We pride ourselves in making Springnote the best combo of note taking and wikis. With the release of Springnote for iPhone, note taking with Springnote has just been made better.

When you talk about note taking, it's often done in a notebook. Springnote so far has been a browser-based application, not leaving much room for many of the portable devices.

Now comes Springnote for iPhone. It's as simple as this: "take notes in iPhone/iPod touch and access it on Springnote" and "read all your Springnote pages on iPhone".

Below is the list of iSpringnote features, that will completely transform your iPhone experience:

1. Access your Springnote account from anywhere with your iPhone or iPod touch
2. Support Markdown syntax to maintain formatting through a PC and/or iPhone
3. Create new pages while on the go
4. Read existing pages on your iPhone
5. Attach mobile photos from your iPhone to a Springnote page
6. View page file attachments
7. View pages in its original hierarchical structure through a tree-style menu
8. View recent updates and view pages in the order they were updated
9. Read pages viewed by the iPhone offline by having page information stored to your iPhone’s local memory (page caching).
10. Smart searching allows you to search for pages easily through keywords
11. View pages in portrait or landscape mode by rotating your iPhone 90 degrees

Springnote for iPhone is free and can be downloaded through App Store. Download Springnote and simply change your iPhone life :)

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Few days ago, we came across this cool article and decided to respond with few words on the importance of technology to learning and education.

Springnote has already witnessed many benefits that it has offred to many educational organizations and success as well. Here's the comment we left on the article. Of course, we're getting ready to write more on the power of wikis in education and go even deeper into the Hannae Elementary School case explained later in this blog!

Till then, have a great weekend, everyone!

Hi, Sara!
Thanks for the great post. I really enjoyed it. Gave a whole new scope of the Tech-learning area.

Just to add few cents to what you were saying, I work for a wiki service named Springnote (http://springnote.com/en). It's being used by many academic institutions in Korea, from elementary schools all the way up to graduate level research institutions, and it's truly creating a new form of academic collaboration in a postive way, which never existed before.

For example, at this one elementary school, every student is required to use Springnote for all their academic activities. What happens is they actually do all their homework within the wiki. Lots of assignments are group projects; but after school, students can't really get together because they all go home. So in the evening, they get together online, communicating through IM and finishing their homework in Springnote. That night, teachers grade assignments and leave comments in Springnote. The conversation about the assignments gets carried over to the next day when they actually get "physically" together in classrooms and talk throughout the day. And the same cycle repeats.

While much of this process includes a new form of "virtual" collaboration, I think it's just better suited for the growing digital generation, that are increasingly spending more time online and are just simply getting more accustomed to processing their thoughts that way. Of course, a wiki like Springnote can be useful across all learning settings, be it college or even corporate.

I've shared my thoughts more in the following:

http://blog.springnote.com/pages/1718876

http://blog.springnote.com/pages/1635676

and this is the actual wiki page of the elementary school example I mentioned above. (Sorry its content is in Korean but many students learn to write their journals/diaries in English)

http://han1.springnote.com

Springnote is based in Korea. It has multi-language offerings in Korean, English, and Japanese. (We're planning to expand the language set in the near future!)

A question that naturally follows is this: "Why Asia? Do you think you can ever invade the invincible U.S. market while based in Korea? Stop dreaming!" Well, let me walk you through one step at a time to show what's really going on.

(click here for a larger view of the chart)

As a starter, needs for wikis are soaring higher than ever. If you study the search trend on Google, as shown in the charge above, there are far more queries for the word "wiki" than "blog ", i.e. Internet users are willing to learn more about wikis than blogs.

However, what's even more surprising is that most of those queries are indeed coming from many Asian and pan-Pacifc countries, such as Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. That means 1) we've got an astonishingly fast growing market in wikis, and 2) the market belongs to Asia. That seems to be a great business opportunity right there, doesn't it?

For example, Springnote, the sole online wiki service in Asia, gathers many users from around the world through its English and Japanese service offerings. A great number of them indeed come from China, Singapore, Japan, and Australia, in addition to many from the U.S., U.K., Germany and Canada (We spotted an Swedish team today!) Openmaru, the maker behind Springnote, is located in Seoul, Korea, garnering a huge opportunity to explore the market here just by being local, i.e. Asian. While it's a service aiming for global presence, it's been so lucky to enjoy a success in Asia that could not easily come with many companies from the West .

The Web 2.0 revolution didn't stop in the Silicon Valley. It's spreading throughout the entire globe. Do you want to be global or local? It's a very important question any business development people should be asking themselves every single day. After all, the Internet increasingly blurring the boundaries bewteen countries, or even continents. :)

(I covered this topic on my personal blog TechnoKimchi more in depth.)

As we mentioned before, we've been working really hard to make Springnote a better service for you. Our efforts mostly revolved around providing better view, collaboration, content management, and communications. And we've come to bear a great fruit in the whole new Springnote, which offers amazing upgrades, including:

1. View Mode

You can now view your Springnote pages in a gorgeous style in View Mode. As a picture is worth a thousand words, what used to look like the second (edit mode) will now like the first (view mode)!

2. Multiple Notebooks

You can create as many notebooks as you want. If you remember that each notebook comes with 2GB of file storage, you know this means an unlimited amount of online file storage for you! :)

3. Two Types of Notebooks

Personal Notebooks, mostly for personal note-taking, and Group Notebooks, mostly for collaborative projects and working creating content together. Moreover, joining or inviting to a Group Notebook has never been easier.

4. Dashboard

a place where you can see all your notebooks and recent updates.

5. Communication Channels

You can not only exchanges messages with other Springnote members through Inbox, but also leave comments on each page.

6. Integrated Search

The amount of content in Springnote has shown a sigifnicant growth in the last few months, leading to a need for a stronger search function. And we have it.

Of course, we have far more features implemented. You can check out what's been changed here at the forum.

Our team has been testing the new Springnote for a little while and we fell in love with the upgrades ourselves! Make sure to check out the new version right now!

Still new to Springnote? Come and join us!

As you can see from the chart above, note taking turns into a hot topic every August-September. We're assuming it's probably because it's the back-to-school time and you know, note taking is a crucial part of learning process. In fact, note taking has been the very spring of creative ideas and works throughout humanity; or at least, that's the marketing slogan of Moleskine, right? ;)

How do you take notes? Pen-and-Paper is probably still the best way for the majority of people. Love for iPhone is adding lots of digital flavor to note taking as well.

But for a brief moment, let's think about bringing that online. Are your notes just yours? Don't you sometimes want to share and work on them together with your friends? What happens you take notes on one device and want to access and modify it from everywhere? We all know synching isn't necessarily the most convenient way to do so.

So why not start online from scratch? Here are some of the benefits of doing so:

• you can access your notes from everywhere as long as you're connected to the Internet and we're hearing the word "ubiquitous" more than ever,
• you can share your notes with others as you co-develop your ideas and projects,
• you can brag what you know online and search engines will automatically connect knowledge-seekers to your expert pages,
• your ideas can no longer be contained in text and image formats only; they often need to be expressed in sound and video formats, the "digital" formats,
• typing is always faster than handwriting, and
• you don't need erasers as you can simply modify your notes and even go back to the older versions as you wish.

These are what Springnote offers you. Learning is becoming more digital and social and we need right tools for accomodating such changes in the education environment.

So again, we strongly urge you guys to consider Springnote as your note taking utility as well as a learning tool. Wont' regret it. :)