I have been using Evernote and Instapaper off and on for quite a while, but they have never really met my needs. They both do great things and I highly recommend them to everyone, but there were many features that I wanted that weren’t there. Enter Springpad. I like the categories that they use, the planning, the lists, reminders, to do’s and of course the interface is important to me. An app like this will be one that is used throughout your day and I can’t have something that is hard to look at. All of these features, and more, are what made Springpad easy and beneficial to use. This isn’t going to be a comparison between the three apps. I will leave that to the tech bloggers who get paid to do such things. One feature, though, that was strangely absent, and which I must have, was a web clipper for Safari on the iPad. Of course, I googled it and found many other people were searching for an answer, but no one seemed to know how to make it work. I knew Instapaper had a workaround that works pretty well using a javascript. So, I talked to one of my programmer buddies and after about ten minutes he emailed me a new javascript which works. It may look kind of tedious, but it is really beyond simple.
Let’s get started. To begin with, these are iPad instructions, but can be used for your iPhone too. First, you need to click on the Settings button on your iPad. Under Safari, make sure your Always Show Bookmarks Bar is turned ON. Once you have done that, click your home button and open Safari.
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