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Gary Walmer, on April 29th, 2011 at 8:18 pm Said:

OK…
I joined.
I have a user name.
I have an account set up.
I have created pearls.

NOW…
When I go to my page, my pearls are there, my account show up, but my drop thingy is gone. Every time I try to do something, it asks me to login, but won’t let me. It says I need to join. So when I go to join, which I’m sure I already did, it tells me the “user name” I have chosen is not available–which, of course, it wouldn’t be because I ALREADY HAVE AN ACCOUNT.

Help?
amsika, on May 2nd, 2011 at 1:06 pm Said:

Hi Gary,
Can you send me an email (antoine.msika@pearltrees.com) in order to give me a few additionnal details please ?
I would need to know your username, and also how you try to “do something” (directly on pearltrees.com or with the extension, in this case, which browser do you use ?)
This will help us to understand what happens and of course, to give you back access to your account
Thank you very much
Nicolao Coelho, on June 18th, 2011 at 6:08 am Said:

A short question,

all my pearls in the dropzone got lost. How I can get them back?

With regards

Nicolao

P.S. Or are they gone with the wind 🙂
xanydee, on June 18th, 2011 at 7:08 am Said:

Hi, just wondering because I couldn’t find this in any of your blogs or anything. but I’ve noticed that some of the lines to pearls are bolded and others aren’t; I was wondering what that meant?
amsika, on June 20th, 2011 at 4:01 pm Said:

@nicolao : can you send me more details about what happenned and your username please ? (participation@pearltrees.com) This will help us to understand what’s happenning and to find them back (because they are certainly not gone with the wind 😉 )

@xanydee the bolder a link between two pearltrees, the more pearls there are in the pearltree. It’s an easy way for you to see quickly if a pearltree has a lot of pearls or just a few 🙂
John Newell, on June 30th, 2011 at 9:17 am Said:

Love the idea of Pearltrees but having to stop recoimmeding it as there are problems within.
I have tried importing my Delicious bookmarks in several times and it hasn;t “taken” once – even though I continually get advised that it is IN my account – great – where is it?
Also, although logged in and with a near fully working site I am told I need a new “Key” – what is that ?
Then there’s the reply notifications that are by email and without any content or comment – and the links are clumsy

This would be an EXCELLENT replacment to browser bookmarks – but I think I am going to have to pass – it’s too “buggy”
amsika, on June 30th, 2011 at 10:11 am Said:

Hi John,
I’m sorry that you had these issues, which seem unusual.
About the email notifications, can you send them to us (participation@pearltrees.com) we will investigate to understand what happens with the links.

About your Delicious import, have you checked that your bookmarks are public and not private? We only import the public ones, so if they are private, they won’t be in your Pearltrees account.
Sally, on July 7th, 2011 at 3:54 pm Said:

Hi, how do I add an image to a Pearl? It tells you how to an an image to a Pearltree but not an actual Pearl. Can you help?

Thanks
Sally
amsika, on July 8th, 2011 at 11:30 am Said:

You can only customize your pearltrees’ avatar. The pearls are illustrated with the favicon of the website in order to be easier for everybody to quickly understand what’s in the pearl 🙂
mashuri, on July 20th, 2011 at 4:50 am Said:

Hi, I’m a new comer from indonesia. Actually I still confuse to operate pearltrees, please for give me if I make some mistakes to operate it. I hope u give me some instructions to operate it well. thank’s a lot.
amsika, on July 20th, 2011 at 3:49 pm Said:

Hi mashuri,
Here’s a video that will be very helpful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBy6jnmht3U
And if you have any question, feel free to send us an email (participation@pearltrees.com) we’ll be happy to help 🙂
pangasius, on August 2nd, 2011 at 1:57 pm Said:

There used to be a way to add a pearl button to your browser toolbar. This would be a good idea, but of course there’s absolutely nothing on your site that indicates it’s available.

Fairly sad statement about a web site’s organization when you have to find Pearltrees extension with Google.

Of course I’ve only spent 10 minutes looking on your web site.
Andrea, on August 2nd, 2011 at 11:38 pm Said:

I thought that Pearltrees would be a great alternative to Bookmarks in Firefox, which are very cumbersome to reorganize and view. However, I can’t find an efficient way to add my existing bookmarks to pearltrees. There is no import function, except for Delicious. There is apparently no way to drag and drop them, in groups, or even one at a time. If I will have to open all 200 or so bookmarked pages individually in order to pearl them, this is not the organizational tool I thought it was. Moving things around and viewing them easily, as shown in the videos, is great. But most of us have years worth of bookmarked pages to add in the first place. Am I missing something? Is there a simple way to do this?
silviobraz, on August 4th, 2011 at 12:54 am Said:

hi, Antoine
I can export the pearls in extent. rdf, but to import the same. rdf, as I do?!
tks
amsika, on August 16th, 2011 at 11:21 am Said:

