The New Springpad Makes It Fun and Easy to Share
We’re excited to announce a major update to Springpad! The new Springpad is all about helping you save, share and discover things that are important to you with the people you trust.
With today’s updates to the web app, the iPhone and iPad apps, and the Android app, you’ll experience an all new Springpad.
Log in to Springpad now to check it out for yourself!
What’s New!
Today’s updates include a visual redesign and brand new collaboration features. We’ve simplified the interface, elevated the visual components, and made it much easier to save new things to Springpad. The new design also adds to the usefulness of collaboration, with a simple way to add new contributors to any notebook and a consolidated view of recent additions and changes from all contributors.
- It’s all new! That’s right, we’ve totally rethought, redesigned and refreshed Springpad! The only way to say it is that it’s just prettier. We mean it, it’s friggin’ beautiful. Check it out for yourself!
- It’s all about the notebook – We’ve made notebooks customizable, sharable, and just plain awesome! Now, all of your settings are controlled at the notebook level. So, once you create a notebook, you can control its design, its privacy settings, and who has access to add and edit its contents.
- Simplified saving – We’ve removed the number of steps it takes to add something new to a notebook. Use the new add bar to type in a note or task that you want to save, paste in a URL that you want to save, or type in a search term for something you want to save – like a movie or book name. Learn more about saving new things to Springpad.
- Follow notebooks from your friends – Friends Stuff has been replaced with a new Following section, where you can choose to follow specific notebooks from people you trust, then spring something for yourself.
- Explore Springpad for new ideas – If you’re looking for some inspiration, check out public notebooks from the Springpad community in the new Explore section.
Check Out the New Look
We’re excited to introduce you to the new look of Springpad.
More About Collaboration
Want to put together a family chore list, or a group wish list? What about working with your friends on a list of great brunch spots, or a killer list of books to read? Well, now you can do it!
Springpad notebooks are the very best way to share sets of information with your friends and family, and with the new capability to add contributors to your notebooks, you no longer have to do it alone! Public or private, you can work on your notebooks with the people you trust. Learn more about sharing your Springpad notebooks.
Other Improvements & Changes
This update also includes a number of improvements, all focused on simplifying your Springpad experience.
- Simplified sharing settings - Now all sharing is done at the notebook level. So, if a notebook is public, all of its contents, and all of their attachments are public. Likewise, if a notebook is private, then it’s for your eyes only. Learn more about making your notebooks public.
- Jump right in! You may have noticed that our new homepage is the Springpad Explore section. So, new users can check it out before they sign up!
- Chrome App no longer available offline - As a part of this update, we have removed the offline capabilities of the Springpad Chrome app.
- New media notes - Save files and photos from the web app. Just open up a notebook and drag in any file from your desktop. (Chrome browser only)
- Task categories removed – To simplify your experiece, we’ve removed categories and replace them with tags.
- Shopping & Packing lists removed – We’ve changed all of your checklists into, well, checklists!
- Renamed Flags – We’ve replaced “Flag” with “Like,” so keep an eye out for the little red heart! It works the same, it’s just cuter!
- Comment on any public item - We’ve replaced attached notes with comments.
- Simpler URL’s – You may notice that the URL structure has changed a bit – all in the name of clarity and simplicity!
- And lots more…
This is just the beginning!
We’ll be spending the coming days, weeks, and months continuing to improve your Springpad experience. So let us know what you think, and keep an eye out for ongoing updates!
34 Responses to “The New Springpad Makes It Fun and Easy to Share”
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thebabycub says: “Chrome App no longer available offline”
Not a positive move. We are not all always connected but still need to reach our data. I hope you will have an alternative soon.
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mira says:
i think i’m dropping out. gotta switch to evernote as offline support is the only reason i moved from opera to chrome. well, it’s a standalone app but well if i’m out of wifi zone and suddenly a great idea came to my mind?
now it’s all gone.
why?
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Doug says:
I totally second this! If Springpad hadn’t offered offline capability like Evernote does, then I would have just stayed with Evernote. I hope you reconsider this this change. I like Springpad & use it everyday. The offline app helped me a ton! Thanks for all the work!
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Offline access is the number one reason I ever started using Springpad instead of Evernote. I hope removing this from the Chrome app is not an indication that you will also start removing this from the mobile apps, because if that happens I will switch to another service.
