Save Anything to Springpad Using Email
Now you can save notes, tasks or any other type of information simply by sending an email to Springpad. Saving by email also gives you a simple way to save things from your mobile phone. So, the next time you find something you want to save while surfing the web from your phone, just send the link to Springpad. We’ll do the rest! (watch a video)
How It Works
- Send an email to springit@springpadit.com from the email account that you used to sign up for Springpad (you can confirm or change your email address in Settings).
- Within a few moments, a new item will be created in Springpad that includes the content of your email. The subject of your email will become the item’s title. Any attached files will be attached to the new item in Springpad.
- Springpad will automatically categorize links that you email to become bookmarks, recipes, products, books, etc.
- If there’s a problem, Springpad will send you a reply letting you know that your item was not created.
- If you would like to send your notes to a personal email address, you can find it under Settings/Services
- This will allow you to send notes in to Springpad from other email accounts
- This personal email address can be “regenerated” at any time
- This is the recommended technique if your email is coming from your own custom domain
Tip: Add springit@springpadit.com or your custom email address to your email contacts, so it’s easy to forward things into Springpad.
How to Specify Notebooks & Tags
- To set a specific notebook as the destination of your new item, add @notebook name to the end of the email subject. You can define as many notebooks as you’d like.
- To add tags to your new item, add #tag name to the end of the email subject. You can define as many tags as you’d like. Note that tags are case-sensitive.
Details on Defining a Specific Data Type
Springpad allows you to save lots of types of items, and you can choose the type you want to save when you send in emails.
Notes
By default, Springpad will turn all emails into Notes, including the full text of the email as the note’s body.
Bookmarks and Other Links
If you send in a link from a popular site, Springpad will try to detect the type of site the link is from and create the correct item. This works best from recipe sites and popular online retailers.
If no specific site type is detected, Springpad will create a Bookmark. If you are sending in a link that is not from a Springpad-supported site, you can set the type by the method below.
Define a Specific Data Type
You can choose to create any data type that is available in Springpad by beginning your subject line with the the type name. For example:
Recipe: Best Cherry Pie Ever
Movie: The Fighter
Restaurant: Sushi Samba
Tasks
The body of the email will become the description of the task. Set a Due Date by including the desired date at the beginning of the email. Note that the due date will be set by the first date listed in the email, so if you are forwarding an email to create a task, any date in the forward header will be picked up and marked as the due date.
Use the following date formats:
Specific Date: mm/dd, mm/dd/yy , or mm/dd/yyyy
Common-Language Day: i.e. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Upcoming Day of the week: i.e. Tuesday will be the upcoming Tuesday
Events & Alarms
Set a specific date and time by including the desired date and time at the beginning of the email body. Times will be based on the timezone that you have set in your Account Settings. Events will be one hour long. Alarms will be created to be sent to your default email channel.
Use the following date and time formats:
Specific Date: mm/dd, mm/dd/yy , or mm/dd/yyyy
Common-Language Day: i.e. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Upcoming Day of the week: i.e. Tuesday will be the upcoming Tuesday
Time (any of the following examples will work): 3pm, 3:00am, 3:00pm, 15:00
Check Lists, Shopping Lists & Packing Lists
The body of the email will become the list, with each new item defined by a new line in the email.
Limits on what can be emailed into Springpad
- Emails sent to Springpad must be smaller than 10MB
- Attached files must be smaller than 5MB
Questions, Ideas, or Problems?
Let us know on our support forum!
135 Responses to “Save Anything to Springpad Using Email”
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Todd K. says: Does my old email address with unique identifier that looks like “springpadit+123456789@springpadit.com” still work or should I delete it from my contacts?
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Todd – it should still work. You can confirm the address by Logging in at Springpadit.com, then click on Settings, then Services.
Martin says: Hi all at Springpad. I’ve not played with all of these cool new features yet but I must say these are awesome. Being able to send emailed content directly to a Notepad is fantastic for a GTD fan. One less step to have to manage 
Ozgur Akan says: It looks like for tasks we can not give a category. Due Date has been mentioned in this post but category hasn’t.
AJS says: That’s just bizarre. I only stumbled across this because I was pondering whether to use Springpad as a task manager again and a search for “email tasks” facility revealed this update published just today! Not only that you can attach files as well – I tested it and it works as advertised.
Fantastic stuff, I am moving all of my projects and tasks over to Springpad.
DoubleG says: Great.
This new send via email feature is just icing on the cake for such a great service.
One thing I’d like to add, how about notebook assignment, lets say I have a notebook called “Work Stuff”.
It would be cool if I could put a hash tag in the subject line, or at the top of the email, #Work Stuff# and then the email submitted would go into that notebook.
Is this doable?
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Travis – just put @notebook or #tag in the subject to assign a notebook or tag to your emailed item.
J Williamson says: I have seveal mail accounts. If I find a message on one email account and want to port it over to Springpad..how can I do that?
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J – find your custom Springit address on springpadit.com under settings then services.
Ozgur – We have left out task categories because we are planning to merge them with tags.
Update! Now you can set task due dates via email! See the details in the main post above!
tim says: After all the great work you do I hate to ask this: but just clicking note or Task in Springpad widget ,or using the share feature seems much faster to me…why would using mail be used?
Thanks!
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Tim – using Mail-in is useful if you’re already in your mail client doing other things, forwarding mail, and for iOS users who don’t have a built in Share feature.
Ozgur Akan says: Merging categories with tags makes sense, as categories are just a form of fixed tags. I like sorting by category especially when I am in “all my stuff”
Alysson says: Am I able to to send something to multiple notebooks? e.g. @work @this week
scorpioninblue says: I tried to test the feature of adding a task to a specific notebook via email, but the task only went to My Stuff and not my DAILY PLANNER notebook. Is this feature not working due to the format of my notebook title? The title is all capital letters as shown above, also should there be a space between the two words or should it be typed as one?
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Hi Scorpion – you should be able to send to @DAILY PLANNER and it should go in. If not, CC me on another email you try (brittni@springpartners.com) so I can see what’s going wrong.
Laurie says: I’m trying to forward an email to Springpad from my Outlook account at work. I’m registered with Springpad using my gmail address, not my work address. In the Outlook email, I copied & pasted my personal address (the one that looks like “springpadit+123456789@springpadit.com”) into the TO field and put the type, notebook & tags in the SUBJECT field, as instructed in this post. I keep getting the following error message. What am I doing wrong?
“Sorry, we could not find a user with the email address xxx@xxx.gov. Try logging into Springpad to see the email-in address for your springpad account.”
Thanks for your help. I’m new to Springpad & so far I really like it!