@pangasius: you can find our extension directly on Pearltrees, by going to the “extension” section of the settings

@Andrea: you’re right, we need to implement an import for the browsers bookmarks. Good news is that we will very soon, so stay tuned 🙂

@silviobraz: you can’t import the rdf into Pearltrees for the moment. But we will improve the improt features soon 🙂
Andrew, on August 22nd, 2011 at 3:29 am Said:

Once you make a way to import (hopefully simply drag) firefox bookmarks into pearl tree, I hope you also have a way to keep them in 2-way sync. I would gladly pay for that functionality as a premium feature. I see pearls as a wonderful supplement to my bookmarks, but not a replacement.
amsika, on August 22nd, 2011 at 11:41 am Said:

Thanks for your comment !
We’ll keep your suggestion of the 2-way sync in mind 🙂
thesilverseas, on August 26th, 2011 at 8:18 pm Said:

Hello,

Is it possible to set some trees as public and others as private?

I think Pearltrees is great not only for connecting and sharing, but also for being able to access one’s bookmarks/follow-ups anytime, anywhere.

If a privacy feature could be added, I would feel comfortable sharing the site with and spreading the word to more people.

Thanks,
TheSilverSeas
amsika, on August 29th, 2011 at 5:46 pm Said:

Hi TheSilverSeas,

I have some good news for you : we will implement a “private pearltrees” feature in a few months 🙂

Kind regards
Antoine
asterisco, on September 1st, 2011 at 4:11 pm Said:

I like pearltrees a lot but i’m missing an android apllication and an ios application. I have a tablet with android honeycomb, a iPhone with iOS 4.0 and a desktop PC. I would like to have them all synchronized and i would like to have offline access to my tree. Are any of these functionality in line for future development?

Thanks a lot.
asterisco
amsika, on September 1st, 2011 at 4:49 pm Said:

Hello asterisco,

Some of these functionalities are on the roadmap.
We will release an iPad app very soon, and an iPhone app a little bit later. The android app is not planned yet, but we are considering creating one at some point 🙂
Kathy Long, on September 24th, 2011 at 8:23 pm Said:

This has happened twice now. I’m trying to organize my pearl and trees. I dragged one tree to another and saw the turquoise line connecting the. I let go and it disappeared. These were my two favorite trees. Are they gone forever? If not, how do I find them? I don’t see them anywhere.

🙁
amsika, on October 3rd, 2011 at 10:51 am Said:

Hi,
Don’t worry they are not gone forever 🙂
First thing, have you checked if they are in your dropzone ? If they are not, can you tell me your username and the title of these pearltrees and we’ll have a look. Thanks.
SyrianPrince, on September 25th, 2011 at 9:47 pm Said:

I love Pearltrees 🙂 !
Thank you for making it.
I find a site I want. I have already embedded my pearltree in my class lms and blog. I can add resources for my students as soon as I find them. (I think the private or limited sharing of some pearltrees is a good idea btw)
Best wishes,
SyrianPrince
amsika, on October 3rd, 2011 at 10:51 am Said:

Thank you very much for your comment 🙂
Casey, on September 29th, 2011 at 12:20 am Said:

So I was logged into my account (Username: liquidrainbows) and I realized that I had actually created two accounts. The other account (Username: liquidrainbows7) was the main account I had been using to pearl content so I decided to delete the liquidrainbows account. It said that I was logged into that account, so I went to go delete it, but when I came back to the site, the liquidrainbows account was still there and my main account (liquidrainbows7) was gone! And all my content with it! It seems that I was somehow logged into both accounts at the same time and, since they both have the same password, I had no idea until it was already done.

Can I get my account back? And also, is there a way to fix the problem of being logged into two accounts simultaneously on the same computer/browser?
amsika, on October 3rd, 2011 at 10:59 am Said:

Hi Casey,

You can use two accounts on the same computer, but not on the same browser, since you can only be logged in one account at a time in the same browser.
As for your deleted account, I’m very sorry for this but unfortunately we cannot recover a deleted account.

Kind regards,
sirdigbycc, on September 29th, 2011 at 8:38 pm Said:

can I make a couple of feature requests here?

1) the ability to link to a sub-tree – currently I can only link to the root perl – which also mean my twitter alerts require me to indicate how to get to newly added content if in a nested subfolder

2) the ability to toggle the visibility of sub-trees.

open all from root
open all in a set of nested subtrees
amsika, on October 3rd, 2011 at 10:46 am Said:

Hi sirdigbycc,
You are very welcome to make feature requests 🙂

1. You can already create a sub-tree that you can link to another sub-tree : once created it, just grab it with your mouse, and drag it where you want 🙂 If you drag it over another pearltree it will open it and you will be able to put it in there.
2.You can manage how you open the trees: if you click on the ” +” that is next to some pearltreee you will open them, without closing the other ones 🙂
Michel - TravelNotes, on October 6th, 2011 at 4:49 pm Said:

Is there a plan to implement a link check tool to run through the pearls and make sure that the trees continue to look how they should?

