Use the Board to visually organize the contents of your Springpad notebooks!
We have just (re)introduced the Board in Springpad! The newly overhauled board will now work reliably in all supported browsers, has a larger work area, and can be used in collaborative notebooks!
The board view allows you to visually organize your notebook’s contents with drag & drop. Every notebook in Springpad has its own board to help you get organized in a focused and fun way on the web app, iPad app and Android tablets.
How it works:
- On the web: To access the board view, open one of your notebooks and select the right-most view option at the top of the page. You can drag the board around in your browser window, giving you lots of room to play with! Indicators point you to contents that are off screen so they won’t get lost.
- On your tablet: The board view is accessible in the left-hand menu of your notebooks on the iPad app and Android tablets. When you add items to the board on the iPad app or Android app on your tablet, the arrangement of your items will sync between the apps and Springpad.com.
- If you are collaborating on a notebook with friends, they can also view and modify the content and arrangement of the board’s contents.
- The board view can be used for both public and private notebooks!
There are lots of great ways to use the board: organize your party plans, an upcoming trip or just your daily errands. You can also layout photos, links and products related to a decorating or design project. Try adding labels to separate the things on the board to create a weekly meal plan or to put things into organized “piles.” Add a map to the board to allow you to see your location-based items, like restaurants and museums!
Give it try & let us know how you like it!
14 Responses to “Use the Board to visually organize the contents of your Springpad notebooks!”
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Lisa-Marie says: Cool to have it back. A few comments:
- it is to possible to add same note twice. Say i have a week plan and i want to have the same finner twice a week. Not possible unless i duplicate recipie
- the pictures are huge… For a full week plan it is very hard to fit in on The board. I like the old example better for meal planner. The fit board function on iPad is Nice… Could og find it on desktop?
- How about having more than 1 board per notebook. Say i have a menu 1,2,3 etc on a cookbook notebook.
- How about some calendar functionality?? So if i do use this for meal planning i could setup several week menues and add the to a month. I would love a widget on my phone to tell med todays plans. Maybe even be possible to schedule the shopping list on a date?
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katin says:
Thanks for your input, Lisa-Marie! We’re not planning many major changes to the board right now, but we’ll keep these things in mind. As far as fitting more things on the board, you can toggle the view of items to be square or compact. You can also drag the board around on the web to place thing off screen – give it a shot & let us know how it goes!
Very welcome back this feature =)
Only a comment:
The first time (since it was reintroduced) I accessed the board I didn’t noticed it was working… why? Because there’s no background for the board, it’s the same of the notebook… it would be cool there were some backgrounds to choose, or at least have a diferent background for it… a cork background would be very cool =)
Keep the good work 
I’d also love a way to zoom in or out– so if I have a large board, I can zoom out to see the whole thing, and then zoom in on the area I want to see close-up.
KC says: Is this feature available on the iPhone?
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Devin says:
Yes!
I like really like the Board! Especially the map aspect. That’s a feature I’ve been wanting for quite a while. It will be useful when it makes it to the iphone. I have a few lists of restaurants, coffee shops, etc; and when I’m looking for somewhere close to go, It’ll be great to see them all on a map. Much easier than reading them all trying to figure out which one is closer, etc.
Ron says: You’ve brought back one of the main features that attracted me to Springpad in the first place. And better than ever. Thank you. BTW to an earlier post… the background of the board changes if you click on “add a category & tags” and then change the theme.
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Hi Ron,
Sorry to say this, but you’re wrong. The background of the board is the same of the notebook theme. I was saying on the earlier post, that beside the notebook theme, there should be a background for the board, like a cork texture where we could pin the notes/images/whatever… Other thing that should be improved, is the possibility to resize images at the board, in the past that was possible…
I think Tove’s idea of zoom in/out the board, is also a great feature that Springpad team should implant in the future.
Simona says: This is the best news! Great idea.
0- Love the app, it’s crushing my beloved Evernote as we speak. Evolution is like that, I guess.
1- Agreed that having MULTIPLE BOARDS per notebook would be pretty awesome.
My company is a design+strategy agency so we want to use Springpad as a VISUAL workspace to share ideas and brainstorm with clients interactively, even for presenting concepts.
To that end, if we’ve got pictures in lots of different notebooks (so far one notebook per project seems to work), we they are relegated to that notebook only, which is a bummer … my understanding is that, as of now, I’d have to reclip that image into another notebook, correct?
So my suggestion is that, instead of the board concept being a view type, it could instead be a new type of spring that can be a (visual) container for the existing types of springs. This way you can have a notebook with multiple Spring-boards in it (just like you can have multiple Spring-notes, Spring-photos, etc.).
