How to get pearls?

There are different ways to make pearls.

1/ Use Pearltrees’ extension to pearl while browsing

Pearltrees offers several extensions to enable anyone to “Pearl” the stuff they like on the web while browsing. You can install Pearltrees’ add-on for Firefox, Pearltrees’ extension for Chrome, Pearltrees’ plugin for IE and Pearltrees bookmarklets for other browsers.

A. Pearltrees’ addon for Firefox

It has 3 buttons

Pearl: Image 4 records and turns into a pearl the URL visited.

In: Image 5 Allows you to directly select the map within which you will put the URL you are recording.

Reveal: Image 6To directly access the selected map.

Tip : With the add-on you can now teleport yourself within one of your pearltree. Just select it through the button « in » and click on « reveal ».

B. Pearltrees’ extension for Chrome

Image 14

It is really simple. You click on the button in your browser to open the list. Then, you click in the list where you want to put the pearl displayed in your browser. And, if you click “Go to your account”… you go to your account! 😉

C. Pearltrees’ plugin for IE (Internet Explorer)

It works in the same way as Firefox add-on

D. The Bookmarklet (for any browser)

It’s a simple button you can drag and drop to the toolbar of your browser. Then it works really simply, you click on it, it opens a list and then you choose where to pearl the web page displayed in your browser.

2/ Use Twitter sync. to pearl while twittering

You can synchronize your Pearltrees account to your Twitter. It will enable you to pearl all the web pages you tweet!

3/Pearl directly from your account

There are two ways to pearl directly from Pearltrees.

At first, when exploring others account by using the minipearl and the search, pick the pearls and the pearltrees that interest you and put them in your basket. When you go back to your account, they will be automatically replicated and you will be able to put them in your account as you like.

You can also pearl directly from your account: just click on “new pearl” or “new pearltree” depending on what you need!

Filed under: Help by on May 28th, 2009

37 Responses to “How to get pearls?”

  1. Lilia Shirman, on April 2nd, 2010 at 6:54 pm Said:

    Great idea! love the brain-map approach. Would be REALLY GREAT to be able to add pearls in bulk from one’s browser’s bookmark list. Doesn’t look like its possible at the moment?

  2. PED, on April 6th, 2010 at 11:50 am Said:

    For the moment, only a Delicious import is available. But more import functions will come this year 🙂

  3. Kelly Lester, on April 13th, 2010 at 4:44 am Said:

    When will an add on for CHROME be available?

  4. pedaviet, on April 14th, 2010 at 3:04 pm Said:

    Next week 🙂

  5. Ron, on June 21st, 2010 at 10:05 pm Said:

    I second the motion on being able to import bookmarks. I have a lot of existing bookmarks in Chrome that I would like to be able to import.

  6. awlobo, on September 2nd, 2010 at 8:30 pm Said:

    I would like to import my firefox bookmarks directly into pearltrees. Also, does this sync over various devices?

  7. amsika, on September 3rd, 2010 at 11:18 am Said:

    @awlobo firefox bookmarks import is not available right now but, at some point, we may implement it, stay tuned 🙂

  8. RGrayberg, on November 1st, 2010 at 2:54 am Said:

    I can’t get the Delicious bookmarks to import into pearls. I followed what seemed to be clear and simple instructions, but it doesn’t work. Help!

  9. amsika, on November 2nd, 2010 at 2:13 pm Said:

    Hi RGrayberg,
    have you checked that your Delicious bookmarks are public? If they are private Delicious won’t let us import them

  10. Craig, on December 18th, 2010 at 3:41 am Said:

    Hi,
    I’d like to import all my past and future blog posts into Pearltree, organising them into trees under a ‘Blog’ pearltree via their tags and including all the links in them to other sites.

    Are you going to build a method for doing this?

    This also requires ‘pearls’ to be able to be added to different subtrees – which is important for information discovery purposes, even if it increases the apparent number of pearls.

    Cheers,

    Craig

  11. sachain, on December 31st, 2010 at 6:07 am Said:

    I second awlobo’s comment about importing firefox bookmarks. That is actually why I added this add-on. Is there a way to import the saved version? I believe they can be saved as .json files and a few other formats…

    Thanks, it looks like a great application.

  12. amsika, on December 31st, 2010 at 3:17 pm Said:

    Thanks Craig for your suggestion,we’ll keep it in mind!

    Sachain, now the only import available are the Delicious bookmarks. But don’t worry, we will work on implementing a Firefox import 🙂

  13. Charles Savage, on January 10th, 2011 at 4:39 pm Said:

    Have you arranged to import Firefox bookmarks into Pearl yet? Surely hope so, as it’s most needed. It will certainly make my live so much easier using Pearl. Thanks for the good work.

  14. amsika, on January 12th, 2011 at 2:20 pm Said:

    Thank you for your comment Charles! We have not yet implemented the Firefox bookmarks import, but it’s in our plans. We’ll keep you posted as soon as it’s available 🙂

  15. rajabu, on January 28th, 2011 at 2:22 pm Said:

    the import of Firefox bookmarks would seem to be the most obvious thing to do. I hope you manage soon. I will reeinstall to test the addon then.
    Cheers.