The dreaded 404 and domain name takeovers are two of the biggest problems we face when linking to outside pages on the Internet.
Frocaboy, on October 7th, 2011 at 1:37 pm Said:

True I agree on those two problems. We have in our plan a feature that would let you when you’re pearls turns out into 404… As to the domain takeovers, we can invent something. Thanks for the feedback, I’ll add it to the list.
Kimberly Westfall, on October 18th, 2011 at 10:31 am Said:

i am just joining peartrees today, I honestly don’t know what I am doing, but I am a fast learner with most things and hopefully this will be no exception.
amsika, on October 18th, 2011 at 4:35 pm Said:

Here are two videos that will help you learn fast 🙂
if you use Pearltrees on the web: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBy6jnmht3U
if you use Pearltrees for iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81SlZ4am98E
Christian K, on November 3rd, 2011 at 10:24 am Said:

Hey Antoine,

first of: Great invention!! I really like pearltrees and its incredibly useful!!

My wife was asking about a certain function and where to find it and I end up having to ask you, since I just cant find it.
Its about this topic you mention here below->

“2.You can manage how you open the trees: if you click on the ” +” that is next to some pearltreee you will open them, without closing the other ones”

Is there a way to keep the subtree and pearl structure open while you navigate your pearltrees. So to say my wife would like to have a number of parallel pearltrees open, while navigating through others.. Is there something like a lock button to keep a pearltree unfolded? Would you be able to implement this if its not yet possible? Thank you so much again for making pearl trees!

Regards,
Christian
Djyll, on November 3rd, 2011 at 1:07 pm Said:

HI, I uploaded an avatar and it has appeared in all my pearls. This s not useful.
How do I delete and avatar and how do I get the different sites’ avatars back?

Thank you,
Djyll
amsika, on November 4th, 2011 at 10:33 am Said:

Djyll,
I’m sorry for this issue with the avatars. Unfortunately, you can’t automatically the previous ones back, you will need to customize them again. When doing so, be careful not to select the option “apply to al sub pearltrees”.

@Christian
Thanks for your comment 🙂 If your wife is using Pearltrees on a computer, she can open as many pearltrees as she wants by openning them with the ” + ” that is next to the pearltrees. But this option is not available on the iPad app.
DMOU, on November 21st, 2011 at 3:30 pm Said:

Hi,

Big fan of pearltrees, however I feel like I can’t use it as often as I would like due to the missing “private pearltree feature”. Is there any news on when this will be made available?

Thanks
amsika, on November 24th, 2011 at 2:38 pm Said:

Hi DMOU, the feature will be available in a few months 🙂
DrBazUK, on November 25th, 2011 at 1:24 pm Said:

Hi there,
Is there a specific format for images used in avatars – I’m having difficulty uploading any images to my pearltrees – I’m aware that the individual pearls inherit their images from the content pearled…

Thanks in advance.
DrBazUK
amsika, on November 25th, 2011 at 2:56 pm Said:

Hi,
Any classic format (jpg, png, gif…) should work, provided it’s not too big. If it doesn’t work, can you send us the email you’re trying to upload please ? We’ll see what’s happening. (participation [at] pearltrees [dot]com )
Thanks
Andrew Laws, on November 25th, 2011 at 9:01 pm Said:

Two questions:

1) Is there any way to open every sub-pearltree within a pearltree? For instance have my whole ‘work’ pearltree spring open in it’s entirety? It seems pretty pointless to open every folder one after the other when the whole point of a visual system like this would be to expand everything and quickly navigate to it…..

Instead I have to click ‘Work’ then ‘Projects’ then ‘2289’ then ‘web’ then I finally get to my link. It’s so painfully time-consuming I might as well just use regular bookmarks.

I’m trying to champion Pearltree at work as it’s got real potential for different workers on a project to capture and share web resources, and the possibility of sharing a detailed web resource library with a colleague months from now is tremendously useful, but the endless drilling through the pearltrees to get to links is killing any enthusiasm. And yes we have to organise it like this as it needs to be broken out by project to be shared with the right people…

2) I use a lot of foreign-language sites and rely on Chrome to translate. Is there any way to open links in a new browser tab with one click. (this is a minor quibble really, point 1 is a deal-breaker for me.)