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Laurie – if you’re sending from the address connected to your Springpad account, just send to springit@springpadit.com
Ramesh –
1. Please send me an email at brittni@springpartners.com to tell me more about how you’re formatting the email (FWD or CC me on an email you try, that would be best)
2. No – currently you cannot update any notes in Springpad via email-in (whether they were initially emailed in or not)
April says: Woo Hoo! Thanks Katin & Springpad! This is great!
rameshkarthik says: I have two issues as of now according to the above post
1. I am not able to send a check list to a note book as advertised
2. Say I have sent a note/task/etc to a notebook via e-mail, is it possible to update that particular note/task/etc via e-mail. Please note that it should not replace an already existing task/notes. Is this feature currently present
Regards,
K.Ramesh Karthik.
gnutin says: Same as Ramesh. Can’t send a checklist. The email just ended up as a note. I tried subject beginning with “CheckList:” and “Checklist” and in both cases wanted the checklist to go to a notebook, so appended @notebookname to the subject line. The note was created in the correct notebook, just not as a checklist.
elemer99 says: Great feature!
Sent a mail from gmail.com and my international chars á,é,ö was converted to vé á .. in the checklist items.
How can I avoid this?
Thanks,
Gabriel
elemer99 says: converted to: & # 225; & # 223; – (without spaces)
Nate Fish says: This is awesome! Thank you for adding this feature. You didn’t just add it, you added it RIGHT. This will be a powerful tool.
Lawrence says: This is a real cool product. Love it so far.
I do have 1 little problem, using PC or iPhone, I have problem when the email has attachment of Excel files (small one).
I attached 2 small Excel Files and some JPG.
The JPG has no problem. But for the Excel, it is linked to
“http://springpad-user-data.s3.amazonaws.com/0b/0b4557bf-06c6-4598-887e-4d6f84aebdd9/0b3d1b15-611f-4c00-b26d-9639ac79e2db/filenamechanged.xlsx”
When I try to open it, it say on my Firefox
“This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
AccessDeniedAccess Denied6375620CFF244EB72a5uVCHjL72IJRqGQi7p/W7MohWq+BEArWo0V4KFNjnXaZ5RP1ai8558q84/od9Z”
Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks in advance for the tips
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AJS says: I don’t use Springpad for task management although I did give it a try. The lack of sort options made it a bit messy, but as a note taker and reference system it’s replaced Evernote for me. Not only does it loook great but it’s lightning fast on Android. I used to get fed up waiting for Evernote files to load on my mobile and while it’s improved recently it still lags massively behind Springpad.
scorpioninblue says: I’ve found task management to be a breeze with Springpad, you can either use one notebook for all task or keep them in specific ones. For instance I keep all my financial task in my financial notebook. Naturally you can see all tasks together under “All my Stuff”. I love the fact that you can set a sms and email alert for any task that you date! I also like seeing them in the Gmail module of Rainmeter on my desktop, so I won’t overlook them!
Sandra says: I sent a recipe to the springpad email address. It shows up on the Internet site but not in my iPhone app. How do u sync them?
Cal Croucher says: I’ve been using the email feature for Springpad and for the most part think it’s great. I’m finding however that if I am on my laptop and want to send an email to my springpad via my email client, Windows Live Mail, the message that ends up in Springpad is perfect accept it can’t be edited. When I go to the note in springpad and click to edit I receive a message that the note has special formatting and all I can do is add a new note but can’t edit when I emailed into Springpad.
Are others finding this problem?
Can anyone help so I can use this excellent feature?
Juan Carlos Gonzalez says: Hi, i try to save a Springpad using -algo Poemas?- on subject, haven t registered something yet. The body message is -Me miro, yo sone, mas bien vole, imagine una nueva pelicula.-
I m using acute accents in spanish.
What is wrong?
Cal Croucher says: This “email everything” works great from my Droid however I have tested the same feature from my desktop email client, Windows Live Mail, and none of the notes make their way to Springpad. It doesn’t seem to matter whether they are rich text or plain text they never show up in Springpad. I hope someone at Springpad can verify this problem and come up with a resolution. This is a really handy feature that I would like to use to :cc my various springpad notebooks but seems I can only use it if I’m on my smartphone which somewhat limiting.
Jabbo126 says: Works fine, but i have to ask – is there a way how to send through e-mail note to specific existing Task? I can send note only into notebook and then manualy asign it to Task or is there some solution?
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Jabbo – sorry, no way to send to a task already in Springpad. The best you could do I guess is to set up a tag from things you want linked together.
Jabbo126 says: Ok, thanx – and i have one another question. I installed Springpad extension for Chrome so i can acces my tasks faster, but i REALLY miss the function for editing text direclty in this extension. Maybe you can add it in next version?
This just doesn’t work for me…I have tried to send multiple times to the address and it seems to go into cyberspace… 
Jabbo126 says: edward: what e-mail client do you use? It works for me with Gmail like charm…
kari says: I love, love this new feature! Being able to specify which notebook, tags, etc is great! I still use my personal springpad email address though, because sending all emails from the email account that is registered with springpad is not convenient and unrealistic.
Thom says: Have sent multiple emails from my iphone using my gmail account and none of them have showed up. I tried both the generic springit@springpadit.com and my personal springit+number email address. Nothing shows up.
Sandra says: I too send the email from my iphone. It appears in my springpad online acct but not on springpad iPhone app. I have tried to sync through app settings and still nothing.
Alysson says: @Thom & Sandra
I find the iPhone/iPad app to be delayed when syncing. The have been many times when I’ve added something to the web app, then made sure I manually synced (not sure if that’s grammatically correct) my phone. The new item(s) did not show up for 15-20 minutes. It has taken even longer when emailing a task, though mine have all shown up eventually. (BTW-I use the personal Springpad address exclusively.)
Christian says: How do I email myself voice notes?
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Hi Christian – sorry, no way to email that type of note right now but it’s a great idea!
Mark says: I have attempted to send an email from my ipad2 to SP while on my browser. They do not show up. I am using the correct address and selecting “Mail Link to this Page” button. What possibilities are happening as to why SP is not receiving it. How long does it typically take to show up in SP? Thanks
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Mark – Be sure you are sending email from the email address that’s on your account. If you are still having issues, please cc me on the next email you send so I can figure out what’s going on – katin@springpartners.com
April says: Since I was sending (forwarding) from my work email account, I sent to my personal Springpad email address. I changed the subject line in my forwarded email to create a task in Springpad. It did create the task in the correct notebook with the tag assigned, but the due date just showed up in the description of the Task (I used Tomorrow.) instead of actually assigning the due date.