  16. Kelly D. Rodgers, on February 25th, 2011 at 2:28 am Said:

    I use Firefox 4.0 Beta. Are you also considering the possability of providing a way of importing bookmarks for this also?I like the whole design of ”Pearltrees”and I think it’s a great way of locating subject matter of interest to people. This has the potential of being a valuable learning tool for students as well due to the wide array of subjects covered.

  17. amsika, on February 25th, 2011 at 6:04 pm Said:

    Thank you very much for your comment Kelly! The details of this future feature are not already determined but we will of course take into account as many browsers possible 🙂

  18. holdonmyheart, on May 14th, 2011 at 4:32 pm Said:

    I’m about to pull my hair out. Used to use pearltrees with firefox, decided I’m going to switch over to the new version of chrome. I downloaded the app and the extension, and the “new pearl” and “reveal” buttons won’t show up. Any way to make ’em appear? I’ve tried logging in again, as they are supposed to show up after you sign up.

  19. amsika, on May 16th, 2011 at 11:39 am Said:

    Hi holdonmyheart,
    Actually, the chrome extension has only one button, so it’s working properly.Yet, when you open the extension, you will see at the top of the menu an option to “go directly to your account” : it works like the “reveal” button of Firefox 🙂

  20. random asshole, on June 3rd, 2011 at 12:59 am Said:

    nice idea but utterly useless for many of us without basic bookmark import functionality. Pushing users toward cloud based services might seem progressive, but it sucks, what happened to choice?

  21. amsika, on June 3rd, 2011 at 10:23 am Said:

    We are strong supporters of choice. That’s why we have implemented a way for the users to import their Delicious bookmarks into Pearltrees, and a standard way (which complies with W3C standards) to export their whole Pearltrees account. Yet, we agree that these features have to be improved, and we have planned to do so in the future.

  22. vincenzo, on July 7th, 2011 at 5:48 am Said:

    From my point of view, Pearltrees is completely unusable without the possibility of importing bookmarks, that is frustrating, because it looks a very good idea with a high potential.
    It is surprising you don’t offer that possibility, it would hugely increase the number of users. I would be curious to know if it is difficult to do.. it looks to me simply importing an html file, but maybe I am wrong.
    In any case good luck, I hope it will be a very successful project and to be able to use it in the future.

  23. amsika, on July 8th, 2011 at 11:38 am Said:

    Thank you for your comment vincenzo.
    We have prefered to focus on building the best product possible before focusing on all the ways to import bookmarks (form other services or from various browsers).
    But don’t worry, this it be implemented soon 🙂

  24. pangasius, on October 1st, 2011 at 1:12 pm Said:

    How about telling people where these tools are located?

    Hint: upper right, click the wrench.

  25. nick an, on October 10th, 2011 at 9:43 am Said:

    HELP – I had trhe toolbar pluging for IE on my old PC – now I cant find it anywhere – what is the URL for IE toolbar plugin??

  26. amsika, on October 10th, 2011 at 8:00 pm Said:

    You should be able to find it in the extension menu of the Settings.
    By the way, which version of IE are you using ?
    Thanks

  27. David Alexander, on May 31st, 2012 at 9:36 pm Said:

    I just tried importing my delicious bookmarks says they have been imported but cannot find them anywhere

    i have a lot of them so a bit weird

    most are set to private would that impact import

  28. amsika, on June 1st, 2012 at 10:12 am Said:

    Hi David,
    we only import public bookmark, that’s why you won’t find them.

  29. my home, on October 19th, 2012 at 2:09 pm Said:

    I too believe thus, perfectly written post! .

  30. Chris Andersen, on January 16th, 2013 at 9:07 am Said:

    How do I bulk import Firefox bookmarks?

  31. amsika, on January 21st, 2013 at 12:18 pm Said:

    Hi, for the moment you can only import bookmarks from Delicious. Other kind of imports will be implemented at some point later 🙂

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  33. Henrichs, on June 4th, 2014 at 9:02 am Said:

    I can’t get my pearltrees button back in my Firefox toolbar

  34. amsika, on June 4th, 2014 at 9:58 am Said:

    Hello
    That’s a problem! Can you go in your extensions menu and uninstall it please? Then go back to Pearlrees and install it again.
    If it doesn’t solve the issue please send us an email with some details:
    – the version of FF you’re using
    – are you on Mac, Windows or Linux ? (which version?)

    Thanks!

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  36. Orobene, on November 11th, 2014 at 4:27 pm Said:

    Hello,

    Hello,
    Same problem as Henrichs : I still can’t get my pearltrees button back in my Firefox toolbar.
    FF version is 33.1 (but it was already the same problem with the two previous versions of FF)
    I’m working on a Mac Book Air (OSX 10.8.2)

    Strangely enough, It always works on my other computer, a windows 7 Unit, with every FF versions we mentionned (the current and previous ones)

    So how can I manage to make it appear on my Mac?
    Thanks in advance

  37. Frocaboy, on November 12th, 2014 at 10:55 am Said:

    Hello Orobene,
    Try to uninstall and reinstall the Pearltrees extension, it should solve the problem. If not, please send us an email at participation@pearltrees.com

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