«Smart» Springpad Organizer - a worthy alternative to Evernote

Evernote - convenient system of orderly storage of various information available anywhere both online and offline - from any computer, mobile phone or device. Today, Evernote is a leader in its segment.

However, as more and more active use of the system are noticeable flaws interface bugs with text formatting, no need in the era of the social web functions. Furthermore, with a combination of more than 400-500 in the base notes desktop client Evernote gradually turns into a floppy monster with long starting and braking operation.

As a result, involuntarily start to think about the search for a viable alternative.

I recently met a promising free web service Springpad. Due to its reasonableness, versatility, availability of social functions and the ability to perform semantic analysis of input information into it, he may in the near future to press the Evernote on the pedestal popularity.

Currently Springpad system includes a web interface (including a mobile version of it) and clients for the iPhone and Android. It is also expected the appearance of desktop clients for Windows and Mac OS.

Unlike Evernote, Springpad not only stores data. This multifunctional personal organizer - he knows how to handle a variety of data types, you can instantly share them with others, analyzes them and offers additional relevant information, as well as a social service (you can read the public records of the organizers of your friends).

Springpad is a strong advantage Apps module (Applications). You can connect to your organizer application that you need from the proposed directory. It presents a variety of notebooks, calendar, task manager, address book, to maintain a household budget tools, project budget book recipes, wine collection, scheduler publishing blog, personal blog, tools for keeping track of your sports performance and health data, for planning trips, parties, visits and weddings, and a range of other specialized applications to control almost all aspects of your life.

Applications are simple and lack of advanced features, but their capabilities are sufficient for most users. In the future it is expected to open service API - third-party developers can create their own applications.

In Springpad, there are several types of data: notes, tasks, event notification, recipe, book, movie, restaurant, wine, and others. All of them are controlled by the respective applications from the catalog or can be stored outside of the application in an orderly manner.

Depending on the type of data you can specify the attributes of the record created. For example, for the task - completion date, category, and comments; for the event - the date, duration, venue of the event, a reminder for a specific time before the event by e-mail or SMS, etc.

For each entry, you can add comments, links can be inserted into her pictures, video clips, attach files to it; you can send it to yourself via e-mail or printed out; you can make it private or public.

Setting a record for the public status, you will be able to quickly copy to the clipboard a shortened link, as well as to share this post with others people through Twitter, Facebook, email, and using about 300 different web services (through integration with service Springpad AddThis).

Entries created in applications, are also displayed on the summary page of the My Stuff (My Stuff) in the form of a chronological tape. Above the tape form is to add a new entry to select its type from the list. Created so that record is stored independently outside applications.

When you enter a new entry displays search suggestions from Amazon, Netflix, and other services from springpadov other people that can automatically add data to a record from these sources (for example, when you type the name of the film thus creating a record with brief information about it and a link to an online store website with a trailer and etc.).

Post navigation, filtering, and search for the information you need quickly and easily occur. Entries are arranged by type, tags, lists, saved searches, and can be marked with flags.

In addition to the total of all of your tape recordings, there is also a friends band (Friends Stuff). In it there are public records of the Springpad users whom you Fallaway (in Springpad, as in Twitter, it's called "folloving").

In addition to the above-described method of entering information into Springpad - via the web interface, there are two: by sending a message to a special email address and using "smart" bookmarklet.

When you use the bookmarklet Springpad parses the contents of the current web page (Russian-language Web pages are not supported), offers on the basis of this analysis, make a record of a certain type and loads the data from the bookmarklet in external sources. You can also define your own data type and name all the major attributes of created entries: comments, tags, publicity or privacy, belonging to any list, etc.

Springpad can work together with services such as the Gmail (establishment of contacts based on the address book), Google Calendar (events synchronization), Twitter (Send you alerts and reminders), Flickr (a two-way exchange of images), Facebook (establishment of contacts based on your friends list in the Social network).

Springpad - powerful smart organizer with great potential and good prospects. Am I now refuse to Evernote in favor of this service? Not yet. But the only thing that stops me - is the lack Springpad desktop clients for Windows and Mac OS. When they appear, and if they are convenient and fast, if Evernote deficiencies that time will be the same, I'm without much thought by the user Springpad.

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