Pinterest and Organization

As my Pinterest boards grew and grew over the past year, I had to do some remodeling!  I had all of my school stuff under three boards,  math, LA, and Organization.  It was just all mish-mashed together.  Sometimes the picture didn't tell what the "thing" actually was, and I'd have to click and look at it to remember.  That just wasn't cutting it.

It was getting so crowded, hundreds and hundreds of pins.  I've never noticed if Pinterest has a limit for pins on a board.  I must've been getting close, it was crazy.  It also bothered me that when I would look at one of my school boards, I would see stuff I wish I had remembered much sooner.  So I did some moving around.  I made a board for almost every objective in both LA and math.  It really broke it down into easy to find pieces!  If I want some activities on inferences or money, I just go to my inference or money boards, and there are specific activities for them!  It took FOREVER to move everything around.  It also makes it harder for people who want to follow my LA or math boards, because now there are about fourteen of them, but I had to be able to use them!  Another thing I do (which may or may not be a good thing for my computer) is pin something and go ahead and download it to my desktop and put it in the right folder.  Since I use a Mac, desktop folder storage is very acceptable.  I have one folder on my desktop for all of my documents. In that folder, I have the same titles as I do on my Pinterest boards. When I save a document, it is not only on my Pinterest board, it is also in the desktop folder with the same title.  Now my activities are basically stored in two places (again my obsession with backing things up) and I can find it very quickly.  I definitely forget what I've pinned, so having it in two places helps me quite a bit.  I have to say, Pinterest has made me not buy magazines for some reason.  To me, it's like looking at a new magazine every day with no ads! I look at the pictures and if I'm interested, I read on. I absolutely love it and it has changed the way I do some things.  How about you?