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Lakshman says:
Offline support is a must! And the chrome app wasn’t real offline support anyway. I found it unreliable, and I’m not surprised they pull the support.
Waiting for a real offline app for both Mac?iPhone and iPad!!!
Evernote for now…
Phil says: So far not impressed with the new design. I just started using Springpad, but it seems the previous HTML version was much lighter and more efficient for actual note-taking and task management. The new version requires multiple page loads, I have to click multiple buttons every time I navigate away just to sort by rating, hide completed, and show list — I should be able to save that as a default view.
I am also disappointed that you dropped offline support.
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oran says:
i agree!!!
Mario Filipe says: Hello.
I like the look, but I lost information so I’m really not happy about it.
I had tasks and notes with comments and media (files, links, etc) on them and now they are empty.
Really hope you can fix this!
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Problem fixed.
Thank you very very much!
JFeathersmith says: I mostly use the web clipper to add items. And it is certainly pretty . . .
But please, please, PLEASE bring back the ability of the tool to tell me if I have ALREADY clipped something! I really, really miss that. I hate having duplicate items.
I’d also appreciate being able to add things to multiple notebooks from the web clipper interface.
Unfortunately, I really hate the new interface for accessing my notebooks. The new icons are ENORMOUS, so instead of being able to see all my notebooks on one screen, I can only see 4 at a time. This is ridiculous!
I’m sorry, but I think the graphic design of the new Springpad is full of fail, because it uses space really, really poorly, the giant notebook icons being one example:
I don’t need a massive header telling me my username or My Notebooks in GIANT FONT.
The new menu bars, once I’m looking inside a notebook, take up too much room. There’s no reason for the header with the notebook name to be that big, and no reason for the space between that title section and the list of items to be so big, either. The font for Edit, Filter, etc is small, it doesn’t need to take up so much vertical space.
I want to see my bookmarks and notes! Not a bunch of headers!
Lastly, I really hate how I can’t use the Page Up, Page Down buttons to navigate a list of items.
I’m really glad I backed all my stuff up two days ago, because this is just way too unpleasant for accessing my data.
david Conradt says: So far I have no clue how to make anything work. I guess the notebook covers are customizable, but I don’t see how. The fonts in many cases are hard to read. Possibly because my laptop is somewhat old and still using Windows XP. Using Google Chrome, but can’t find instructions for anything.
I did not do much better on my Android phone either.
Nevio says: When I want to create new notebook I get the message:
“Whoops, this page doesn’t exist!
Return to Springpad to look for something else. ”
How to delete notebook?
Less says: Page Up and Page Down don’t work, on a site that has made all of the visual elements taller, and thus requires FAR more vertical scrolling than it did before. This MASSIVE annoyance will outweigh any enhanced features and funtionality. I don’t care how awesome it is to spring and share – if it’s WAY more annoying and difficult to use, I will simply not use it.
Svein says: This new design sucks, iPad app crashes most of the time, doesn’t show notebooks and crome version is hopeless on small screens due to gigantic icons and lots of unused space everywhere.
What happened….?
mj says: I would love to make a back up of my data so I can take it some where else. I just can’t find ANYTHING in the new layout, not mention I can’t see ALL of my notebooks. I have like 20 notebooks which are enormous!
I have a pinterest account and I don’t need one here, too.
Please for the love of all that is good, LET ME BACK UP MY DATA!
Please, I beg you, return the possibility to share notes at the note level. I think it’s great that notebooks are shareable, but I almost never want to share an entire notebook with someone. I share notes on this or notes on that. Now I have to share the whole notebook (which requires me to re-organize my notebooks!) and then tell them which particular note to check out. I haven’t tried just copying and pasting a particular note URL, but how inelegant, compared with the simple and beautiful note sharing you had before!
I’m not one of those people who bitches anytime something new happens. I love change and I think the new interface has some great things. I LOVE the drag and drop. It seems easier to understand in some ways. But I do agree with most of what JFeathersmith said above. On a practical user level, a lot of the new design is a huge pain in the butt. And I really hate to say that because I know how excited you are about it and how hard you must have worked on it.
