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I adore Pinterest. And my 17-year-old sister tells me that blogging makes me a nerd! So I thought I would establish my nerd status for good by blogging about how to organize Pinterest boards!
I have WAY too many Pinterest boards. In my defense, fewer than half of them are actually mine. The rest are collaborative boards, because I like to collaborate. But 47 boards of my own plus 53 that belong to other people (yes, I added ten after taking that screenshot) makes a LOT of boards! It got to the point where I had no clue what boards I had, or how to find them. So I organized them, because that is way more fun than folding laundry. Here’s what I did:
Step 1: Print out all your boards and cut them up. Organize them on the floor (or table). You can’t tell, but these are organized. I cut a few, too.
Step 2: Storyboard your boards by theme. I glued them onto construction paper with a glue stick, because that made it easier for me to visualize everything. I used blue paper for collaborative boards, and purple for my own.
Step 3: Organize your storyboards. I put all of my boards at the top, and tried to make them flow fairly seamlessly. The collaborative boards follow the same underlying organization as my individual boards.
Step 4: Get on the computer and move your actual boards. Be sure to save your changes frequently! And thank you, Jennifer, for that tip! Pinterest, if you are reading this, I would love to get around this entire rigmarole by being able to move board titles around (without having to deal with the images)
Thank you, Pragmatic Mom, for your input on my Pinterest organizing project! All the large thumbnail pictures for the boards shown in the top photo for this post are from this blog, except 10 Tips for Reading With Baby, which comes from The Pleasantest Thing. If you haven’t seen it, drop by for a visit. It’s a lovely blog!
How do you organize your Pinterest boards? And what is nerdier: writing a blog, or reading a blog? Writing and reading blogs?
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I love this idea!
You always have brilliant ideas!
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Thanks, Sherri!
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Great tips! Pinning it (of course!)
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Thanks, Carolyn!
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Thanks for pinning, Carolyn!
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So… this weekend I will be sitting on the floor with my 172 boards (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKkkkkkkkkkkkkk I think I may have a problem!) Seriously this is a great idea and once I have my board making problem sorting I’m going to be doing it.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 4:56 pm
Oh, you just made me feel better about my 100 boards! So glad you like my method. I posted it because the first few times I tried going through them I got completely overwhelmed, and this was the thing that worked for me!
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I have my by themes that I use. I guess that is horrible I guess I have to many of them. I’m thinking I need to rename a few of them.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 4:59 pm
Sorting by themes makes sense, Cassie. I think you can have a lot of boards if they are well-organized – mine were not!
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Cassie @ 3 Dinosaurs Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 5:00 pm
How do mine look? http://pinterest.com/cassie_osborne/
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 5:05 pm
They look pretty good to me, Cassie! They seem to have underlying organization, especially since it looks like they are mostly alphabetical.
This is such a great idea! I need to work on my boards.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 6:19 pm
Mine are so much more helpful now that they are organized!
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You are so smart! I kept changing mine around and then taking screenshots. This is so much easier!
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 6:29 pm
I tried that first, and it was a nightmare. I’m impressed you got it to work!
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Hmmm….I feel like I’m not a really good pinner yet. I’m wondering if I should just set a time each day to pin. I don’t really do that much for some reason. Though I do love the idea of it, I just haven’t been able to put it to its full use for me yet.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 11th, 2013 at 8:40 pm
I go through phases, but I especially love Pinterest as a way to store inspirational ideas from all my favorite blogs! I even use it to organize my own ideas so I don’t forget them!
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wow… i would’ve never thought of doing it this way. i just have most of mine done alphabetically. then my non-blog “momma” ones at the bottom.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 14th, 2013 at 6:42 pm
I think alphabetically works really well if you have a clear focus. My boards were too eclectic for that to work :)
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Very timely post. Organizing my boards has been on my to-do list for ages…this is a great system! I have been hesitant to encourage readers to follow me on Pinterest because of my state of chaos! Thanks for the great idea.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 14th, 2013 at 6:42 pm
Yes, it’s much easier to say “find me on Pinterest” when there is a way to find things on boards!
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You have achieved an uber-cool level of geekiness!!! :)
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 14th, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Impressive, isn’t it :)
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OK. I cannot believe you did this. You might be even nerdier than me. Totally awesome.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 14th, 2013 at 6:40 pm
I felt gloriously nerdy organizing them :)
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This is a great idea! We organize ours by content and most relative with collaborating boards on the bottom. One little tip I have to share that I found recently is that you can reduce your text screen size to view more boards at one time for those big picture thinkers.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 12th, 2013 at 5:31 pm
Thanks for the text size tip! I didn’t know that!
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Can I ask a stupid question? What would be the reason for organizing them? for you or for visitors?
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 12th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Both :)
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I love the idea of actually storyboarding them! Your Pinterest board look great MaryAnne! Thanks for the shout out!
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 14th, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Thanks for all your help! I really appreciate it!!!
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Wow! That looks like a lot of work. I think I’ll organize mine now while I don’t have too many boards and can avoid the printing and the story boarding – that is an awful lot of boards you have.
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 14th, 2013 at 6:33 pm
That’s a good idea. I wish I had started organizing mine sooner!
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Looks like a great way to organize Pinterest boards! I don’t think writing OR reading blogs is nerdy. :)
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 14th, 2013 at 6:30 pm
I don’t mind being nerdy when it’s this much fun :)
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Wowzers! I bet that feels good to have them all so organized and I bet it was fun looking through them! I want mine to be organized by how they may inspire me…
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MaryAnne Reply:
January 18th, 2013 at 6:21 pm
That’s a great way to organize them!
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This is a similar process to editing a film, in many ways — and I had never looked at it like that before. But, I am good at editing films, so I should be better at organizing my pinboards. I agree that pinterest needs to improve their offerings in this department too! Just curious – is there a reason that you put collaborative boards at the bottom and that you keep them separate. To be honest, there is a part of me (the REALLY nerdy part) that feels like the whole thing should be alphabetical, but I realize that does not actually make the most sense. Maybe we need a Pinterest Dewey decimal system. :)
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MaryAnne Reply:
February 7th, 2013 at 9:54 am
Film storyboarding was actually my inspiration for this approach!
I worked in a library for five years, so I adore the idea of a Pinterest Dewey decimal system :)
The main reason I keep the collaborative boards at the bottom is because I don’t have much control over their content, but I also use them differently. The boards that are just mine are my way of storing ideas and inspiration; collaborative boards are more for sharing ideas and inspiration.
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There’s a new option as of today for organizing Pinterest boards quickly and easily. My business, Pin4Ever, has just released Bulk Editing Tools that let you edit an entire board in one step — move some pins, copy some, delete some, even rearrange pins so the ones you want are on top! Pin4Ever has been offering Pinterest account backups since September 2012, and we’ve saved over 5.2 million pins for our customers. Please visit http://www.pin4ever.com to try a free backup, or sign up for our 6-month or 1-year Unlimited Plans if you want access to the new Editing tools! Thanks!
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