1/ Organize your web

Even for those who don’t know how to use bookmark or history, pearltrees is an extremely powerful classification tool. The map allows a logical decomposition that is at the same time concise and exhaustive. What’s more, the reduction of contents to a simple pearl allows you to handle a very high quantity of information on the screen (around 50 websites). No other classification tool can seriously match this. Therefore the first point about using pearltrees is to benefit from a classification that is powerful, ergonomic, logic and subjective.
2/ Connect your interests

Pearltrees is a community! It reveals your contact points with other maps created by other editors. When one of your pearl is circled in yellow it means one other editor also put this webpage into his account. To identify them, you have to click on the pearl and select the tab “explore” in the window, then you will be able to see who crosses you. You can thus navigate from map to map to discover the subjects that are connected with your pearl. In addition, the “pearltrees”‘button allows you to discover any map’s neighbourhood. It means that you can see the 50 nearest maps (sorted by common URL) of the one you chose. At last, if you click again on the pearltrees’ button you will be taken to the front page, which exposes the 50 top followed maps.
3/ Guide your friends on the web

Every map you create is the result of knowledge and navigation logic. There are many incentives to share them; a documentation research about a group work, the planning of a journey/trip with your girlfriend, the building of a streaming map to reconstitute cult series… Whatever the use, the idea is to propose a navigation to your friends our your community. Moreover, maps can be exported; you can post a link leading to a map. Actually you can even put www.pearltrees.com/username on your facebook, myspace, blog, twitter…

Filed under: Help by Pierre Gancel on March 18th, 2009