Founder of Tote
Chris builds Tote, an iPhone app for saving screenshots, links, and finds from apps like TikTok, Instagram, and Safari. He writes here about saving TikTok videos, organizing screenshots, trip planning from social posts, and the messy ways people actually collect recipes, places, and product ideas on their phones.
Outside of building Tote, Chris spends most of his time hiking, taking photos, and testing whether save workflows hold up on the trail. He also writes Chris Wanders and shares photos and videos as @chrisgoesoutside.
Practical guides for saving and organizing things on iPhone.
XO, Kitty Season 3 pulled 12.9 million views in four days and hit number one in over 70 countries. The show generates outfit-ID videos, Seoul cafe guides, filming-location maps, and K-beauty hauls across every app at once. This guide covers how to keep those saves organized.
Pinterest searches for garden inspiration are up 940% in the Spring 2026 Trend Report, and balcony, front porch, and container garden saves live across four or five apps at once. This guide covers where outdoor project inspo actually lives and how to save it so your weekend plans do not stall at the nursery.
Corporate bohème is the 2026 office aesthetic taking over work GRWMs and runway carousels — softer boho meeting relaxed tailoring. This guide covers where the inspo lives and how to save it across TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, and Safari so you can actually build outfits.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 hits theaters May 1, and the press tour is already flooding every app with outfit content. This guide covers how to save press tour looks, Andy Sachs costume details, and TikTok recreation videos across every app.
Sustainable swap recommendations come from TikTok reviews, Instagram carousels, Pinterest boards, and friend texts. This guide covers what is trending for Earth Day 2026 and how to organize your research so you actually follow through.
Festival dining research pulls from more sources than any other kind of restaurant planning. This guide covers the 2026 food lineup, off-grounds restaurants, and how to organize saves so your group can actually find that taco spot when you are hungry.
Spring travel outfit research pulls from TikTok GRWMs, Instagram capsule wardrobe carousels, Pinterest boards, and product pages. This guide covers how to save and organize packing inspiration so you can actually build outfits instead of scrolling five apps the night before you leave.
Butter yellow, Neo Deco, and reading nooks are defining spring 2026 decor. This guide covers how to organize room inspo from Pinterest boards, TikTok room tours, Instagram Reels, and product pages so you can actually compare ideas and make decisions.
Gift research for Mother’s Day pulls from TikTok hauls, Instagram carousels, Wirecutter guides, Etsy pages, and group chat screenshots. This guide covers how to keep your ideas organized so you can compare, coordinate with siblings, and actually decide.
Eight weeks of new Euphoria looks means eight weeks of tutorials, outfit IDs, and product links scattered across every app. This guide covers how to keep your recreation references organized by character or episode.
Concert prep for ARMY pulls from every app at once. This guide covers how to get your outfit ideas, merch finds, travel details, and fan content organized before the Arirang tour hits your city.
Festival outfit planning pulls from every app at once. This guide covers how to get your Coachella looks organized so you can plan by day instead of jumping between five saved folders.
Instagram does not give you a map view of your saved Reels. This guide covers how to get those place finds out of your bookmarks and onto an actual map.
By July, your summer trip research is spread across five apps. This guide covers how to pull those saves together, sort the real contenders, and plan from the full set instead of whatever you can find in the moment.
Most spring cleaning guides say delete everything. But your saves are not junk — they are just disorganized. This guide covers a triage-based approach that keeps the useful stuff and clears the noise.
Instagram collections are a start, but they have no search and saves vanish when creators delete posts. This guide covers every option plus a mobile-first workflow that actually sticks.
If your wedding inspo is split across Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, screenshots, and notes, this guide shows how to organize it without rebuilding your whole system.
Instagram and TikTok are great at surfacing outfit ideas. Retrieving them later is the broken part. This guide covers every save method and a workflow that keeps your style finds organized.
Most bookmark managers save URLs. But on iPhone, half of what you want to bookmark is a screenshot, a social post, or a photo. The right app depends on what you are actually saving.
Not every Pocket user used it the same way. The right replacement depends on whether your real habit was reading articles, saving bookmarks, or hoarding links you never opened.
Instagram bookmarks have no search, downloads strip the audio, and screen recordings are unwieldy. This guide covers every save method and a workflow that keeps your Reel finds organized.
TikTok is great at surfacing finds but bad at helping you retrieve them later. This guide covers the real options and a workflow that keeps your saves useful.
If your place ideas live across Reels, screenshots, group chats, and Safari tabs, this guide shows how to capture them cleanly before they turn into a real shortlist.
If place ideas reach your iPhone through social posts, screenshots, maps, and links, this comparison sorts out which apps are best for capture, which are best for maps, and which are best for planning.
Trip planning usually starts as fragments scattered across your phone. This guide shows how to turn those saves into a shortlist before the itinerary gets formal.
The best trip planning app depends on whether your problem is itinerary building, booking organization, saved places, or messy travel research from screenshots and social posts.
If your recipe backlog lives in TikTok saves, Instagram posts, screenshots, and Safari tabs on iPhone, this guide compares the best recipe apps that can actually turn those messy inputs into something usable.
If your camera roll has turned into a holding pen for receipts, recipes, places, and random ideas, this guide shows a cleaner workflow for keeping the useful screenshots and finding them later.
The hard part is rarely finding something good. It is keeping the link, post, or page in a way that still makes sense two weeks later. This guide covers a better save workflow.
The Action Button becomes much more useful when it is tied to a real capture habit. Here is how to use it to save things before they disappear from your screen.