Are you still pinning things the old-fashioned way?
You’re on a website and you find a fabulous picture of some craft you’ll probably never have the time to make. You MUST pin it.
You open another browser tab, load Pinterest, log in, add a pin, enter the URL, select the board, write a description, submit the pin, yada yada.
Then you have to stop for 10 minutes and remember what the hell you were doing before you pinned that image.
If you are not using a Pinterest shortcut, this post is for you. I’m going to show you how to right-click your mouse to pin to Pinterest.
Chrome and Firefox both have browser add-ons and extensions that let you right click an image and immediately set up a pin to Pinterest.
You never have to leave the site you’re pinning – everything happens in a popup window.
Go to this Firefox add-on page to download the Pinterest right-click add-on for Firefox. Click “Add to Firefox,” authorize the download and click to install. Easy-peasy.
If you use Chrome, you can download the Pinterest right-click extension from the Chrome Store. Again, easy to install. (If you’re on IE, you can watch this video on how to install the Pinterest bookmarklet).
Once you’ve got the right-click button installed, it works like this:
Find the image you want to pin. Right-click your mouse. You’ll get a little dialogue box. Select Pin This Image.
A Pin window will open up – separate from your browser – that lets you select your board, write your description, and pin. Bam.
The beauty of this is that you never have to leave the page you’re on. And if you’re anything like me, you have 382 tabs open in a browser at one time, so any time-saving you can do is priceless!
Do you use any other Pinterest shortcuts?
About the Author Gigi Ross
I'm a blogger, social media geek, mom and wife, foodie, reality TV addict and Jason Mraz fangirl. Not in that order. I write here about parenting, blogging, technology, social media and pop culture.
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Nice info about all this which is really helpful for all and it will introduce to everyone with new things which will be prove good for all profile.
They also have a “bookmark” that you can drag and drop into your Safari Browser bookmark bar so it’s at the top of the browser. Then when you see something you want to pin, in any window you have open, you click on “Pin It” in your bookmark bar (which shows all the time) and that pop up window appears, and you pin. Really fast for us Mac girls!
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Yes- this is what I do, just on Firefox on my Mac. Love it
this is how I do it as well on Chrome. makes for fast pinning
THIS made pinning so much easier…thanks for feeding my addiction.
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Gigi, thanks…for being such GOOD Pinterest enabler to me
I use the PINK IT in my bookmark bar, but I will keep this in mind for HOME…now how about my phone?
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Yes, I use the pin it button on firefox and on my phone and iPad- it is trickier to get that one installed initially put then works just like the pin it button on Firefox- so nice!! With Firefox, it doesn’t show up if I right click-instead I just hit the pin it button in my browser bar and it will pop up with a window with the possible images to pin, I just select the one I want then can type in a description and pick which board I want. Once it is pinned- that stuff all closes and I am on same site.
I love my insta-pin it button!
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Excellent Info. actually i only used bookmarking
. thanks for the tips.
I have a little Pin It button at the top of my toolbar. So fast, so convenient. It couldn’t get much more easy than that!
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I’ve been using a button for my tool bar on Chrome. Works pretty much the same way. Very easy!
I also use the pin it from my browser, using safari on my mac, which I find to be very easy. I will definitely keep this in mind though… I’m loving all your informative internet secrets to help the not so internet savy!
AWESOME…would have never even thought you could right click to pin. Thanks!
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