Pinterest

I’ve been using Pinterest for a couple of years now to keep track of visu­al research. It’s nice to be able to keep the pictures organ­ised in categor­ies, and auto­mat­ic­ally have the source noted. The site is also very visu­ally appeal­ing. If you go to the front page without having any interests or contacts set up, it looks a bit dismal, full of wedding dresses and self-help maxims. However once you have it set to what you want to see (and anything that bores you unfol­lowed), I find it full of inter­est­ing pictures.

They recently added two new features: Embed­ding collec­tions on websites, and adding pictures to a map. My set of photos of places is look­ing very nice now added to the map. (The embed­ding feature doesn’t work with Word­Press right now)