My Springpad Experience
I love to use my PC for planning, contacts, calendaring, prioritizing and all things involved with a life long passion to become better "organized".
Whether or not I'm successful in becoming better organized, at least I'm trying.
Years ago I used paper solutions: Day Timers, then I migrated to PlannerPads and in my early PC days I created endless to do lists on Lotus 123 and then on Excel. These were a lot of fun, since I could rapidly sort my tasks by a keyword for each and group like tasks with like for batch processing and all the other variations on productivity themes that I learned about.
Last year I discovered two, online "cloud" programs that seemed to be tools that I could use daily to bring order out of chaos.
The first program was www.gubb.net. It was free, very simple, yet elegant. All I had to do was create "tabs" for my keywords, typically my various interests that generated "tasks", or things to do, or things to memorialize and keep track of. As I accumulated the "tabs", I could arrange them in up to 4 columns, with each stack of tabs placed in alphabetical order. I could put notes and lists within each tab. This was all great fun and quite addicting. For days I thought that I would soon be the most organized person on the planet!
Soon, however, I ended up with a screen full of very nice tabs and a lot of notes within each and it was pretty powerful and useful, but, I felt that there was something missing.
About that time I became more focused on Outlook because of the email, into which I received several of my gmail account streams. Then I began to use the Outlook tasks, notes and calendar features because I read the workday control with Outlook book (I'll add the title and author later, because it is a GREAT book) and it had me tweaking the set up of the various Outlook modules for maximum focus on "the next step". I still use this for most of my daily productivity.
Recently I found another online cloud program that I like a lot: Springpad. I access this at www.springpadit.com and it, like www.gubb.net is free.
Springpad is cool because it is pretty free form and yet has enough structure to be extremely useful in organizing all the task and note data that I deal with every day. I keep it open on one of my PCs more and more, all day. As soon as a new "to do" presents itself I log it in as a task. I can add contacts on the fly as well as notes. Also, there are various "apps" for rapid addition of data to do with recipes, wine, books, shopping lists, calendars, etc.
Since there are blog posts, articles, white papers, books that I dream of writing, it looks to me that I could use Springpad as a perfect research tool for collecting all sorts of research data. Plus, it is so easy that I do not have to get bogged down in a long tail learning curve.
There are some minor things I do not like about Springpad, but, none of them get in the way of organizing my daily data inflow.
Later, as I progress with Springpad, I'll let you know how it is going. But, for now, I highly recommend this program to you and hope you get as big a kick out of it as I did.
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