Tacks, Stacks & Discover: What’s the Difference?

Tackologie is built around three simple ideas: Tacks, Stacks and Discover.

Once you know the difference, everything else makes a lot more sense.

A Tack is one thing worth saving

A Tack starts with something you find interesting.

It might be:

• an article
• a recipe
• a maker
• a room
• a project
• a shop
• an interview
• a film review
• a clever business idea
• a beautiful object
• something you don’t even have a category for yet

A Tack keeps the visual reminder together with the source so you can find your way back.

Think of it as:

“I don’t want to lose this.”

A Stack is a collection you make

Stacks are how you organize your Tacks.

You can make a Stack around practically anything:

Things I Want to Make
Tiny Gardens
Beautiful Packaging
Movies to Watch
Warm, Collected Kitchens
Interesting People Doing Interesting Things

Stacks don’t have to follow Tackologie’s categories. They’re yours.

One Tack can also make sense in more than one part of your life, so your Stacks can be as practical, specific or wonderfully random as you want them to be.

Think of a Stack as:

“These things belong together for me.”

Discover is where you find things you weren’t looking for

Discover is Tackologie’s curated browsing space.

It’s where you can wander through interesting things other people have made, written, photographed, collected, cooked, restored, designed and discovered around the web.

You don’t have to arrive with a search term.

Sometimes the point is simply to see what catches you.

Think of Discover as:

“Show me something good.”

And they work together

You might spot something in Discover and save it as a Tack.

Then you might add that Tack to a Stack.

Later, one Tack in that Stack might lead you back to the original source — where you discover something else entirely.

That’s the basic Tackologie loop:

Discover → Tack → Stack → Explore.

Less noise. No dead ends.