Tool
Are.na
Channels for collecting and connecting visual research
About
Your content lives in channels—containers that are editable, arrangeable and searchable
Everything on Are.na is findable—search across your channels, your network, and all of Are.na
On Are.na, there's nothing algorithmic steering you into any particular direction.
The content you are exposed to is only based on a network you've intentionally cultivated for yourself, guided by your own internal radar.
Features
- Online software for saving and organizing the content that is important to you
- A toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of the old
- Capture Save photos, notes, files, webpages and anything else you can think of
- Arrange Your content lives in channels—containers that are editable, arrangeable and searchable
- Search Everything on Are.na is findable—search across your channels, your network, and all of Are.na
- Connect Reuse existing content in your own collections, build new contexts over time
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Pricing detail
- free limited; Premium ~/mo
- Platforms
- Web iOS
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