Thanks for all the work. Seriously. Please keep working! Bring us back some awesome stuff you took away (everything on Feathersmith’s list) and maintain the best of the new design! Please please do this. I don’t want to have to go back to Evernote.
BTW, I paid Evernote $49 for a year of Premium service. I would gladly pay Springpad $50 a year if it would help you move forward even more aggressively on the product, giving us a desktop client (offline syncing is just vital! You can’t get rid of that!) and attending to the above. I want you guys to win!!
I need to take back my request to still have note-level sharing, I found it! Super glad this is still available.
Sidnei says: A important features that is missing now is the offline support. You need to include this feature again.
Paul says: The New Springpad is the best thing on the internet right now! I was a huge fan of your innovations and the way you focus and improve the mission you had in mind, it’s really helping a lot and just perfectly does what it promisses + supports in a very real and important need. But with the new design, I can just say one thing: big love! I think you make the best UX & UI decisions possible within the ‘problem-space’. keep it up, hope you can ignore the haters who don’t get it. for every whining post, there’s probably 10k really happy users. as everybody knows mostly negative thoughts make it online, unfortunately.
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other Paul says:
I hate the ENORMOUS big icons (notebooks) and GIANT FONTS!
Please change them or let us shrink them! This annoyance could cause me (and likely others) to abandon your App, and that would be a shame!
Lee says: This product was destroyed by this downgrade. I am now scanning the Play Store for a replacement. I had used Evernote, my fallback is to use it again.
James Araali-Kabyanga says: “Chrome App no longer available offline” – which genius came up with that idea?
Please can you restore this asap.
Shaheer says: I don’t mind the bulgy icons on the site (since I made them small via the toggle anyway) – but what I do seem to have trouble is in the Android app: ever since the update, the app force-closes when launching. I’ve cleared the cache, the data, even uninstalled and reinstalled the app – but in vain.
Why it’s happening, I have no idea. I’m using a customized Cyanogenmod 7 version (a nightly update – although that shouldn’t make a huge difference, since it’s a Gingerbread spin-off).
I don’t want to move back to Catch for various reasons (one of them being the inability to copy/paste in a jiffy from one service to another, and other things found lacking in Catch) but… :/
Hans-Henrik Hansen says: Hi
For the next update, I miss the option to choose a cool pix as general backround, either from FlickR or give me the option to use my own pictures? right now it is only grey boring matter… 
Shawn says: Hi
For the next update, try to include more color options & background images for the notepad. Also, give options to move notepads where ever I want within my notebook than just fixed in the same position.
Angel Alonso says: One pretty simple suggestion (I guess and hope)
Have you thought of having a link to the “classic web app” on your website’s version for smartphones?
Some Android gadgets cannot run your android app(don’t ask me why), but they have a very capable webbrowser.
I am not one of those users threatening with jumping back to evernote if you don’t listen to my crying, but being inevitably redirected to the app download is a pity when a simple link would do.
Thanks in advance, whatever you decide!
BTW, I just realized I had posted the same suggestion on the webapp 3.0 Post…
tim says: In this new UI i don’t know how to add new note.
Why you change it ?
Old was much much much much much much mucher better.
Ugleeee. What happened to my pretty little snowscene? (I can still get it from the Firefox plugin, but how long before you change that too?)
Why do companies always feel the need to “freshen” their look when it was perfectly good as it was?
No more offline support?
Which genius came up with that idea?
Who can afford roaming fees?
Please consider to bring this feature back ASAP!
Is there a way to move all my notebooks and notes to evernote, memonic or so?
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katin says:
Andy – Just to clarify, there is no longer offline support via the Chrome browser on your computer. The app still works in offline mode via your mobile device.
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There is a difference between 3.5″, 4.3″ and 15.4″. Storage on my mobile is limited.
Was that what you wanted to know?
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Ethan says: Switching services because of removed offline support
cool says: New subscriber.
Springpad Offline on Chrome or better still Windows desktop is the deal maker or breaker as far as I am concerned !!
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Devin says:
@cool Try this user-developed app for Chrome that has offline support: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/organizeme/fepmgenffldpcaolcmmjnmdjeaabajlg
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“Chrome App no longer available offline”
Not a positive move. We are not all always connected but still need to reach our data. I hope you will have an alternative soon.
i think i’m dropping out. gotta switch to evernote as offline support is the only reason i moved from opera to chrome. well, it’s a standalone app but well if i’m out of wifi zone and suddenly a great idea came to my mind?
now it’s all gone.
why?
