How to get the most from your account
Most people use a fraction of what their account can do, usually because the useful parts are not the ones you trip over on your first visit. Here are the ones worth ten minutes of your time.
Save things properly
Saving is not just a bookmark. Anything you save stays in your account across devices, so something you found on your phone is waiting on your laptop later. It is the single most useful habit to build early.
- Save as you browse rather than trying to remember later — you will not remember later.
- Review your saved items occasionally and clear out what is no longer relevant.
- Use saved items as a shortlist when you are comparing several things at once.
Let the site tell you things
Notifications have a bad reputation because most sites send too many. The setting worth turning on is the one that tells you when something you actually care about changes — and the ones worth turning off are everything else.
A sensible default
- On: anything involving a direct message or a reply to you.
- On: updates to something you have saved or followed.
- Off: general activity that has nothing to do with you.
Keep your account secure
None of this is exotic, and all of it matters:
- Use a password you do not use anywhere else.
- Sign out on devices that are not yours.
- If a message asks you to confirm your password by email, treat it as suspicious — we will never ask you to do that.
Little things that add up
Keep your contact details current, so replies reach you. Add detail to your page as you go rather than in one sitting. And if you find yourself repeating an action, check whether there is a setting for it — there usually is.
The accounts that work best are not the most elaborate ones. They are the ones that are kept up to date.