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If you're the kind of person who collects things, this one's for you

Some people put pins in a map of everywhere they've been. Some people keep the Starbucks mug from every city. Some people have the actual National Parks passport book, the one you get stamped at the ranger station.

If that is you, I made something you're going to like.

Pond Passport is a collection of every place you've been, built right into YourPond. Cities, states, countries, continents, landmarks, wonders, national parks, even stadiums. Each one is its own little illustrated stamp, and you collect them.

Here is the part that makes it different from a shelf of mugs. You don't have to do anything to fill it. You already log moments in YourPond - dinners, trips, weekends - and every moment quietly collects the place it happened. Log one in Paris and you collect Paris, and France, and Europe, all the way up. The book was already full the day we shipped it, with places you'd forgotten you'd been.

The ones you go looking for, you collect yourself. Open the Eiffel Tower, or the Colosseum, or a national park you've hiked, and tap "I've been here." That tap collects the city and country around it too.

And it's genuinely fun to click around. Open a city or a state or a country and you see everything there is to collect there - the stuff you've got, and the stuff still waiting. It turns out that is a really good way to plan the next trip. You open Japan, you see Tokyo sitting there uncollected, and now you kind of want to go.

Pond Passport is free, and it's in the YourPond app for iPhone. Go see how much you've already collected.

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