Springpad - online notebooks to help manage your life(springpadit.com)
springpadit.com
Springpad - online notebooks to help manage your life
http://www.springpadit.com/
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Started to sign up but stopped when it asked for my email.
Yeah, we go back and forth on that. We only use it currently to send you a confirmation. You can still login immediately though. OpenID is definitely in the road map.
I suppose we could allow you to login to a more restricted account (no spamming since we do have email/sms out support) until you validate in some way.
I suppose we could allow you to login to a more restricted account (no spamming since we do have email/sms out support) until you validate in some way.
PG's advice is right. Take down all the fences -- you have less than 20 seconds to impress the user into staying on your site.
It's an attention economy -- asking for signup/login before providing real value = squandering that attention.
It's an attention economy -- asking for signup/login before providing real value = squandering that attention.
For TS we're trying to decide how to make sign-up dead simple. Since we want to support alerts and such, we'd like to simply use an e-mail/pw combo so that you only have to fill out 3 fields when you sign up (email/pw/pw confirm).
Do you have a better suggestion? Should we just specify why we ask for e-mail?
Do you have a better suggestion? Should we just specify why we ask for e-mail?
Maybe it's not high if people are buying something; they may expect to give an email in that situation. But you can A/B test to see exactly how many you're losing by asking for emails.
Give them a choice: https://ourdoings.com/reg.html
Actually, this service is pretty hot. I just signed up for it and what I really find attractive are the "springpad templates". Pretty cool, keeping an eye on it but not sure I'll integrate it into my daily life yet. Still hooked on OSX stickies + post-it notes on my monitor + Basecamp.
Why not use a wiki? My fave is Wikka: http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage
Disclaimer, I am a co-founder at springpadit.com.
The problem with a wiki, from my perspective, is the fact that it is unstructured. Some wiki's attempt to derive structure, or force users to use special syntax but that ends up being a little clunky. With structure comes some power. Tasks suddenly have meaning. A "Restaurant" data type can associate a map, or reviews. What we are trying to create is almost a personal content management system that helps users track all of that interesting structured data.
I am a fan of wiki's though. In fact I created
http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
Many moons ago.
The problem with a wiki, from my perspective, is the fact that it is unstructured. Some wiki's attempt to derive structure, or force users to use special syntax but that ends up being a little clunky. With structure comes some power. Tasks suddenly have meaning. A "Restaurant" data type can associate a map, or reviews. What we are trying to create is almost a personal content management system that helps users track all of that interesting structured data.
I am a fan of wiki's though. In fact I created
http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
Many moons ago.
Tried to see what it was, found a clickable link to something that sounded interesting, but couldn't see a sample without registering; so I gave up immediately.
You don't allow for Safari 4? That's a shame: it's more stable than Safari 3 in a lot of ways, and I can't have both on my computer at once.
it looks like a well-executed service. as soon as the registration system is working again, i'm planning to give it a go.
It has potential, but the interface needs work.
Also some of the G's are cut off on the right side.