Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Springnote – Online notebook with iPhone app

If you have an iPhone and looking for an online notebook application that has an iPhone app, check Springnote.
On the web, Springnote is an extremely easy and useful notebook application. You can create pages, share and work with friends together. There are two kinds of notebooks that you can create inside your account – Personal and Group Notebooks. I think you can understand the difference between these types by their names. You can always change the type of the notebook from the settings.
Springnote is a great way to create notebooks for ideas, interests, multimedia, projects, and documents. It provides a separate viewing mode for the readers and the readers can search, leave comments or subscribe to the changes using their RSS reader.
When you are creating pages, Springnote provides many templates that you can use to start with. Apart from the rich text editing, you can add images, video and files to pages. You can import your existing files to create pages. Sharing or collaborating is very easy. You can add important pages to your watch-list.
Dashboard shows the recently updated notebooks with more details, provides easy access to all your personal / group notebooks and provides visibility to the watch-list. Pages can be arranged in tree structure – all pages act as folders and can contain sub-pages. Add tags to your pages to easily categorize and find them. Page history shows all the changes to your notebooks and you can revert to previous versions. Last but not least, you can backup your notebooks by exporting them as HTML files to save on your system.
On the iPhone, you can download the Springnote app for free from the AppStore and get access to all your notes on the move. All pages are automatically cached when you view them and hence are available for offline viewing for subsequent use. You can take pictures and add them to your notes. iPhone app uses marked down syntax if you try to edit notebooks on the iPhone.

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