Save Inspiration for a Project

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Every project starts with a burst of ideas, and they all live in a screenshots folder, a notes app, and the browser history. Three weeks later, none of it is findable.

A project Glubler gives the inspiration one home, and unlike a mood board, the links keep working and stay searchable.

This suits anything with a visual or a plan — a room, an outfit, a garden, a celebration, a home reorganisation, a course, a small business.

Create a Project Glubler

1Click Create, then Glubler
2Name it for the thing you are making — Front Room, Autumn outfits
3Save it and start collecting

Name it after the goal, not the category

Front Room is something you will remember in six months. Interiors is a category you will have seven of. One project, one Glubler, is the pattern that works.

Capture in the Moment

The value here is speed. Capture the idea while you still care about it, even if you have not decided whether it belongs.

  1. See something you like
  2. Copy its address
  3. Paste it into the Glubler search bar
  4. Click GLUE and choose your project Glubler

On a computer, the browser extension does this in one click without leaving the page — worth using heavily during a project.

If you already have a pile of saved links, Settings → Data → Import takes them all as a CSV in one go.

Organising by Role

Sort by the job each item does in the project, not by where it came from. This is what makes the list useful later rather than merely pretty.

Category What goes in it
The look Overall references, the ones that set the direction
Colours Palettes you want to come back to
Specific pieces The actual sofa, lamp, paint, or coat
How others did it Case studies, blogs, before and afters
To buy later Saved deliberately, to revisit when you are ready

On a Pro plan:

"Front Room" a Glubler
  • glued: apartmenttherapy.com, contemporist.com
  • "The look" a Subglubler
     • glued: archdaily.com, dezeen.com
  • "Pieces I want" a Subglubler
     • glued: fermliving.com, menu.com
  • "Colours" a Subglubler
     • glued: paintandcolour.com

To add one, open the Glubler, click Create, choose Subglubler, and name it.

Without Pro, use separate Glublers: Front Room - Look, Front Room - Pieces. Unlimited and free.

A Mood Board Subglubler

Glubler gives you a mood board that works offline

A screenshot folder only shows what you remembered to capture, and the images go stale. A mood board Subglubler holds live pages, so six months in you can still open them, and the titles and icons are enough to jog your memory without opening anything.

It is not a replacement for a proper mood board when you need a single image to hand to someone, but it is a much better holding pen for the weeks before the project is real.

Share With Collaborators

Once a project involves other people, a shared collection is far better than a folder of screenshots.

  1. Open the project Glubler, or the relevant Subglubler
  2. Click Share
  3. Send the link — on a phone it opens your sharing menu, on a computer it copies

Handy variations:

If you are working with an AI assistant, MCP can glue a batch of links for you in one go. See Gluing Websites.

Filling the Gaps

When the project stalls, rather than opening ten tabs and losing all of them:

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from a screenshots folder?

Three ways that matter: the links stay live, the titles are searchable, and you can share one link with someone instead of sending a set of images. It is a holding pen that stays usable.

What if the project is finished?

Keep the Glubler and rename it without the year, so it becomes a permanent reference. The next similar project starts from it rather than from nothing.

Should I save things I am not sure about?

Yes. Deciding later is much easier than remembering something you saw once and did not save. A list you prune is better than a list you never built.

Can my partner or family add to it?

Yes. Anyone with an account who follows the collection can add to it, so it works as a genuinely shared project list.

Do I need Pro for the sub-lists?

Subglublers need Pro at $4.32 per month. Top-level Glublers are unlimited and free, so you can run several projects at once without paying.

Will it work on my phone?

Yes. The mobile app runs Glubler itself, so pasting an address and tapping Glue works exactly the same. The browser extension is desktop-only.