me with nothing but a big green blob that I have to zoom out of every time.
Anyways, there seems to be a ton of potential here, and I’ll keep checking back, but for the time being things like event planning, etc. are better done elsewhere. That said, the task management looks pretty good, and the general social features are nice enough. This could be an amazing app for my wife and I to share. Both of us having access to everything from recipes to tasks to shopping lists to event planning would be great, but before we commit I would love to see the event planning aspect, including the Board feature developed far more. When it says “Add Map” I want to click it, type in an address or even two addresses for directions, and have it inserted as a note and on my board. That is intuitive and expected I think. And the map should default to the last view setting at the least.
There also needs to be decent security in the mobile apps especially – even it is just a basic pass-code.
OK. I’ll shut up! Thanks for listening and developing.
Anne says: I guess I’m still not understanding the map feature. You can add the map and zoom in, but it defaults back to the world map as soon as you leave the page. Doesn’t seem like there is a purpose to the map if there is no way to save it.
K. Bueso says: Perfect idea…we are planning our trip to Australia. One question…say I don’t get any signal and I have an Android Phone. Can I access all of my trip information on my Android App even if I don’t have any network access?
Thank you,
K. Bueso
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k. – Yes, all of your data is available on your device even when you are offline. The only exception is files and attached photos/files, which may not be available.
K. Bueso says: Thanks Katin!
Ritchie says: I’m loving this app, thanks for this. However, how about a few youtube videos showing us exactly what you have described above in your travel article?
A couple of other suggestions, better integration with google (maps, tasks, calendar etc) and sharing notes (as suggested above).
regards,
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Great article. Puts Springpad use in perspective.
Too bad we can’t add a location that’s not on Yelp… Can’t you use Google Maps?
Too bad the Board’s maps dont seem to do anything. And how about being able to add an Activity? And how about hierarchies/trees of arbitrary depth (ie: Notebooks of Notebooks), rather than simply Notebooks with children?
Great idea! Just started planning a trip in a few weeks and that’s what I need.
However, question for Springpad: what about allowing to annex the flight and travel confirmation in the PDF-file I received from my travel agent? And the eletronic ticket? To copy-paste the PDF content into a Note is not that convenient.
Thanks!
As mentioned, the board map doesn’t seem to do anything. Even if I check the “show addresses” box, nothing happens, even though I have an address entered for my hotel in that notebook. Would be great if that worked, or even if I could manually enter an address.
Hi Billy – since the business is marked as a hotel, it won’t show up on the map, which is a bug and we’ll be fixing it as soon as we can. If you change the “type” to business it will show up on the map (as a temporary fix)
Hi Brittni, thanks for responding. I’m glad you guys are in touch with your users.
I would love to use Springpad for driving directions for a holiday weekend, but have found the map very frustrating. I’d like to copy the Google Maps driving directions, and several smaller maps, to my board. What is the best way to do this?
Collaborative tools would really take this to the next level. My wife just made a packing list and I would love to be able to share and edit the same list from my Springpad.
A Shared notebook between the two of us could allow us to both add and edit our trip notes, pictures, etc. I don’t think there is anything out there that allows this kind of sharing and I think Springpad needs to make that innovation since they already have such a great service.
Hi, great idea! I tried to follow but got a problem.
I saw a map in your sample board view. I want to do the same, so I located my destination in Google Map and then I pressed the SpringPad Clipper. Doesn’t work cause it treat it as a bookmark! So I repeated again and this time I use SpringPad Chrome Extension. Still no luck! It still treats it as a bookmark! So, how can I spring a map in the Google Map to the notebook, please ?
Please enable feature to share boards! That would be awesome! Great work!
Evan
Great article. Keep bringing more of theses!!
Question? How to add pictures like that??? I am not able to get pictures to come up like a polaroid. I have been missing the ability to add picture for a long time. Please descrive how you do this.
Lisa-Marie – If you items have nice thumbnail photo on them, they will show up on the board like shown above. To add a thumbnail to an item, attach a photo under Notes & News, then choose the photo by clicking on the little pencil on the thumbnail.
Oh and YES to being able to share notebook between users. Definetly a wanted feature.
AND a way to browse images in a nice way. Like a album.
Perfect timing for this article. I’m new to Spring pad and in the mist of planning our vacation. I’m definitely using tbese tips to get and stay organized.
Bookmarked.
I am new to Springpad, but the Board feature seems a long way off. The map in particular is very frustrating. Even after changing my State Park location into a Business, it still defaults to a zoomed in view every time I refresh the page leaving me with nothing but a big green blob that I have to zoom out of every time.
Anyways, there seems to be a ton of potential here, and I’ll keep checking back, but for the time being things like event planning, etc. are better done elsewhere. That said, the task management looks pretty good, and the general social features are nice enough. This could be an amazing app for my wife and I to share. Both of us having access to everything from recipes to tasks to shopping lists to event planning would be great, but before we commit I would love to see the event planning aspect, including the Board feature developed far more. When it says “Add Map” I want to click it, type in an address or even two addresses for directions, and have it inserted as a note and on my board. That is intuitive and expected I think. And the map should default to the last view setting at the least.
There also needs to be decent security in the mobile apps especially – even it is just a basic pass-code.
OK. I’ll shut up! Thanks for listening and developing.
I guess I’m still not understanding the map feature. You can add the map and zoom in, but it defaults back to the world map as soon as you leave the page. Doesn’t seem like there is a purpose to the map if there is no way to save it.
Perfect idea…we are planning our trip to Australia. One question…say I don’t get any signal and I have an Android Phone. Can I access all of my trip information on my Android App even if I don’t have any network access?
Thank you,
K. Bueso
k. – Yes, all of your data is available on your device even when you are offline. The only exception is files and attached photos/files, which may not be available.
Thanks Katin!
I’m loving this app, thanks for this. However, how about a few youtube videos showing us exactly what you have described above in your travel article?
A couple of other suggestions, better integration with google (maps, tasks, calendar etc) and sharing notes (as suggested above).
regards,