Pool’s new app turns your screenshots into something useful
Key takeaways
- For years, your phone s Camera Roll has served dual purposes.
- To get started with Pool, you simply give it permission to access your photos, which are moved into categories it calls pools.
- Once imported, Pool is able to track down the original link associated with a given screenshot.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
For years, your phone s Camera Roll has served dual purposes. In addition to helping you revisit special moments, it has also served as an archive for all sorts of things you find online, like recipes, fashion inspiration, travel ideas, interesting quotes, funny tweets, product recommendations, and more. Today, a new app called Pool is arriving to help you finally make sense of this digital clutter.
To get started with Pool, you simply give it permission to access your photos, which are moved into categories it calls pools. The pools created in the app are entirely dependent on the products, places, or things that you ve saved over time, making them specific to you.
The app is one of many reinventing bookmarking in the AI era. Startups like mymind, Fabric, and Raindrop help users organize links, images, or other saved content, but Pool focuses specifically on screenshots and then uses AI to help users rediscover and act on things they intended to revisit later.