Yeah Jon, a great reason not to trust it. I do not want my contact list uploaded into facebook, and vice versa. I work with some celebs. I do not want them in the Facebook data mine, if at all possible.

Anyone using Springpad? Especially if you've tried Evernote, and are using it instead of or as well as?

I swear I was, but I go back and look at my usage, and I add or edit something in Evernote every week, if not every day. It's been months since I fired up Springpad, and I can't remember what my rationale was. I'm hovering over the Uninstall button, but I'm looking for use cases first--it's clearly not unpopular.

I swear I was, but I go back and look at my usage, and I add or edit something in Evernote every week, if not every day. It's been months since I fired up Springpad, and I can't remember what my rationale was.

This is me. I signed up for it and it seemed potentially very useful, but I never find myself actually going there.

I have very specific uses for Springpad:

I use it for recipes because I like its recipe layout better than Evernote. But Evernote has a really awesome receipt/shopping plugin that make it much more useful to me.

But mainly I use Springpad for movies, books that are upcoming that I want to see. It notifies me when such things show up in theaters or bookstores or on DVD.

Okay, that last thing sounds great--how does that work? I am trying to find some sort of ebay shopping alert for the whole web/world. That looks like one part of it.

for example, go to imdb page for upcoming movie. bookmark it in springpad (I have a movies notebook and a book notebook).

it should auto read the data and set up an alert.

Okay, I springed The Hobbit. What's gonna happen????

I guess I should have picked one I know less explicit info about, huh? But this sounds fab.

so I just did it for Looper (pick a more recent movie to see what I mean).

It comes out next week, and I get rotten tomatoes rating and in the "alerts" section of Springpad, I get notifications when books change price, I got a notification when JGL showed up on Letterman (right?), when movies I have bookmarked show up on Netflix instant.

Okay, I'll find something a bit closer to now to test with and see what happens. What sources does it use for books--the one you used when you springed, or others across the web?

I need a crash course in the things it does that Evernote doesn't. I don't think I'll likely switch over for the overlap, but it looks like there's some cool actions it can take.

Mildly relatedly, I wish Windows and OS X had a share button in each app so that I could bop content from one program to another. My grown up operating systems are jealous of that...

yeah, I tend to prefer Evernote, but I use Springpad for stuff like this. My problem right now is that Evenote has SO much stuff in it. I have been using it daily for years. I don't use tags. So Evernote is a bit of a hot mess.

I need to cull it.