A private library for your visual research.

commonplace^™ keeps the reference images you collect in one place, online, and private to you. Add from anywhere and each image is tagged and catalogued as it arrives, with the work, its maker, its date and much more. Your library is easy to organize and navigate: retrieve images in seconds, discover new connections, and export what you find. Tags can be added or refined at any time, and your projects, ongoing or complete, can retain the references that shaped them.

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What it does

Everything you need to keep references, and nothing you don't.

Add from anywhere

Drag images in, paste them, pick them from your phone, or paste a link to a web page and its main image is added with the link saved as its source.

Tagged as it arrives

Each image gets suggested tags: the work and its maker when they can be identified, the year, colours, materials, type of work and a short research note. You accept what's right, and the suggestions learn from what you keep.

Find it again

Start typing to search titles, notes, sources and tags, and combine tags to narrow down. Or shuffle your library and browse for the unexpected.

Keep your projects

Mark which project an image was used in, so finished and ongoing work keep the references that shaped them.

Export a PDF

Select images and lay them out as a PDF, with titles, tags, notes or sources as captions. Or download them with a list of their tags.

Look closer

Open any image full screen, add notes as you go, and add tag fields of your own: typeface, client, site, whatever your work needs.

Private by design

Your library belongs to you.

Each library is private: only the person who builds it can see it. Nothing is public, and there's no feed.
To tag an image, a copy is sent to the services that recognise it and look for where it appears online. Images aren't shared anywhere else.
You can download everything, with its tags, at any time.
A full privacy policy will be published before sign-ups open.

Plans

Prices are still being worked out. People on the waitlist hear first.

Free

To try it out

A private library
Tag images yourself
Some images tagged automatically each month
Search and projects

Paid For individuals

For your own practice

Everything in Free
Suggestions tailored to your practice
Many more images tagged automatically each month
PDF export

Studio

For teams

Everything in Paid, for each person
A library shared by the team, beside each person's own
Tagging shared across the studio, in the studio's own fields
One bill for the studio

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commonplace is invite-only for now. Leave your email and you'll hear when it opens.