Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


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§ ita § - Sep 21, 2012 8:11:14 pm PDT #21010 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Jessica - Sep 22, 2012 3:44:01 am PDT #21011 of 25505
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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.


le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 8:34:04 am PDT #21012 of 25505
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 9:27:06 am PDT #21013 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 9:46:49 am PDT #21014 of 25505
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 9:53:19 am PDT #21015 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 10:13:35 am PDT #21016 of 25505
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 10:24:03 am PDT #21017 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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...


le nubian - Sep 22, 2012 10:27:20 am PDT #21018 of 25505
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2012 10:37:43 am PDT #21019 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I use tags when I enter notes, but I've never used them retrieving. I intend to create archival notebooks so that I don't lose content, but it's not right *there*, but I haven't wrapped my head around the best way to do that yet.

I have to say, I fucking love the OCR. I did a search for something when I was on the phone with tech support, and the hit was in the photo in one of my serial number notes.

Unrelated Mountain Lion question: What is the advantage of the Launchpad over the previous Applications folder metaphor?