I will play around with it some more, just wondering if this was a known bug or I was doing something wrong.
Anne says: Hi. i just tried sending an email to springit@springpadit.com and nothing has happened. how long does it take for the email to enter springpad?
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Anne – we had a delay a few hours ago, but it should be fine now. If you’re still having issues, let us know! – feedback@springpartners.com
Nick says: Same here. Sent an email to springit@springpadit.com about 20 minutes ago; still hasn’t shown up on my springpad account.
Nick says: Follow up: a second email I sent a few minutes later came through just fine. The first still hasn’t shown up. It had a .PDF attached. Could that be the problem?
Nick says: Both have arrived now. Just a delay, I guess.
Matos says: I just tried to email an event and it got posted on springpad. But it doesn’t sync to gcalendar. If I create a new event on website, it shows up on gcalendar. Bug or not supposed to work?
Matos says: Another thing, when I create an event from an email, timezone doesn’t work. I have it configured on settings as GMT:00 but the event shows up at GMT:+5
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Matos – The time zone issue is a bug we’re working on fixing! Sorry for the trouble.
Are you still having trouble syncing?
Vishal says: I sent a note through email and had @Notebook Name at the end of the subject, but the email appeared under all my stuff and not in the notebook named “Notebook Name”. Do I need to enclose it in quotes?
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Vishal – no quotes required. Be sure the notebook name was capitalized & spelled properly. If you’re still having trouble, try again & cc katin@springpartners.com so I can see what went wrong.
Peter says: Just started using Springpad and it is everything I wanted in a note and data organizer. Very cool app.
Two things that could be improved:
1. Add a “Document” category. Sometimes people will want to save an item as a document and not just as a note.
2. When adding a scanned bar-code allow a choice to save it as the user chooses.
We use barcodes at my work and when I scanned my personal badge it automtically comes up as a consumer product and doesn’t give me the choice to save it as my personal ID badge.
Patrick says: Whenever I send a checklist via email, only a few of the items become part of the checklist. The rest are listed as a note below the checklist. How can I correct this?
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Patrick – be sure you do no put any line breaks in the list when you email it in. If you are still having trouble, please send another email & cc me so I can check it out – katin@springpartners.com
Matos says: @katin: I just tried one more time, by sending a test event from email. Got the event created on Spad just fine, but again not showing on google calendar.
This was the subject line used:
Event: evento criado no email 07/28 3pm
If I had this working correctly it would be great, because I could use the reminders of gcal on my android phone.
Matos says: Besides, the android app doesn’t have the event option on Add by Type, so I can’t use that either to create an event to sync with gcal.
Any reason why event is not on android app?
Mark says: How long does this email function take? I send an email and nothing happens.
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Mark – saving something from email should take a matter of minutes (but up to an hour, based on traffic). If you are having an issue, send us a note with your username to feedback@springpartners.com.
Darren Wall says: I’m trying to email in an alarm, and no matter what format I send the date and time in, its sets the reminder to the time the mail arrives in SpringPad. I’ve tried putting it in the subject as well as including it as the first line in the body but they both aren’t working? The format of the date/time I am trying to use is:
08/11/2011 at 1pm
Any ideas?
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Hi Darren – that’s very odd – could you email me at brittni@springpartners.com and maybe even CC me on a test email you try? Thanks!
Core says: Works great – with some occasional delay – here.
Would it be possible to edit an event via email. Change date/time or other?
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Core – Glad it’s working well for you! Editing via email isn’t currently possible – neat idea, though.
nicholas says: not only is it really slow, its also really unintuitive.
frankly its easier just to send myself an email.
i’m sorry Springpad, but you didn’t ‘get me’ and I don’t ‘get you’. I’m afraid we’ll have to part ways now.
Fernando says: I am having a problem creating events when forwarding messages.
I did the following test: In a blank email, I input the date – 9/23 – and the time – 3pm. This email created an event on September 23 at 3pm fine.
When I forwarded a previous message with the same instructions (9/23 3pm) the event was not created correctly. It was created as “today”.
what is happening?
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Hey Fernando – has to do with hidden things that the fwd email is including in it, which confuses our email server when it tries to pick out the date. Try putting the date/time in the subject line.
Mina says: Anyone know how to copy and paste the whole notebook? Thank you!
Andreas says: Have tried to e-mail notes to myself multiple times, but to no avail. Is this feature working properly?
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Andreas – sorry about that, should be working! Could you CC me on another email you try so I can make sure everything looks ok? brittni@springpartners.com
Nicole says: I forwarded two emails from the email I used to register Springpad to the springit email address but the attachments (word document or PDF) never show up on my iPhone app and the body of the note is blank. All I see on my iPhone is the title of the email. I’m using an iPhone 3GS with os 4.3.5 (8L1).
Marc Wolters says: Hi. i just tried sending an email to springit@springpadit.com and nothing has happened. how long does it take for the email to enter springpad?
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Hi Marc – it shouldn’t take more than 20 mins to go through our queue and be processed, but if it’s taking longer please email at feedback@springpartners.com and let us know when you sent the email and what your username is!
Jonathan Price says: I installed Springpad (Android app)earlier this week on my Samsung Galaxy 10.1. I have been trying to send a file created in Docs to Go (size 11k)to myself. The note is created, with the name of the file as the subject of the note, but the file itself does not show up as an attachment. What am I doing wrong?
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Hi Jonathan – if you’re using the Share feature to send to Springpad it does not support attachments right now. Sorry for the confusion.
Jonathan Price says: I’m still confused. I don’t think I am using the Share feature. I e-mailed the file as an attachment, both from my registered address to springit@springpadit.com and from another address to my assigned Springpad e-mail address. In both cases, Springpad created the note but without the file attached. I understood from the instructions above that the file should appear as an attachment to the note that gets created that way in Springpad. If that is not supported at this time, that strikes me as a pretty big gap in how you can get content into Springpad.
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Hi Jonathan – you’re right, the file should be there. If it’s not, please CC me on another email with file attachment attempt at brittni@springpartners.com
HounD says: Check list from email seems not to work
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Houn – make sure you’re formatting the subject line exactly how it is in this post.
If you’re still having trouble please send me an email at brittni@springpartners.com
dimuthu says: Is it possible to craft an email to add an Attachment to an existing note or task?
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dimuthu – That’s a great idea, but not something that’s currently possible. The closest we get is allowing you to send in an email with an attachment & add it to a specific notebook. If this is a feature that you would really like to see added, I suggest adding it to our user forum at http://getsatisfaction.com/springpartners to drum up support from other users!
