Pinterest has announced a slew of new tools designed to help users organize their pins and boards.
First up, a new archiving option lets you file a board away for posterity without having to delete it. This particular feature serves a number of purposes — for example, you may wish to revisit an old board you’ve created if it pertains to a meaningful life event such as a birth or a wedding, but you don’t want it cluttering up your main dashboard.
At the same time, you might get sick of Pinterest recommending related items such as flowers or dresses. So archiving a board effectively kills two birds with one stone: you can focus on relevant boards without being inundated with irrelevant alerts and notifications.
Above: Archiving a board
You may also remember that Pinterest launched a new “sections” feature back in November, allowing you to divide a board into, well, sections based around distinct themes. Now, Pinterest will let users switch the sections around and reorder them. Additionally, Pinterest is also expanding this functionality to Pins, which you can now move around the board.
Pinterest said that this feature was among its most requested, one that presented their engineers with some notable technical challenges.
Above: Rearranging Pins
Finally, Pinterest has also revealed that you will now be able to sort boards by more criteria, including alphabetically, creation date, and most recently saved to.
Above: Board sorting
Pinterest announced it has 200 million users back in September, maintaining a growth rate of roughly 50 million new users per year. As with other tech companies, Pinterest has been doubling down on its artificial intelligence efforts, including computer vision search tools, Facebook Messenger bots, and deep learning to recommend related Pins. These latest updates feed into Pinterest’s broader AI push, given that it uses the content of boards as one of its main sources to make recommendations.
So by affording users more ways to tailor and customize their boards, Pinterest should be able to garner more juicy data to feed back into its machine learning algorithms.
The new features are rolling out from tomorrow on Android, iOS, and through Pinterest’s web interface.
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