I totally second this! If Springpad hadn’t offered offline capability like Evernote does, then I would have just stayed with Evernote. I hope you reconsider this this change. I like Springpad & use it everyday. The offline app helped me a ton! Thanks for all the work!
Offline access is the number one reason I ever started using Springpad instead of Evernote. I hope removing this from the Chrome app is not an indication that you will also start removing this from the mobile apps, because if that happens I will switch to another service.
Offline support is a must! And the chrome app wasn’t real offline support anyway. I found it unreliable, and I’m not surprised they pull the support.
Waiting for a real offline app for both Mac?iPhone and iPad!!!
Evernote for now…
So far not impressed with the new design. I just started using Springpad, but it seems the previous HTML version was much lighter and more efficient for actual note-taking and task management. The new version requires multiple page loads, I have to click multiple buttons every time I navigate away just to sort by rating, hide completed, and show list — I should be able to save that as a default view.
I am also disappointed that you dropped offline support.
i agree!!!
Hello.
I like the look, but I lost information so I’m really not happy about it.
I had tasks and notes with comments and media (files, links, etc) on them and now they are empty.
Really hope you can fix this!
Problem fixed.
Thank you very very much!
I mostly use the web clipper to add items. And it is certainly pretty . . .
But please, please, PLEASE bring back the ability of the tool to tell me if I have ALREADY clipped something! I really, really miss that. I hate having duplicate items.
I’d also appreciate being able to add things to multiple notebooks from the web clipper interface.
Unfortunately, I really hate the new interface for accessing my notebooks. The new icons are ENORMOUS, so instead of being able to see all my notebooks on one screen, I can only see 4 at a time. This is ridiculous!
I’m sorry, but I think the graphic design of the new Springpad is full of fail, because it uses space really, really poorly, the giant notebook icons being one example:
I don’t need a massive header telling me my username or My Notebooks in GIANT FONT.
The new menu bars, once I’m looking inside a notebook, take up too much room. There’s no reason for the header with the notebook name to be that big, and no reason for the space between that title section and the list of items to be so big, either. The font for Edit, Filter, etc is small, it doesn’t need to take up so much vertical space.
I want to see my bookmarks and notes! Not a bunch of headers!
Lastly, I really hate how I can’t use the Page Up, Page Down buttons to navigate a list of items.
I’m really glad I backed all my stuff up two days ago, because this is just way too unpleasant for accessing my data.
So far I have no clue how to make anything work. I guess the notebook covers are customizable, but I don’t see how. The fonts in many cases are hard to read. Possibly because my laptop is somewhat old and still using Windows XP. Using Google Chrome, but can’t find instructions for anything.
I did not do much better on my Android phone either.
When I want to create new notebook I get the message:
“Whoops, this page doesn’t exist!
Return to Springpad to look for something else. ”
How to delete notebook?
Page Up and Page Down don’t work, on a site that has made all of the visual elements taller, and thus requires FAR more vertical scrolling than it did before. This MASSIVE annoyance will outweigh any enhanced features and funtionality. I don’t care how awesome it is to spring and share – if it’s WAY more annoying and difficult to use, I will simply not use it.
This new design sucks, iPad app crashes most of the time, doesn’t show notebooks and crome version is hopeless on small screens due to gigantic icons and lots of unused space everywhere.
What happened….?
I would love to make a back up of my data so I can take it some where else. I just can’t find ANYTHING in the new layout, not mention I can’t see ALL of my notebooks. I have like 20 notebooks which are enormous!
I have a pinterest account and I don’t need one here, too.
Please for the love of all that is good, LET ME BACK UP MY DATA!
Please, I beg you, return the possibility to share notes at the note level. I think it’s great that notebooks are shareable, but I almost never want to share an entire notebook with someone. I share notes on this or notes on that. Now I have to share the whole notebook (which requires me to re-organize my notebooks!) and then tell them which particular note to check out. I haven’t tried just copying and pasting a particular note URL, but how inelegant, compared with the simple and beautiful note sharing you had before!
