Using Springpad for CT Management

I'm the type of scrapper that love creative teams and have joined the CT of quite a few fantastic designer. I've been looking for a convenient task/to-do program to be able to organize and manage my CT duties easily and effectively. After trying out a few programs, I found that I like Springpad the best.

Here is my workflow/organization:

When I request and download a new kit I will create a new task with the following information.

For the title of the task I will usually put the Designer's Name - Title of Kit - Release Date.
The due date I usually put 1 week after I download and not the release date. There are several reasons for this. First of all, most designers usually request the layout to be completed at least 1 week after the download date. They prefer the layout to be completed before the release date of course, but sometimes they will also finish the kit late so the typically rule is 1 week after the download date. Second of all, there are other duties to be completed after the layout's been completed such as uploading to galleries and enabling which occur after the release date. I don't really want to create separate task for those two different duties with separate due dates. It's just too much work so I basically just create 1 task for each kit. I use the tag system to determine which tasks I've completed and which tasks I still have to complete.

So when I create the new task I will also tag it with the following tags: create layout, upload to galleries, enable, and the name of the designer. Once I've completed a task I will delete the tag.

Here are examples of my tags. When I click on create layout, it will show the 5 layouts that I still have to complete layout for.

After I finish the layout, I will delete the "create layout" tag so when I click on create layout, it won't show up again.

Similarly, after I upload the layout to galleries, I will delete the "upload to galleries" tag; and after I've enabled, I will delete the "Enable" tag.

So the completed duty's task will only have the designer's name left. I will the check the task and mark it as completed. When I click on the designer's tag I will know how many layouts I've created for the designer.














Another feature I like about Springpad is its "attachment" feature. You can attach photo, link, note, video, and even file in the task. I normally attach the link to the new kit's thread in the designer's forum and also attach the photo of the completed layout.

There are tons of other features that I've not really used yet such as its webclipper, which is similar to Pinterest, and also notes for taking notes.

Also, I use android phone and springpad is also available for android phone so it's really convenient for me.