See also our Welcome to PandaWhale page.

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1. What is PandaWhale?

PandaWhale is software for saving and organizing great stuff on the open, public Web.

Here is the (brief) story of PandaWhale.

More importantly, PandaWhale is a community of people.

People who create stashes of things we find on Twitter, Facebook, and the Web.

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2. What's a stash?

A stash is a public collection of posts around a common interest.

Each stash is owned by a PandaWhale user, and only that user can add to the stash.

You can change a stash name by clicking on it.

You can add a post to as many of your stashes as you like.

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3. What's a post?

A post begins with a link, a title, an optional image or video, and a first comment.

Anyone can add additional comments. You can delete any comments in a post you start.

Every post belongs to at least one stash.

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4. How do I stash a post?

There are three different ways to stash a post:

A. Install the PandaWhale browser extension.

To stash from Twitter or any website, highlight text on a page and then click the browser extension -- and then select an IMAGE or VIDEO if appropriate. The highlighted text will be included, along with a LINK to the source.

B. Or, go to Stash a Web Page, give it the address of a Web Page to save, and press the Stash! button.

C. Alternatively, for an already-stashed convo, press the orange Stash! button and choose your very own stash to save it to.

Easy as A-B-C !!

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5. What does the Props button do?

PandaWhale people can give Props to any comment to show respect to the commenter.

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6. What does the Follow button do?

When you follow a stash, you get notified every time a post is added to that stash.

You can unfollow a stash at any time to stop receiving those notifications.

You can also change any notification settings at the bottom of the settings page.

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7. Why can't I follow a person?

Because we believe in following only what you're interested in.

If you want to follow every post a person stashes, follow all of her or his stashes.

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8. What does the Read It Later button do?

If you want to save a post to go back to later, hit the Read It Later button.

Read It Later lists are public but the button does not trigger notifications.

By comparison, if you stash the post it appears publicly below that post.

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9. Any tips for PandaWhale power users?

Yes! Click here for PandaWhale power user tips.

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10. And where did the name PandaWhale come from?

We named PandaWhale after two types of people: whales produce, pandas consume.

Whales are our biggest users. They create new posts and add to stashes.

Pandas far outnumber the whales by over 99-to-1. Pandas are our silent but avid readers. They spend their time searching and consuming, just like real pandas.

Many people are pandas, some people are whales, and some people are both.

PandaWhale was built to appeal to both pandas and whales.

Whales produce a lot, pandas consume a lot.

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See also our Welcome to PandaWhale page.

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7. Why do I have to add comments to stash? :)

Comments are more useful for searching, so you (and others) can find things later.

If it really displeases you, a one-word comment like "LOL" or "Sweet" will do. :)

At last! I missed the official Pandawhale FAQs (well, the old 106 ones:)

Happy to help answer the questions; lemme know.

New PandaWhale feature: Read It Later ... What do you think?

Adam, couldn't you be both a Panda and a Whale? Creating new convos and adding to stashes - curating - is awesome, but so is avidly reading and lurking. Or are there only two distinct types of people?

They're not mutually exclusive.

Some people have both panda and whale behaviors.

At least 99% of our community is read-only, and that hasn't changed as we've grown.

Who knew? I'm a panda too!

I'd like to think we all have some pandic behaviors.

That's the consumer within. :)

We have added an about PandaWhale page. Enjoy...

Now go back to the PandaWhale home page, please. ;)