Most moodboards don't start on a canvas. They start on Pinterest.
That isn't a complaint. Pinterest is very good at the part it does. You find things, you pin them, they pile up in one place, and months of collecting sit in a single grid you can scroll through. For as long as you're only collecting, the grid is enough.
The trouble starts the moment you want to think with what you've collected. A Pinterest board sorts itself. You can't put two pins next to each other because they argue, or push one into the corner because you're not sure about it yet, or draw a line between three of them and write a word beside the line. The board holds your references and won't let you arrange them.
Import, not embed
The obvious move would have been an embed — a live Pinterest board in a frame on the canvas. We didn't do that, and the reason matters more than it looks. An embedded board is still Pinterest's grid, just rendered inside Oppalin. You'd be looking at your references through a window instead of putting them on a wall.
So the import copies. Each pin becomes an ordinary image on your canvas, the same kind of object you get when you drag a file in. Move it, scale it, put a rectangle around it, delete the eleven you've gone off. Once it's imported, nothing about it is a pin anymore. It's a picture on a wall.
How it works
There's a pin icon in the dock, or press P. Paste a public board URL, hit Import. That's the whole interface.
Behind it, we resolve the board and then pull it page by page. Images land on the canvas as they arrive, each one dropped into the shortest of four columns, so a stream of tall and short pins tiles cleanly instead of stacking into a ragged line. The progress bar is real: it counts imported against total rather than spinning while pretending to know something.
Big boards are the normal case here, not the edge case — a few hundred pins is ordinary. So the import runs as a background job on our side rather than in your tab. Close the modal and it keeps going. A pin that fails to download gets skipped instead of taking the rest of the import with it. If Pinterest hiccups mid-run, we back off and retry instead of giving up. And if a pin's original file is larger than your plan's per-image limit, we fall back to a smaller render of the same image rather than dropping it without a word.
What it costs
Imported images live in your storage like any other upload, so they count against your quota. Free accounts import up to 30 pins per board; Pro goes to 1,000. Thirty is enough to find out whether this belongs in the way you work. If it does, the ceiling moves.
What it doesn't do
It doesn't sync. An import is a snapshot — pin something new on Pinterest tomorrow and it won't turn up on your canvas. That's deliberate, at least for now. A wall that rearranges itself while you're not looking isn't a wall. It's a feed again.
Board sections aren't crawled yet, and importing the same board twice will give you two of everything. Both are on the list.
Paste a board. Move things around. See what it says.