Anonymous wrote:You you all have the Pinterest app, or use your phone browser, or just use on a computer? I do most of my browsing on websites on my phone.

For Pinterest, I either use a computer browser (with a Pinterest button extension so I can easily pin things as I find them without having to go to Pinterest). On my phone, I just browse within Pinterest because I don't have a browser extension and I wouldn't want to have to go back and forth between the app and a browser.

I also have a couple projects that I use Pinterest to track and I will actually write down things I need to add to those boards when I come across them if I'm not on my phone or computer (like if I'm talking to someone or watching a movie or something) so that I can later go on Pinterest and add it.

Anonymous wrote:I spend time on instagram and on websites and have lots of ideas about food recipes, housecleaning tips, parenting ideas, kid activities, etc. How do you organize all these ideas? Do you actually revisit them?

My current system is ... just opening a new browser tab on my phone. So I pretty much always have hundreds of tabs running on my phone.

Constantly. Possibly 7 days a week. I recently started using secret boards.

NP. Interesting to read this thread. I posted a couple of weeks ago re: Pinterest. I note that it seems to be heavily used, at least by DCUM folks, for recipes, decorating and travel, which I what I thought was mostly what was on there. I started out looking for travel ideas. But I've ended up using it to create boards to save pins about a couple of specific TV shows, actors and musicians whose work I like.

What I'm finding useful is that if I see a pin I want, it very often leads me to a Tumblr, Instagram or Twitter account etc. that was the original source -- and that leads me down other rabbit holes to find things. I am not on Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter etc. so I'm getting a lot from those sites just via pins and then clicking through to those social media platforms (yep, I'm mostly seeing the linked materials though I'm not a member of those sites). I keep up with a couple of pretty obscure performers and through Pinterest have found a lot of clips of their other performances, charity events, concerts, and old social media posts on platforms like WhoSay etc. Just searching the Internet wouldn't bring up half this material. So, anyone thinking Pinterest is just recipes and crafty stuff, it's also a way to get an overview of a lot of other social media and "pin" types of sites, I've found.

BTW, just in case: My post a few weeks ago was asking if there is any way to "freeze" pins on a page. My pins get bumped all over the place when I add new ones because I often add a lot at once, and I don't necessarily need a whole new sub-section for just a handful of older pins I'd like to keep grouped together. Yes, I do already use a lot of boards and a lot of sections within boards....The consensus was that there's no way to do what I want to do and everything has to be endless sections. If you know a way tp freeze pins on a "main" page, please post....Though I've kind of given up the idea, I'd love it if someone out there has a trick!

Omg I love Pinterest. I couldn’t homeschool without it. This week we learned about the moon and a Pinterest had a great phases of the moon activity with Oreos that my kid loved.

Anonymous wrote:I love Pinterest

Me five.

Anonymous wrote:Instead of keeping the tabs open on your phone, just bookmark them. I have a bookmark folder for recipes. I go through every now and then to delete ones I never ended up using or didn’t like.

I do the same thing. A lot of my bookmarked recipes have joined our regular rotation.

Sometimes. I kind of soured on it when I found that a lot of what I was "pinning" just led to dead links or something totally different than what the picture/description in the pin was.

Anonymous wrote:It's also a great way to infringe on copyrighted works.

How?

I am a PP who uses it for planning travel (Spain board with "Barcelona" or "Seville" sections.)

It's also a great way to infringe on copyrighted works.

You you all have the Pinterest app, or use your phone browser, or just use on a computer? I do most of my browsing on websites on my phone.

Still love Pinterest for all the reasons mentioned.