Bharath says: I have already mailed the springpad authorities around 3 months back informing that there is no provision in springpad for knowing the date on which we made the note and the change still has not been implemented
Stacy says: I fail to see the value add. The time and clicks for me to send a specially crafted email will take the same or more effort than jumping on my computer or Android phone
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Hey Stacy –
Many users find that saving via email is helpful when they want to forward in something they’ve received via email, like a flight itinerary or a receipt for an online purchase.
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joee says: Would it be feasible to let us set up our own custom email addresses. The only times I need the custom address are the times when I don’t have access to my contact list, and springit+?????????@springpadit.com isn’t really memorable. If we could replace the random nine-digit number with our userID, or a string we choose, the personal email address would be a lot more useful.
Allan Bell says: tried email with task and notebook identified. ended up in all my stuff. tried with and without quotes
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Hi Allan – That is frustrating – sorry for the trouble! Just to confirm, you are putting the task name and notebook name in the Subject in the following format: Task: Task Name @Notebook Name. If you enter the notebook title incorrectly, it will not add to any notebook and go into My Stuff. For example, if my notebook is called “My First Notebook” and I type it in as @myfirstnotebook (without the spaces) it will not add to the notebook. Let me know if that helps or if the problem persists: dbramhall@springpartners.com
Madina says: Why sprigpad not downloading attachments from email in proper type? Even PDF..? just shown some file, no type.. may be i do something wrong? help please!
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Hi Madina – I’m sorry you are having trouble! You are emailing in files as attachments, is that correct? What happens when you download the files? What do they download as?
Madina says: Yes, correct. Emailing files as attachments, PDF files. and after downloading they download as just file, no type, i have to choose a program to open..
2nd question: is there any limit for email’s size to send to springpad?
And last: why springpad not opening office files, like xls, didn’t check *doc though.. but it will be nice, if office files will open too, for example in googledoc app
Thanks for response!
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Hi Madina – The file size limit (per file) is 5MB. Can you please clarify your problem with xls documents? Are you having trouble uploading them to Springpad?
Madina says: Yes, xls file is simply not opening from springpad.. what about PDF from eMail?
Hi, I have problem with characters in emails (unicode). On note list every national char is in unicode format for example char polish l (l with line) is (ampersand hash 322 and 
. I can edit this note, save and everything is OK, but this is crazy
james says: Is there a way to add a few more lines to an email when I create a task so that an alarm is also generated for that task?
Hi Devin, yes. From my account to springit@springpadit.com. I’m sending mails from gmail.
Devin, here are screenshots:
Note list (strange chars) – http://efocus.pl/sp1.jpg
Note edit (everything OK)- http://efocus.pl/sp2.jpg
I tried with different code page under gmail settings (ISO-8859-2 and UTF-8) but without results.
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Ok Devon, thank you for that. I see the problem you are having. If you look at the note in the detail view you see the code, but when you are in the note you see the correct characters, right?
joee says: Back on the 17th I tried the “send to Springpad via email” technique and I got nothing in Springpad, no error email, nothing. I sent the email to my universal address, springit+?????????@springpadit.com *my number instead of question marks, of course).
How can I find out what went wrong?
Thanks.
joee says: Well, that’s interesting. I checked on my PC and there’s an item created and now that I’ve done that, it’s showing up on my Android?! I’ll have to try this again and see what happens.
joee says: Springpad took my email and created an item (joeellett | jan 17 at 9:03pm) with the body of my email in an attachment. Since I used a subject of “Check List: To-Do” I expected the email body to be in some sort of check list format. The note is titled “To-Do” as expected, but the email body isn’t in check list format or even in simple notes format; it’s in an attachment. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
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Hi Joee – So the email was saved in Springpad as a note? Was there anything in the body of the email (like a signature)? What email client were you using to email the checklist? Can you please email details to dbramhall@springpartners.com? Thanks!
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Okay, this is a known improvement we need to make with unicode characters. THey don’t always translate well. Thanks for chiming in on this – we’re working on it
Tom says: So far, your app has been difficult to use. Cannot consistently cut and paste notes, save pics, and lastly, somehow cannot email/share to my wife. With no clear instructions, one has to stumble around in your app, and hope buttons, choices, options appear that are useful and most importantly, WORK! Sorta useless if we have to jump through hoops when we can cut and paste, email the old way. Was hoping your app would allow collating things along with staying within your app to share, but…. you guys exercise waayyyy too much control without recognizing what you wanted to achieve in the first place. Or was the control thing more desireable? I don’t mind cloud computing, but seriously, isn’t the point to make things easier?
Like the very substance that all electronic devices rely on(electrons), I’ll find an easier path.
Not yours.
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Hi Tom – I’m sorry to hear that you are frustrated with our app. We do our best to make it easy to navigate, and appreciate hearing constructive feedback about ways that we can make your experience better. It sounds like you’re at the end of your rope already, but if you have a specific problem you’d like to report, feel free to email it to me directly, so we can look into it: devin@springpartners.com. Thanks, and sorry!
Ewan Mathieson says: re: Date Settings
I have just started using Springpad and am currently setting it up for my use. Being European I am used to expressing dates in the format dd/mm/yy. It appears that Springpad does not allow date formats to be altered?
How do I set Springpad to express dates in format dd/mm/yy?
Thanks.
Just started using your app, and found what Ewan Mathieson missing as well. I’d be great if I could set my own formattings for stuff like dates (possibly also custom decimal points and prices in the future, who knows 
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Thanks for such a great system!
Sid says: Hi,
When I send an attachment, an xls, it shows up fine in the target notebook. When I click to open it there’s a prompt to download and save. I can’t open directly from Springpad. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Sid
Cathy says: I’m trying to email a recipe to myself and have it appear in my “recipes”. In the subject line I put “Almond Cheese Crackers@Recipes” I thought it would go right to my recipes notebook, but it appears as a note and then I don’t see a way of sending it to “recipes”.
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Hi Cathy – So make sure you include a space between the recipe title and the @notebook name. Also make sure the notebook name is written exactly how it appears in Springpad (caps, spaces). It will save as a recipe, but you are right that the info will be added in the notes section of the item. Not ideal, I know, but the idea is that we get the info saved as the right item type and in the right place. Let me know if that doesn’t work!
JP says: I forwarded E-mails with attachments. I see the e-mails in Springpad, not the attachments.
What am I doing wrong?
I see the attachments on the web (PC), but not within the app on my tablet.
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Hi JP – So a link to the attachment should show in the Attachments setting of the emailed-in note. What kind of attachment is it? What kind of tablet are you using?