2- Drag & Drop functionality when adding springs from multiple notebooks (after the fact, meaning after the note has already been created) would be awesome.
3- Agreed also that being able to zoom in/out on a board would be helpful for large boards. Kind of makes me think of Prezi.
4- Any plans to implement a more formal Kanban item? So far I’ve only found this … https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-V6HXLCcAAuD-y.jpg:large …
5- Any plans to integrate with Google Drive for cloud storage? This would be rad, too. We have large 3D files that we want to share with clients that we can keep on Google Drive, but right now we can’t link to them. Suggestions?
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Hey Gamal – Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. Feel free to post feature requests on our feedback site: https://getsatisfaction.com/springpartners/
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this actually looks REALLY cool.
and useful.
Cool to have it back. A few comments:
- it is to possible to add same note twice. Say i have a week plan and i want to have the same finner twice a week. Not possible unless i duplicate recipie
- the pictures are huge… For a full week plan it is very hard to fit in on The board. I like the old example better for meal planner. The fit board function on iPad is Nice… Could og find it on desktop?
- How about having more than 1 board per notebook. Say i have a menu 1,2,3 etc on a cookbook notebook.
- How about some calendar functionality?? So if i do use this for meal planning i could setup several week menues and add the to a month. I would love a widget on my phone to tell med todays plans. Maybe even be possible to schedule the shopping list on a date?
Thanks for your input, Lisa-Marie! We’re not planning many major changes to the board right now, but we’ll keep these things in mind. As far as fitting more things on the board, you can toggle the view of items to be square or compact. You can also drag the board around on the web to place thing off screen – give it a shot & let us know how it goes!
Very welcome back this feature =)
Only a comment:
The first time (since it was reintroduced) I accessed the board I didn’t noticed it was working… why? Because there’s no background for the board, it’s the same of the notebook… it would be cool there were some backgrounds to choose, or at least have a diferent background for it… a cork background would be very cool =)
Keep the good work
I’d also love a way to zoom in or out– so if I have a large board, I can zoom out to see the whole thing, and then zoom in on the area I want to see close-up.
Great tool. Thank you.
Is this feature available on the iPhone?
Yes!
I like really like the Board! Especially the map aspect. That’s a feature I’ve been wanting for quite a while. It will be useful when it makes it to the iphone. I have a few lists of restaurants, coffee shops, etc; and when I’m looking for somewhere close to go, It’ll be great to see them all on a map. Much easier than reading them all trying to figure out which one is closer, etc.
You’ve brought back one of the main features that attracted me to Springpad in the first place. And better than ever. Thank you. BTW to an earlier post… the background of the board changes if you click on “add a category & tags” and then change the theme.
Hi Ron,
Sorry to say this, but you’re wrong. The background of the board is the same of the notebook theme. I was saying on the earlier post, that beside the notebook theme, there should be a background for the board, like a cork texture where we could pin the notes/images/whatever… Other thing that should be improved, is the possibility to resize images at the board, in the past that was possible…
I think Tove’s idea of zoom in/out the board, is also a great feature that Springpad team should implant in the future.
This is the best news! Great idea.
0- Love the app, it’s crushing my beloved Evernote as we speak. Evolution is like that, I guess.
1- Agreed that having MULTIPLE BOARDS per notebook would be pretty awesome.
My company is a design+strategy agency so we want to use Springpad as a VISUAL workspace to share ideas and brainstorm with clients interactively, even for presenting concepts.
To that end, if we’ve got pictures in lots of different notebooks (so far one notebook per project seems to work), we they are relegated to that notebook only, which is a bummer … my understanding is that, as of now, I’d have to reclip that image into another notebook, correct?
So my suggestion is that, instead of the board concept being a view type, it could instead be a new type of spring that can be a (visual) container for the existing types of springs. This way you can have a notebook with multiple Spring-boards in it (just like you can have multiple Spring-notes, Spring-photos, etc.).
2- Drag & Drop functionality when adding springs from multiple notebooks (after the fact, meaning after the note has already been created) would be awesome.
3- Agreed also that being able to zoom in/out on a board would be helpful for large boards. Kind of makes me think of Prezi.
4- Any plans to implement a more formal Kanban item? So far I’ve only found this … https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-V6HXLCcAAuD-y.jpg:large …
5- Any plans to integrate with Google Drive for cloud storage? This would be rad, too. We have large 3D files that we want to share with clients that we can keep on Google Drive, but right now we can’t link to them. Suggestions?
Hey Gamal – Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. Feel free to post feature requests on our feedback site: https://getsatisfaction.com/springpartners/