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Find out how to create secret Pinterest boards: How to Create a Secret Pinterest Board in 3 Easy Steps
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Pinterest is about sharing images, but it’s not all about sharing images. Pinterest can be a very effective tool to keep information organized, sometimes away from the prying eyes of others.
When you’re researching projects on the Internet, how do you save your favorite sites, interesting articles, or ideas for inspiration? You could bookmark each site, but your bookmarks could quickly become overwhelming. Finding the bookmark you want when you need it could take more time than searching for the site all over again.
Instead of relying on bookmarks, you can use Pinterest to refer back to your favorite sites. But just as you may not want the world to know your every bookmark, you may not want the world to know your every pin on Pinterest.
By using secret Pinterest boards you can keep your pins private, helping you make the most of Pinterest.
As of March 2014, Pinterest now allows you to have an unlimited number of secret boards so you can take all of these ideas for secret Pinterest boards and use them without worrying about others discovering your pins.
Ideas for Secret Pinterest Boards
Gift Lists
As you peruse the Internet you may come across the perfect gift for a loved one. No need to broadcast that gift to the world, keep your gift ideas to yourself with secret boards.
Secret Passions
You may not want the world to know about your secret passions. Let’s say you’re truly a fan of the Bee Gees, Barry Manilow or 1 Direction. Perhaps you dream one day of being a professional juggler. Maybe you’re on a diet but want to collect recipes using your favorite decadent food: chocolate.
Not everyone needs to know your guilty pleasures. Use a secret Pinterest board to collect articles, photos and videos of your indulgent passions beyond the reach of prying eyes.
Romantic Dates
Planning a special date for a loved one? Compile romantic ideas on a secret board without risk of discovery.
House Hunting
Dreaming of your dream home? No need to upset the neighbors who might start speculating when the For Sale sign will appear on your front lawn. Pin real estate listings to your secret board to imagine living in your own castle some day.
Home Renovations
Planning a dream kitchen? While you’re saving your pennies for tackling a home improvement project, save your ideas to a secret Pinterest board.
Comparison Shopping
Whether you’re hunting for a new car or a new pair of shoes, you may not want the world knowing what’s on your list. Use secret boards to organize your possibilities away from prying eyes.
Diet Ideas and Inspiration
Don’t want the world to know you’re trying to lose weight? Create a secret Pinterest board with recipe ideas, diet plans, fitness tips, inspirational quotes, images of fit bodies and other information to help you achieve your goal.
Medical Issues
Have a medical issue you don’t want the world knowing about? Create a secret Pinterest board for remedy ideas, articles by others with the same issue, and tips for coping with the issue.
Surprise Parties
Planning a surprise baby shower? 100th birthday party? 10th anniversary party? Create a joint secret board with your friends to share party ideas without the guest of honor suspecting a thing!
A Baby on the Way!
If you found out the great news that you’re expecting a baby but aren’t quite ready yet to let the world know, you can create a secret Pinterest board for nursery decorating ideas, baby names, and university plans.
Bonus idea: After you’ve shared the joyous news of your pregnancy with others, you can use the board to keep the baby’s gender a secret until the delivery date.
Wedding Plans
Keep the details of your big day a secret while sharing ideas with your bridesmaids. Make a secret board with ideas for wedding dresses, rings, wedding cakes, shoes, bridesmaid dresses, flower arrangements, decorating ideas and more.
New Logo
Considering a new logo for your business? Use a secret board to pin logos you like from other companies, logo ideas for yourself, fonts you like and colors that work for you.
Monitor Your Competitors
Keep an eye on the competition with secret Pinterest boards that cover their new products, advertising campaigns, blog posts, news articles and other information.
Prepare for a Meeting/Speech
Have a big meeting or speech coming up soon? Use Pinterest to compile information and research, save anecdotes and inspirational quotes, and organize images so you arrive prepared.
Business Ideas
Want to keep your business ideas organized yet private? Pin ideas for a product, advertising, trademark ideas, business plans or other ideas to a secret Pinterest board.
Job Hunting
Fantasizing about a new job? No need to let the world know about your career plans. Use a secret Pinterest board to keep track of job opportunities, research potential employers, and save advice from others who have the job you aspire to.
Article Ideas
If you’re a blogger or a journalist, pin ideas for future articles to a secret board. Save images, infographics, research and topics to a secret board. Invite others if you collaborate on your articles.
Vacation Plans
Excited about your next vacation destination? No need to let the world know you’re planning to escape to Fiji for a Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-type holiday. Let your imagination run wild to the wilds of Zanzibar without anyone questioning your intentions.
Add a map to your secret board to locate your pins. See, Pinterest Place Pins – Your Inspiration for Your Next Destination! for information on how to add maps to your pinboards.