I’m not one of those people who bitches anytime something new happens. I love change and I think the new interface has some great things. I LOVE the drag and drop. It seems easier to understand in some ways. But I do agree with most of what JFeathersmith said above. On a practical user level, a lot of the new design is a huge pain in the butt. And I really hate to say that because I know how excited you are about it and how hard you must have worked on it.
Thanks for all the work. Seriously. Please keep working! Bring us back some awesome stuff you took away (everything on Feathersmith’s list) and maintain the best of the new design! Please please do this. I don’t want to have to go back to Evernote.
BTW, I paid Evernote $49 for a year of Premium service. I would gladly pay Springpad $50 a year if it would help you move forward even more aggressively on the product, giving us a desktop client (offline syncing is just vital! You can’t get rid of that!) and attending to the above. I want you guys to win!!
I need to take back my request to still have note-level sharing, I found it! Super glad this is still available.
A important features that is missing now is the offline support. You need to include this feature again.
The New Springpad is the best thing on the internet right now! I was a huge fan of your innovations and the way you focus and improve the mission you had in mind, it’s really helping a lot and just perfectly does what it promisses + supports in a very real and important need. But with the new design, I can just say one thing: big love! I think you make the best UX & UI decisions possible within the ‘problem-space’. keep it up, hope you can ignore the haters who don’t get it. for every whining post, there’s probably 10k really happy users. as everybody knows mostly negative thoughts make it online, unfortunately.
I hate the ENORMOUS big icons (notebooks) and GIANT FONTS!
Please change them or let us shrink them! This annoyance could cause me (and likely others) to abandon your App, and that would be a shame!
This product was destroyed by this downgrade. I am now scanning the Play Store for a replacement. I had used Evernote, my fallback is to use it again.
“Chrome App no longer available offline” – which genius came up with that idea?
Please can you restore this asap.
I don’t mind the bulgy icons on the site (since I made them small via the toggle anyway) – but what I do seem to have trouble is in the Android app: ever since the update, the app force-closes when launching. I’ve cleared the cache, the data, even uninstalled and reinstalled the app – but in vain.
Why it’s happening, I have no idea. I’m using a customized Cyanogenmod 7 version (a nightly update – although that shouldn’t make a huge difference, since it’s a Gingerbread spin-off).
I don’t want to move back to Catch for various reasons (one of them being the inability to copy/paste in a jiffy from one service to another, and other things found lacking in Catch) but… :/
Hi
For the next update, I miss the option to choose a cool pix as general backround, either from FlickR or give me the option to use my own pictures? right now it is only grey boring matter…
Hi
For the next update, try to include more color options & background images for the notepad. Also, give options to move notepads where ever I want within my notebook than just fixed in the same position.
One pretty simple suggestion (I guess and hope)
Have you thought of having a link to the “classic web app” on your website’s version for smartphones?
Some Android gadgets cannot run your android app(don’t ask me why), but they have a very capable webbrowser.
I am not one of those users threatening with jumping back to evernote if you don’t listen to my crying, but being inevitably redirected to the app download is a pity when a simple link would do.
Thanks in advance, whatever you decide!
BTW, I just realized I had posted the same suggestion on the webapp 3.0 Post…
In this new UI i don’t know how to add new note.
Why you change it ?
Old was much much much much much much mucher better.
Ugleeee. What happened to my pretty little snowscene? (I can still get it from the Firefox plugin, but how long before you change that too?)
Why do companies always feel the need to “freshen” their look when it was perfectly good as it was?
No more offline support?
Which genius came up with that idea?
Who can afford roaming fees?
Please consider to bring this feature back ASAP!
Is there a way to move all my notebooks and notes to evernote, memonic or so?
Andy – Just to clarify, there is no longer offline support via the Chrome browser on your computer. The app still works in offline mode via your mobile device.
There is a difference between 3.5″, 4.3″ and 15.4″. Storage on my mobile is limited.
Was that what you wanted to know?
Switching services because of removed offline support
New subscriber.
Springpad Offline on Chrome or better still Windows desktop is the deal maker or breaker as far as I am concerned !!
@cool Try this user-developed app for Chrome that has offline support: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/organizeme/fepmgenffldpcaolcmmjnmdjeaabajlg