Thanks in advance!
holly, on November 27th, 2011 at 6:26 am Said:

How do I change the info in my mini- bio ?
I tried to edit it by hitting the ‘edit info’ button and typed a new mini bio and hit, ‘save’
…but the old mini bio info I wanted to delete was still there.
Thx!
Holly
amsika, on November 28th, 2011 at 5:23 pm Said:

@Andrew :
Thanks for your message.
by clicking on the “+” that is next to a pearltree, you’ll open it and keep the other ones open.
If you want a quick acess to a specific pearltree, you can also use the list that is at the top right corner of the display.
As for openning a pearl in a new tab, you can do it with a right click and then chosing “open in a new tab” :).

@Holly,
That’s weird, it should work this way. What browser do you use ?
kevin bryant, on December 2nd, 2011 at 10:18 am Said:

items that have been shared, are they automatically marked so that the user won’t re-share?
amsika, on December 2nd, 2011 at 3:52 pm Said:

Hi Kevin,
They’re not marked, but it’s an idea, I take note of it, thanks !
Help in English by arkenstorm - Pearltrees, on December 9th, 2011 at 6:11 am Said:

[…] Organize your account To organize your pearltrees, you can also use the editing tools. They allow you to delete,rename, copy, move, or customize your pearltrees. […]
yvelinekempf, on December 10th, 2011 at 12:35 pm Said:

HI,
Just starting on pearltrees.
I watched many help videos but still can’t figure out why in the editing tools drop down menu I don’t have the rename button (which I could see on one of the help videos) So I can’t rename my pearls? Or do you just have this button when you team up on a pearl tree?
Thanks for your help.
amsika, on December 12th, 2011 at 2:32 pm Said:

Hi,
There’s now a very easy way to rename your pearls and pearltrees: just click on its name in the detail window 🙂
Suzette Ward, on December 30th, 2011 at 10:23 pm Said:

Hi:

Maybe I’m just having a slow day, but I can’t figure out how to make a sub-pearl.
Frocaboy, on January 3rd, 2012 at 2:27 pm Said:

You can create a new pearltree (from your pearler or the appropriate button in the interface) and just drag and drop it into another pearltree. Happy new year!
jadefoxx, on January 4th, 2012 at 8:34 pm Said:

Hi,

I really like the concept. However, it’s essentially useless to me unless I can import my chrome bookmarks as an html file. When I go to to ‘import’ the only option is to get delicious bookmarks, which i don’t use. Am I missing something here? I simply want to import an html file from my desktop…… please help! Otherwise there’s little point in me using this tool, and that’s a real shame as it could be really helpful. Thanks!
amsika, on January 5th, 2012 at 4:41 pm Said:

Thanks for your feedback jadefoxx!

New import features will be implemented at some point later 🙂
BeN, on January 26th, 2012 at 2:54 pm Said:

Hey quick question

What happened to being able to put my pearls wherever I want them from the Pearler?

I use to have a firefox button that allowed me to place the website wherever I wanted but even after looking through the “customize” menu I can’t find it anymore. What’s the deal?

It’s just sloppy to pearl the website into my main page & then cycle through my pearltrees manually.

HELP.
amsika, on January 26th, 2012 at 4:32 pm Said:

Hi,

The button is still here, but its design has changed 🙂 When you click on the blue button with a white star in it, you’ll see a menu enabling you to chose where you want to put your pearl.
If you don’t see this, can you please send us a screenshot of what you see instead? (participation@pearltrees.com)
Thanks !
Linda Long, on February 2nd, 2012 at 1:30 pm Said:

After reading the questions and comments above; I’ve come to understand that anything published, (currently) on our pearltrees is basically public like on Facebook, until we go in manually and make our changes: public, friends-of-friends, just friends, just family and/or close friends, and other sub-groups.
I’m also very new to pearltrees & read above where you are to implement a new privacy tool. I guess my question is this : Is everything we’ve elected to include in peartrees up until this point published publicly, for anyone on the web to access, retain or even republish to those unfamiliar with pearltrees?
Another concern is why there are so many pearls (people) on my tree that contain people I’ve never heard of and are from so many different nationalities? Can anyone, anywhere simply add themselves as a pearl on a branch of my pearltree? If this is truly the case then I must, (keep) but discontinue utilizing my pearltree, until the privacy option is implemented, and available for use. Had I been aware of this when I first joined pearltrees, I would have certainly waited. It simply seemed like such a great tool when I first joined. Linda Long
amsika, on February 8th, 2012 at 11:56 am Said:

Hi Linda,
For the moment, everything is public on Pearltrees, so you can share your collections with everybody. We will introduce soon a premium option enabling people to keep their pearltrees private.
Also, you can pick other people’s pearltree and put them in your account to follow their activity, but people can’t add themselves to your pearltrees 🙂
Doug, on February 8th, 2012 at 10:26 pm Said:

How do I expand my entire Pearltree so that I can see so that I can see every pearl and pearltree that I have? Where could I have found the answer to this question on my own?

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