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Save products from Pinterest or Cosmos
Keep Pinterest or Cosmos for inspiration. Save the product into Aalto with name, price at save, specs, and source together so the next review needs fewer follow-ups.
You save a chair on Pinterest. You pin a sofa on Cosmos. The image is easy to find later. The product behind it is not.
The pin has a picture. It may have a loose link. The price lives on a supplier page you closed. The finish you liked is in a comment or in your head.
This guide is a how-to. Keep Pinterest or Cosmos for inspiration. Save the product into Aalto. Keep the name, the price at save, the specs, and the source together.
This is not a replacement for organising boards on Pinterest. Those tools stay where mood and reference live. Aalto holds the product record you reuse.
Why inspiration and product records drift apart
Inspiration tools are built for pictures. You collect rooms, finishes, and objects you like. That is useful.
The trouble starts when the pin has to become a spec. Someone asks which chair. Someone asks the maker. Someone asks what it cost when you found it. You open five tabs to rebuild a fact you already had.
What to capture when you save
- Product name
- Supplier or maker
- Price visible at the time
- Specs visible at the time
- Source URL from the supplier page, not only the pin
- Project
- Room or area
- A short note about why it made the shortlist
The price is captured at save. You can rescrape prices on demand when you need current ones. Prices do not auto-update in the background.
A simple save workflow
- Start from a pin or a Cosmos save you actually want to specify.
- Open the supplier page the inspiration points to.
- Save into Aalto while that page is open.
- Add project and room context.
- Add one useful note.
- Keep the pin where it is. Use Aalto when you need the product again.
Five considered saves beat a board of fifty images with no source.
Visual workspace and reuse
Aalto is a visual workspace. Store products across many projects or for future ones. Add a product once. Reuse it easily across jobs.
Try it
Pick five pins or Cosmos saves from a live project. Save each product into Aalto with price, specs, and source at save.
Frequently asked questions
Does Aalto keep prices live?
No. It stores the price when you save. You can rescrape on demand when you need a current price. It does not continuously auto-update in the background.
Should I stop using Pinterest or Cosmos?
No. Keep them for inspiration. Move the product record into Aalto when you want to specify, reuse or hand off.
Is this the same as organising Pinterest boards in Aalto?
No. That is a different page. This one is only the save how-to.