Hello
I would like to send an email to
My springpad Account
It should be with a date and a reminder
What should the syntax be
Regards
Pepsimax
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Hi Henrik -You can forward an email into springpad with springit@springpadit.com or using your custom email address, which can be found in Settings > Services. If you want to email in something that has a date – like an event – you can use the following formats:
Specific Date: mm/dd, mm/dd/yy , or mm/dd/yyyy
Common-Language Day: i.e. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Upcoming Day of the week: i.e. Tuesday will be the upcoming Tuesday
Time (any of the following examples will work): 3pm, 3:00am, 3:00pm, 15:00
Henrik says: Hello again -I’ve tried this in an email with the type of note 03/05 today 18:00 and this kobination: 03/05 today 18:10. I’ve written this in the body. I get a note but there is no reminder. Regards, Henrik
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Hi Henrik – Right now you cannot set reminders using email. You can set alarms. Have you tried that?
Henrik says: Hello again – It is also an alarm I will make but I can not get it to work. which text should be in body in the subject? could be Note: soda? and what shall then stand if the alarm will be Wednesday at 15.00 -MVH Henrik I hope you understand
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Hi Henrik – Can you try emailing the alarm like this:
Subject: Alarm: Soda
Body: Today 18:10
Michael Tallie says: I like what springpad can do, I can’t wait to start using it!!!
Mark Kaiser says: (1) When I send an email with the header “Bookmark: yadda yadda yadda @Notebook”, it (Result A) classifies correctly as a bookmark, but does not create a hyperlink (as in Source: http://www.website.com that is hyperlinked to the correct site).
However, when I send the email without the “Bookmark: ” prefix, it (Result B) classifies it correctly AND adds the hyperlink, as it should. Why doesn’t the prefix do the same thing as the auto-sort? I would expect the same behavior.
(2) If there’s any additional text before the hyperlink in the email body, then springpad responds as in Result A, no matter what the prefix is in the header. Text after the hyperlink seems to not affect results deterministically either way.
(3) In all scenarios, the @Notebook remains part of the subject line in the springpad note. I would expect that springpad would strip that out of the subject line like it does prefixes.
Please take a look at this to provide more consistency in the user experience.
Thanks!
Mark
Mark Kaiser says: Oh – I’d also like a way to ascribe visibility (public / private) through the email – is that possible?
Thanks!
Mark
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Does my old email address with unique identifier that looks like “springpadit+123456789@springpadit.com” still work or should I delete it from my contacts?
Todd – it should still work. You can confirm the address by Logging in at Springpadit.com, then click on Settings, then Services.
Hi all at Springpad. I’ve not played with all of these cool new features yet but I must say these are awesome. Being able to send emailed content directly to a Notepad is fantastic for a GTD fan. One less step to have to manage
It looks like for tasks we can not give a category. Due Date has been mentioned in this post but category hasn’t.
That’s just bizarre. I only stumbled across this because I was pondering whether to use Springpad as a task manager again and a search for “email tasks” facility revealed this update published just today! Not only that you can attach files as well – I tested it and it works as advertised.
Fantastic stuff, I am moving all of my projects and tasks over to Springpad.
Great.
This new send via email feature is just icing on the cake for such a great service.
One thing I’d like to add, how about notebook assignment, lets say I have a notebook called “Work Stuff”.
It would be cool if I could put a hash tag in the subject line, or at the top of the email, #Work Stuff# and then the email submitted would go into that notebook.
Is this doable?
Travis – just put @notebook or #tag in the subject to assign a notebook or tag to your emailed item.
I have seveal mail accounts. If I find a message on one email account and want to port it over to Springpad..how can I do that?
J – find your custom Springit address on springpadit.com under settings then services.
Ozgur – We have left out task categories because we are planning to merge them with tags.
Update! Now you can set task due dates via email! See the details in the main post above!
After all the great work you do I hate to ask this: but just clicking note or Task in Springpad widget ,or using the share feature seems much faster to me…why would using mail be used?
Thanks!
Tim – using Mail-in is useful if you’re already in your mail client doing other things, forwarding mail, and for iOS users who don’t have a built in Share feature.
Merging categories with tags makes sense, as categories are just a form of fixed tags. I like sorting by category especially when I am in “all my stuff”
Am I able to to send something to multiple notebooks? e.g. @work @this week
Alysson – Yes, you can define as many notebooks as you’d like.
I tried to test the feature of adding a task to a specific notebook via email, but the task only went to My Stuff and not my DAILY PLANNER notebook. Is this feature not working due to the format of my notebook title? The title is all capital letters as shown above, also should there be a space between the two words or should it be typed as one?
Hi Scorpion – you should be able to send to @DAILY PLANNER and it should go in. If not, CC me on another email you try (brittni@springpartners.com) so I can see what’s going wrong.
I’m trying to forward an email to Springpad from my Outlook account at work. I’m registered with Springpad using my gmail address, not my work address. In the Outlook email, I copied & pasted my personal address (the one that looks like “springpadit+123456789@springpadit.com”) into the TO field and put the type, notebook & tags in the SUBJECT field, as instructed in this post. I keep getting the following error message. What am I doing wrong?
“Sorry, we could not find a user with the email address xxx@xxx.gov. Try logging into Springpad to see the email-in address for your springpad account.”
Thanks for your help. I’m new to Springpad & so far I really like it!
Laurie – if you’re sending from the address connected to your Springpad account, just send to springit@springpadit.com
Ramesh –
1. Please send me an email at brittni@springpartners.com to tell me more about how you’re formatting the email (FWD or CC me on an email you try, that would be best)
2. No – currently you cannot update any notes in Springpad via email-in (whether they were initially emailed in or not)
Woo Hoo! Thanks Katin & Springpad! This is great!
I have two issues as of now according to the above post
1. I am not able to send a check list to a note book as advertised
2. Say I have sent a note/task/etc to a notebook via e-mail, is it possible to update that particular note/task/etc via e-mail. Please note that it should not replace an already existing task/notes. Is this feature currently present
Regards,
K.Ramesh Karthik.
Same as Ramesh. Can’t send a checklist. The email just ended up as a note. I tried subject beginning with “CheckList:” and “Checklist” and in both cases wanted the checklist to go to a notebook, so appended @notebookname to the subject line. The note was created in the correct notebook, just not as a checklist.
Great feature!
Sent a mail from gmail.com and my international chars á,é,ö was converted to vé á .. in the checklist items.
How can I avoid this?
Thanks,
Gabriel
converted to: & # 225; & # 223; – (without spaces)
This is awesome! Thank you for adding this feature. You didn’t just add it, you added it RIGHT. This will be a powerful tool.
This is a real cool product. Love it so far.
I do have 1 little problem, using PC or iPhone, I have problem when the email has attachment of Excel files (small one).