SlideShare
Enjoy this SlideShare presentation of inspirational and creative ideas for secret Pinterest boards:
Your Thoughts
Have you ever used secret Pinterest boards? What have you used secret Pinterest boards for? Have you ever used group secret Pinterest boards? Let us know in the Comments section below!
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* Gift image courtesy of asenat29
* Chocolate Sundae image courtesy of The Culinary Geek
* Romantic Date image courtesy of Mick T.
* Dream Home image courtesy of UGArdener
*Dream Kitchen image courtesy of Susan Serra
*Strawberry Cupcake image courtesy of balookey
*Grace Kelly Wedding image courtesy of Laura Loveday
* Beach chair image courtesy of Pam Morris
Hi Carolyn,
Those are such wonderful inspirational ideas 🙂
When I read your earlier post on the secret boards, I was wondering as to what people would share on those. But one of my cousins added me to her secret board and I saw so many wonderful family pictures there, while another one from there shared her wedding ones – it just carried on for hours!
You are absolutely right – there is no limit to the amount you can share on Pinterest, and such secret boards can become really great places to share some things you only want to share with a handful of people too. I think I better take out some time and create one as well now 🙂
Thanks for sharing. Have a nice week ahead 🙂
Hi Harleena, Excellent point. Sharing family photos is another great idea for secret Pinterest board. You can share photos with family members and they can pin their photos to the secret board as well. That way everyone in the family can share photos without showing those photos to the world.
My most active secret board is for article ideas. As I’m reading the latest tech news, I will get ideas for future articles for The Wonder of Tech. As I’m researching these ideas, I can pin articles to my secret board so I can find those articles easily when I’m ready to write. I can also pin images so I don’t have to hunt for them later.
Wow Another Great Article, You always Pick a topic and wright super quality article, I have also Pinterest Account for my site, I never use like these Tricks, Actually i was not read any of these, Now also happy to read about this, I will use it in future Great Keep it.
Hi Mahendra, Yes, creating a secret Pinterest board is easy but sometimes we need inspiration to use our secret boards effectively. I hope these ideas help inspire you to create some of your own secret boards on Pinterest, Mahendra!
Wow!! that is such an informative post! Honestly, I didn’t know all that! Thank you Carolyn.
I just stumbled upon your blog through twitter 🙂 …still trying to browse it.
Hi Balroop, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! So glad to have you here from Twitter. I hope you enjoy exploring The Wonder of Tech.
Great list Caroline
Kinda reminds me a little of the content I have for an upcoming post on Twitter lists! You can keep those secret too.
It is not something I have been using, but I think with all these ideas, I might just start using Pinterest for private stuff too!
Hi Ashley, Yes, secret Pinterest boards can be very handy, especially for bloggers. As you research your article on Twitter lists, you can pin useful websites to a secret board for blog research.
I look forward to your post on Twitter lists, Ashley!
This is an interesting article. I didn’t know about secret boards on Pinterest until now. And, as a private investigator, a secret board might be useful for some projects that involve taking images of a subject’s house and neighbourhood prior to conducting surveillance. Other investigators on the case would be able to access the images.
Thank you for sharing!
Hi Laura-Lee, You’re right, private investigators could make great use of secret Pinterest boards. You can pin images as you conduct your investigations and then share them with clients when you’re ready to report your findings. With Pinterest now allowing up to six secret boards, you will have much more opportunity to use Pinterest for your business now.
Great ideas thanks, I never thought to use Pinterest in this way. Will prove useful when house hunting next year!
Hi James, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! Yes, secret boards can be very useful when house hunting. Realty sites have caught on to this now and often include Pin It buttons on their listings. You can make a secret board to pin listings you’re interested in to find them quickly and compare them without anyone knowing you’re shopping for houses.
Hi Carolyn,
I’ll have to check this out. I might be able to use it for research. I have a lot of bookmarks all in different folders and often have to delete the older ones. I struggled to get good light for my photo competition. Now I have entered it and sent my photos, it seems to be sunny every day! I photographed a charity event last night. It went quite well apart from a few shots when I didn’t notice a mirror in the background causing lens flares! I need to take more shots next time, but indoors with a flash can be difficult. I shall be doing lots of events this year, I hope. The narrow-boat gala on the canal, the carnival, the party in the park; I’m building a list! I shall be doing art too…
Hi Mike, As a photographer, you could create secret Pinterest boards to compile photos for one of your competitions, then make the boards public to ask people’s opinions of which one they think you should submit. I hope many people are able to discover your artistry through Pinterest, Mike!
Hello Carolyn Nicander,
Well, I also discovered that the proper use of creative and eye catching photos with interesting content are imperative to get the maximum number of fans on Pinterest.
Very true, Abell. Secret boards won’t get you more Pinterest followers. Not even one. But you can use secret Pinterest boards to help organize images, websites and other information you find around the Internet without anyone else seeing them.