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I think I am a pinterest dummy. Help?

I suck at browsing pinterest. When I see the home page, I'll see something I really like and want to pin it, but when I log in, it's not displayed anymore, and what I see is all really boring or stuff that I recently pinned myself. Do they sort the stuff you see based on your pins?

And how do you search? I feel like the stuff I like the best has stupid tags like "I have to make this!" or "Love it!" instead of "embroidered hand towels". 

As a result of the above two failures, I spend way less time on pinterest than I should. Any advice?

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Re: I think I am a pinterest dummy. Help?

  • When you see Pinterest not logged in, it shows everything. Right under Pinterest at the top of your page, you can click on Everything and go back to that. Or you can specify DIY and crafts or Home Decor (the two I check out the most). Searching doesn't yield a lot for me either, because my view of "farmhouse" or "country" (sort of the feel we are going for with our new house) is waaaay different than most. lol

    My biggest pinterest vent is when people pin something from the main page of a blog, and not click on the actual blog when they pin something. So in essence, they are just pinning the blog and I have to go look for whatever they pinned. Ergh! GL.


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    Lily loves her new little sister!
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  • Can you click the option to stay logged in? I don't know if the pinterest search feature searches just the tag or the link/url and website embedded in the pin.  I've done a lot of for things and found stuff I was looking for but never paid enough attention to whether the tag matched what I searched for...

    I also like the pinmarklet for pinning things I don't find on Pinterest.

    ETA - UPDATE: I tried a search and it looks like it just considers the tag of the pin, not the underlying url.  They should make the search feature do that - it would improve it a lot!

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    Can you click the option to stay logged in? I don't know if the pinterest search feature searches just the tag or the link/url and website embedded in the pin.  I've done a lot of for things and found stuff I was looking for but never paid enough attention to whether the tag matched what I searched for...

    I also like the pinmarklet for pinning things I don't find on Pinterest.

    ETA - UPDATE: I tried a search and it looks like it just considers the tag of the pin, not the underlying url.  They should make the search feature do that - it would improve it a lot!

    The problem is I like the stuff I see when logged out better than when I'm logged in, so I log out, browse and remember the tags, then log in and pin them. lol. so complicated! Even if I click the "Everything" label, it still seems to be filtering it somehow. 

    And the not linking directly to the specific blog post is a pet peeve of mine, too.

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