I attached 2 small Excel Files and some JPG.
The JPG has no problem. But for the Excel, it is linked to
“http://springpad-user-data.s3.amazonaws.com/0b/0b4557bf-06c6-4598-887e-4d6f84aebdd9/0b3d1b15-611f-4c00-b26d-9639ac79e2db/filenamechanged.xlsx”
When I try to open it, it say on my Firefox
“This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
AccessDeniedAccess Denied6375620CFF244EB72a5uVCHjL72IJRqGQi7p/W7MohWq+BEArWo0V4KFNjnXaZ5RP1ai8558q84/od9Z”Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks in advance for the tips
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I don’t use Springpad for task management although I did give it a try. The lack of sort options made it a bit messy, but as a note taker and reference system it’s replaced Evernote for me. Not only does it loook great but it’s lightning fast on Android. I used to get fed up waiting for Evernote files to load on my mobile and while it’s improved recently it still lags massively behind Springpad.
I’ve found task management to be a breeze with Springpad, you can either use one notebook for all task or keep them in specific ones. For instance I keep all my financial task in my financial notebook. Naturally you can see all tasks together under “All my Stuff”. I love the fact that you can set a sms and email alert for any task that you date! I also like seeing them in the Gmail module of Rainmeter on my desktop, so I won’t overlook them!
I sent a recipe to the springpad email address. It shows up on the Internet site but not in my iPhone app. How do u sync them?
Sandra – try the sync now feature under settings of the iPhone app.
I’ve been using the email feature for Springpad and for the most part think it’s great. I’m finding however that if I am on my laptop and want to send an email to my springpad via my email client, Windows Live Mail, the message that ends up in Springpad is perfect accept it can’t be edited. When I go to the note in springpad and click to edit I receive a message that the note has special formatting and all I can do is add a new note but can’t edit when I emailed into Springpad.
Are others finding this problem?
Can anyone help so I can use this excellent feature?
Hi, i try to save a Springpad using -algo Poemas?- on subject, haven t registered something yet. The body message is -Me miro, yo sone, mas bien vole, imagine una nueva pelicula.-
I m using acute accents in spanish.
What is wrong?
This “email everything” works great from my Droid however I have tested the same feature from my desktop email client, Windows Live Mail, and none of the notes make their way to Springpad. It doesn’t seem to matter whether they are rich text or plain text they never show up in Springpad. I hope someone at Springpad can verify this problem and come up with a resolution. This is a really handy feature that I would like to use to :cc my various springpad notebooks but seems I can only use it if I’m on my smartphone which somewhat limiting.
Works fine, but i have to ask – is there a way how to send through e-mail note to specific existing Task? I can send note only into notebook and then manualy asign it to Task or is there some solution?
Jabbo – sorry, no way to send to a task already in Springpad. The best you could do I guess is to set up a tag from things you want linked together.
Ok, thanx – and i have one another question. I installed Springpad extension for Chrome so i can acces my tasks faster, but i REALLY miss the function for editing text direclty in this extension. Maybe you can add it in next version?
This just doesn’t work for me…I have tried to send multiple times to the address and it seems to go into cyberspace…
edward: what e-mail client do you use? It works for me with Gmail like charm…
I love, love this new feature! Being able to specify which notebook, tags, etc is great! I still use my personal springpad email address though, because sending all emails from the email account that is registered with springpad is not convenient and unrealistic.
Have sent multiple emails from my iphone using my gmail account and none of them have showed up. I tried both the generic springit@springpadit.com and my personal springit+number email address. Nothing shows up.
I too send the email from my iphone. It appears in my springpad online acct but not on springpad iPhone app. I have tried to sync through app settings and still nothing.
@Thom & Sandra
I find the iPhone/iPad app to be delayed when syncing. The have been many times when I’ve added something to the web app, then made sure I manually synced (not sure if that’s grammatically correct) my phone. The new item(s) did not show up for 15-20 minutes. It has taken even longer when emailing a task, though mine have all shown up eventually. (BTW-I use the personal Springpad address exclusively.)
How do I email myself voice notes?
Hi Christian – sorry, no way to email that type of note right now but it’s a great idea!
I have attempted to send an email from my ipad2 to SP while on my browser. They do not show up. I am using the correct address and selecting “Mail Link to this Page” button. What possibilities are happening as to why SP is not receiving it. How long does it typically take to show up in SP? Thanks
Mark – Be sure you are sending email from the email address that’s on your account. If you are still having issues, please cc me on the next email you send so I can figure out what’s going on – katin@springpartners.com
Since I was sending (forwarding) from my work email account, I sent to my personal Springpad email address. I changed the subject line in my forwarded email to create a task in Springpad. It did create the task in the correct notebook with the tag assigned, but the due date just showed up in the description of the Task (I used Tomorrow.) instead of actually assigning the due date.
I will play around with it some more, just wondering if this was a known bug or I was doing something wrong.
Hi. i just tried sending an email to springit@springpadit.com and nothing has happened. how long does it take for the email to enter springpad?
Anne – we had a delay a few hours ago, but it should be fine now. If you’re still having issues, let us know! – feedback@springpartners.com
Same here. Sent an email to springit@springpadit.com about 20 minutes ago; still hasn’t shown up on my springpad account.
Follow up: a second email I sent a few minutes later came through just fine. The first still hasn’t shown up. It had a .PDF attached. Could that be the problem?
Both have arrived now. Just a delay, I guess.
I just tried to email an event and it got posted on springpad. But it doesn’t sync to gcalendar. If I create a new event on website, it shows up on gcalendar. Bug or not supposed to work?
Another thing, when I create an event from an email, timezone doesn’t work. I have it configured on settings as GMT:00 but the event shows up at GMT:+5
Matos – The time zone issue is a bug we’re working on fixing! Sorry for the trouble.
Are you still having trouble syncing?
I sent a note through email and had @Notebook Name at the end of the subject, but the email appeared under all my stuff and not in the notebook named “Notebook Name”. Do I need to enclose it in quotes?
Vishal – no quotes required. Be sure the notebook name was capitalized & spelled properly. If you’re still having trouble, try again & cc katin@springpartners.com so I can see what went wrong.
Just started using Springpad and it is everything I wanted in a note and data organizer. Very cool app.
Two things that could be improved:
1. Add a “Document” category. Sometimes people will want to save an item as a document and not just as a note.
2. When adding a scanned bar-code allow a choice to save it as the user chooses.
We use barcodes at my work and when I scanned my personal badge it automtically comes up as a consumer product and doesn’t give me the choice to save it as my personal ID badge.
