Pins comes with extension deep linking support to quickly navigate to collections and channels you want.

This how-to is for advanced use only. Deep link can easily be accessed from the context menus.

Please update to the latest version of Pins. The followings apply to Pins 1.6+ for macOS and Pins 1.7+ for iOS/iPadOS.

All the links below are case-sensitive unless noted otherwise.

Open the Save to Pinboard screen

pins://launch?screen=newPost&title=[title]&description=[description]&tags=[tags]&privacy=[privacy]

All parameters are optional
tags supports multiple tags separated by space
title, description, and tags have to be escaped
privacy has to be public for the bookmark to be public, it’s default to private otherwise

Use this bookmarklet to save a bookmark with Pins if your browser doesn’t support share extension: Save to Pinboard

Open a Default Collection

pins://launch?screen=[collection]

Possible values for collection: all, unread, private, public, tagged, untagged, onThisDay, random

pins://launch?screen=matching&scope=[scope]&query=[query]

Possible values for scope: all, title, description, url, tags, fts
query: Base64-encoded string for the advanced search query. Try decoding some sample smart collections you have to see how this is done.

pins://launch?screen=exact&scope=[scope]&query=[query]

Possible values for scope: all, title, description, url, tags, fts
query: Base64-encoded string for the advanced search query. Try decoding some sample smart collections you have to see how this is done.

pins://launch?screen=[channel]

Possible values for channel: network, popular, wikipedia, fandom, japanese

pins://launch?screen=username&username=[username]

pins://launch?screen=tag&tag=[tag]