Whenever I send a checklist via email, only a few of the items become part of the checklist. The rest are listed as a note below the checklist. How can I correct this?
Patrick – be sure you do no put any line breaks in the list when you email it in. If you are still having trouble, please send another email & cc me so I can check it out – katin@springpartners.com
@katin: I just tried one more time, by sending a test event from email. Got the event created on Spad just fine, but again not showing on google calendar.
This was the subject line used:
Event: evento criado no email 07/28 3pm
If I had this working correctly it would be great, because I could use the reminders of gcal on my android phone.
Besides, the android app doesn’t have the event option on Add by Type, so I can’t use that either to create an event to sync with gcal.
Any reason why event is not on android app?
How long does this email function take? I send an email and nothing happens.
Mark – saving something from email should take a matter of minutes (but up to an hour, based on traffic). If you are having an issue, send us a note with your username to feedback@springpartners.com.
I’m trying to email in an alarm, and no matter what format I send the date and time in, its sets the reminder to the time the mail arrives in SpringPad. I’ve tried putting it in the subject as well as including it as the first line in the body but they both aren’t working? The format of the date/time I am trying to use is:
08/11/2011 at 1pm
Any ideas?
Hi Darren – that’s very odd – could you email me at brittni@springpartners.com and maybe even CC me on a test email you try? Thanks!
Works great – with some occasional delay – here.
Would it be possible to edit an event via email. Change date/time or other?
Core – Glad it’s working well for you! Editing via email isn’t currently possible – neat idea, though.
not only is it really slow, its also really unintuitive.
frankly its easier just to send myself an email.
i’m sorry Springpad, but you didn’t ‘get me’ and I don’t ‘get you’. I’m afraid we’ll have to part ways now.
Nicholas – So sorry we’ve let you down
I am having a problem creating events when forwarding messages.
I did the following test: In a blank email, I input the date – 9/23 – and the time – 3pm. This email created an event on September 23 at 3pm fine.
When I forwarded a previous message with the same instructions (9/23 3pm) the event was not created correctly. It was created as “today”.
what is happening?
Hey Fernando – has to do with hidden things that the fwd email is including in it, which confuses our email server when it tries to pick out the date. Try putting the date/time in the subject line.
Anyone know how to copy and paste the whole notebook? Thank you!
Mina – sorry, now way to do this right now.
Have tried to e-mail notes to myself multiple times, but to no avail. Is this feature working properly?
Andreas – sorry about that, should be working! Could you CC me on another email you try so I can make sure everything looks ok? brittni@springpartners.com
I forwarded two emails from the email I used to register Springpad to the springit email address but the attachments (word document or PDF) never show up on my iPhone app and the body of the note is blank. All I see on my iPhone is the title of the email. I’m using an iPhone 3GS with os 4.3.5 (8L1).
Hi. i just tried sending an email to springit@springpadit.com and nothing has happened. how long does it take for the email to enter springpad?
Hi Marc – it shouldn’t take more than 20 mins to go through our queue and be processed, but if it’s taking longer please email at feedback@springpartners.com and let us know when you sent the email and what your username is!
I installed Springpad (Android app)earlier this week on my Samsung Galaxy 10.1. I have been trying to send a file created in Docs to Go (size 11k)to myself. The note is created, with the name of the file as the subject of the note, but the file itself does not show up as an attachment. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Jonathan – if you’re using the Share feature to send to Springpad it does not support attachments right now. Sorry for the confusion.
I’m still confused. I don’t think I am using the Share feature. I e-mailed the file as an attachment, both from my registered address to springit@springpadit.com and from another address to my assigned Springpad e-mail address. In both cases, Springpad created the note but without the file attached. I understood from the instructions above that the file should appear as an attachment to the note that gets created that way in Springpad. If that is not supported at this time, that strikes me as a pretty big gap in how you can get content into Springpad.
Hi Jonathan – you’re right, the file should be there. If it’s not, please CC me on another email with file attachment attempt at brittni@springpartners.com
Check list from email seems not to work
Houn – make sure you’re formatting the subject line exactly how it is in this post.
If you’re still having trouble please send me an email at brittni@springpartners.com
email brittni@springpartners.com, got no reply.
Is it possible to craft an email to add an Attachment to an existing note or task?
dimuthu – That’s a great idea, but not something that’s currently possible. The closest we get is allowing you to send in an email with an attachment & add it to a specific notebook. If this is a feature that you would really like to see added, I suggest adding it to our user forum at http://getsatisfaction.com/springpartners to drum up support from other users!
I have already mailed the springpad authorities around 3 months back informing that there is no provision in springpad for knowing the date on which we made the note and the change still has not been implemented
I fail to see the value add. The time and clicks for me to send a specially crafted email will take the same or more effort than jumping on my computer or Android phone
Hey Stacy –
Many users find that saving via email is helpful when they want to forward in something they’ve received via email, like a flight itinerary or a receipt for an online purchase.
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Would it be feasible to let us set up our own custom email addresses. The only times I need the custom address are the times when I don’t have access to my contact list, and springit+?????????@springpadit.com isn’t really memorable. If we could replace the random nine-digit number with our userID, or a string we choose, the personal email address would be a lot more useful.
tried email with task and notebook identified. ended up in all my stuff. tried with and without quotes
Hi Allan – That is frustrating – sorry for the trouble! Just to confirm, you are putting the task name and notebook name in the Subject in the following format: Task: Task Name @Notebook Name. If you enter the notebook title incorrectly, it will not add to any notebook and go into My Stuff. For example, if my notebook is called “My First Notebook” and I type it in as @myfirstnotebook (without the spaces) it will not add to the notebook. Let me know if that helps or if the problem persists: dbramhall@springpartners.com
Why sprigpad not downloading attachments from email in proper type? Even PDF..? just shown some file, no type.. may be i do something wrong? help please!
Hi Madina – I’m sorry you are having trouble! You are emailing in files as attachments, is that correct? What happens when you download the files? What do they download as?
Yes, correct. Emailing files as attachments, PDF files. and after downloading they download as just file, no type, i have to choose a program to open..
2nd question: is there any limit for email’s size to send to springpad?
And last: why springpad not opening office files, like xls, didn’t check *doc though.. but it will be nice, if office files will open too, for example in googledoc app
Thanks for response!
Hi Madina – The file size limit (per file) is 5MB. Can you please clarify your problem with xls documents? Are you having trouble uploading them to Springpad?
Yes, xls file is simply not opening from springpad.. what about PDF from eMail?
Hi, I have problem with characters in emails (unicode). On note list every national char is in unicode format for example char polish l (l with line) is (ampersand hash 322 and
. I can edit this note, save and everything is OK, but this is crazy 
Hi Devon – Is this happening when you email notes to yourself?
Is there a way to add a few more lines to an email when I create a task so that an alarm is also generated for that task?
Hi Devin, yes. From my account to springit@springpadit.com. I’m sending mails from gmail.
Devin, here are screenshots:
Note list (strange chars) – http://efocus.pl/sp1.jpg
Note edit (everything OK)- http://efocus.pl/sp2.jpg
I tried with different code page under gmail settings (ISO-8859-2 and UTF-8) but without results.
Ok Devon, thank you for that. I see the problem you are having. If you look at the note in the detail view you see the code, but when you are in the note you see the correct characters, right?
Back on the 17th I tried the “send to Springpad via email” technique and I got nothing in Springpad, no error email, nothing. I sent the email to my universal address, springit+?????????@springpadit.com *my number instead of question marks, of course).
How can I find out what went wrong?
Thanks.
Well, that’s interesting. I checked on my PC and there’s an item created and now that I’ve done that, it’s showing up on my Android?! I’ll have to try this again and see what happens.
Springpad took my email and created an item (joeellett | jan 17 at 9:03pm) with the body of my email in an attachment. Since I used a subject of “Check List: To-Do” I expected the email body to be in some sort of check list format. The note is titled “To-Do” as expected, but the email body isn’t in check list format or even in simple notes format; it’s in an attachment. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
Hi Joee – So the email was saved in Springpad as a note? Was there anything in the body of the email (like a signature)? What email client were you using to email the checklist? Can you please email details to dbramhall@springpartners.com? Thanks!
Devin: Yes, exactly. Thanks for support.
Okay, this is a known improvement we need to make with unicode characters. THey don’t always translate well. Thanks for chiming in on this – we’re working on it
So far, your app has been difficult to use. Cannot consistently cut and paste notes, save pics, and lastly, somehow cannot email/share to my wife. With no clear instructions, one has to stumble around in your app, and hope buttons, choices, options appear that are useful and most importantly, WORK! Sorta useless if we have to jump through hoops when we can cut and paste, email the old way. Was hoping your app would allow collating things along with staying within your app to share, but…. you guys exercise waayyyy too much control without recognizing what you wanted to achieve in the first place. Or was the control thing more desireable? I don’t mind cloud computing, but seriously, isn’t the point to make things easier?
Like the very substance that all electronic devices rely on(electrons), I’ll find an easier path.
Not yours.
Hi Tom – I’m sorry to hear that you are frustrated with our app. We do our best to make it easy to navigate, and appreciate hearing constructive feedback about ways that we can make your experience better. It sounds like you’re at the end of your rope already, but if you have a specific problem you’d like to report, feel free to email it to me directly, so we can look into it: devin@springpartners.com. Thanks, and sorry!
re: Date Settings
I have just started using Springpad and am currently setting it up for my use. Being European I am used to expressing dates in the format dd/mm/yy. It appears that Springpad does not allow date formats to be altered?
How do I set Springpad to express dates in format dd/mm/yy?
Thanks.
Hi Ewan – Don’t have that yet, sorry!
Just started using your app, and found what Ewan Mathieson missing as well. I’d be great if I could set my own formattings for stuff like dates (possibly also custom decimal points and prices in the future, who knows
).
Thanks for such a great system!
Hi,
When I send an attachment, an xls, it shows up fine in the target notebook. When I click to open it there’s a prompt to download and save. I can’t open directly from Springpad. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Sid
Hi Sid – Sorry, right now you cannot opent he xls in Springpad – have to download it.
I’m trying to email a recipe to myself and have it appear in my “recipes”. In the subject line I put “Almond Cheese Crackers@Recipes” I thought it would go right to my recipes notebook, but it appears as a note and then I don’t see a way of sending it to “recipes”.
Hi Cathy – So make sure you include a space between the recipe title and the @notebook name. Also make sure the notebook name is written exactly how it appears in Springpad (caps, spaces). It will save as a recipe, but you are right that the info will be added in the notes section of the item. Not ideal, I know, but the idea is that we get the info saved as the right item type and in the right place. Let me know if that doesn’t work!
I forwarded E-mails with attachments. I see the e-mails in Springpad, not the attachments.
What am I doing wrong?
I see the attachments on the web (PC), but not within the app on my tablet.
Hi JP – So a link to the attachment should show in the Attachments setting of the emailed-in note. What kind of attachment is it? What kind of tablet are you using?
Hello
I would like to send an email to
My springpad Account
It should be with a date and a reminder
What should the syntax be
Regards
Pepsimax
Hi Henrik -You can forward an email into springpad with springit@springpadit.com or using your custom email address, which can be found in Settings > Services. If you want to email in something that has a date – like an event – you can use the following formats:
Specific Date: mm/dd, mm/dd/yy , or mm/dd/yyyy
Common-Language Day: i.e. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Upcoming Day of the week: i.e. Tuesday will be the upcoming Tuesday
Time (any of the following examples will work): 3pm, 3:00am, 3:00pm, 15:00
Hello again -I’ve tried this in an email with the type of note 03/05 today 18:00 and this kobination: 03/05 today 18:10. I’ve written this in the body. I get a note but there is no reminder. Regards, Henrik
Hi Henrik – Right now you cannot set reminders using email. You can set alarms. Have you tried that?
Hello again – It is also an alarm I will make but I can not get it to work. which text should be in body in the subject? could be Note: soda? and what shall then stand if the alarm will be Wednesday at 15.00 -MVH Henrik I hope you understand
Hi Henrik – Can you try emailing the alarm like this:
Subject: Alarm: Soda
Body: Today 18:10
I like what springpad can do, I can’t wait to start using it!!!
(1) When I send an email with the header “Bookmark: yadda yadda yadda @Notebook”, it (Result A) classifies correctly as a bookmark, but does not create a hyperlink (as in Source: http://www.website.com that is hyperlinked to the correct site).
However, when I send the email without the “Bookmark: ” prefix, it (Result B) classifies it correctly AND adds the hyperlink, as it should. Why doesn’t the prefix do the same thing as the auto-sort? I would expect the same behavior.
(2) If there’s any additional text before the hyperlink in the email body, then springpad responds as in Result A, no matter what the prefix is in the header. Text after the hyperlink seems to not affect results deterministically either way.
(3) In all scenarios, the @Notebook remains part of the subject line in the springpad note. I would expect that springpad would strip that out of the subject line like it does prefixes.
Please take a look at this to provide more consistency in the user experience.
Thanks!
Mark
Oh – I’d also like a way to ascribe visibility (public / private) through the email – is that possible?
Thanks!
Mark