Find and share the places you love. Say hi to foursquare Lists.

Aug 15th

NOTE: We’ll be updating this post with links to all these amazing lists when they are live! Check back later to play with the lists! It’s now live for everyone. Have fun!

You have a list of the places you want to see this summer in New York. And the attractions you recommend to all your friends who visit Greece. And you’re slowly working your way down your friend’s list of restaurants with the best views in the world.

Good news: your list-making powers are about to grow to superhero levels. Over the course of the day, we’re going to be rolling out a new set of features that helps you find and share them all: Lists on foursquare.

Make lists with ease
Putting together lists has always been pretty annoying. How do you share? How do you coordinate? How do you keep it updated? We looked at all these problems and made something that is super easy to use. Here are a few things you’ll notice:

  • On your profile page, we’ve already come up with list ideas from your check-ins, like your favorite Italian restaurants or the best live music venues. You can use those as a starting point.

  • We also made it really fast to build one from scratch – we auto-complete places as you type, and we suggest related places for you, using the same magic that goes into our Explore algorithm.

  • And, if you’re checking out places on foursquare.com or browsing Tips, one click on [+save] and you’ve started a list on the fly.

Package up all your expertise into lists so your friends and the foursquare community can enjoy them. Try building one to see how quick and easy it is.

Lists are better with friends
Just like everything we do at foursquare, Lists are all about sharing with your friends. Want to plan a trip to Paris? Create a blank list and share it with your friends who know the city best. They can load it up with all their best suggestions. Think your buddy will love your list of best food trucks in Los Angeles? It’s simple to share it with him. And, best of all: the lists are alive. If friends later add more places to a list you follow (like the Hipster Coffee Shop Explosion list), you’ll see everything they drop in.

Have a fun time exploring
When we launched Explore (our recommendation system), it was all about helping you discover new things to do in the real world. Lists are all about discovery and exploration, too. On each place, you can now see suggestions of related Lists, so you might see a list of ‘Pancakes across America‘ at the Clinton Street Bakery. Lists are everywhere: see your friends’ best lists when you go to foursquare.com, see all of their lists on their profile page, and, on each Tip, see what Lists it belongs to. Lists connect everything you do on foursquare.

To get us started, a bunch of our partners have put together some lists:

So start packaging your expertise, sharing it with friends, and following those created by the people you love. Create a list of the best brunch spots and you’ll always have fun plans for the weekend. Follow the best golf courses in the world and tick them off, one by one, over the years.

Happy exploring with foursquare, now made better with Lists.

P.S. This is just the start. Pretty soon, there will be even more ways to take Lists with you in our mobile app. In the meantime, in the foursquare app on your phone, all these places will be added to your To-Do List tab, and you’ll see when friends follow the same lists in your Notifications Tray. And there’s more on the horizon. Stay tuned.

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34 Comments

  • http://www.sevendaysvt.com/ Tyler Machado

    Cool! Will all brand pages have the ability to create Lists?

  • http://twitter.com/CraigBowman Craig Bowman

    Very cool idea!  Way to go foursquare.

  • http://www.facebook.com/MorganBarnhart Morgan Barnhart

    LOVE this idea! Kudos, Foursquare! Also gotta give props to having two Texas related lists already made. =)

  • http://twitter.com/AspenSnowmass Aspen/Snowmass

    Awesome! We’re going to get right on this. 

  • http://www.jeremymeyers.com/ Jeremy Meyers

    Two feature requests i’m assuming you’re working on already (cc @dens:twitter 
    1) “This venue belongs to these lists” on venue pages and checkins
    2) “You’ve been to x places on list by [friend/stranger]. Complete the list for a badge/reward/whatever]”

    Great work!

  • http://www.SiliconPrairieNews.com/ Jeff Slobotski

    Solid. Nice work guys!!!

  • http://sproutsocial.com Justyn Howard

    Great work 4SQ team, really exciting possibilities with this enhancement. Will there be an API endpoint to see when your business has been added to a list?
    Justyn

  • Irene

    uh oh this sounds like bad news for scoville

  • http://blog.pierrevalade.com Pierre Valade

    Jeremy, great ideas and already there! live on foursquare.com!

  • ghostrawk foreva

    Cool! Reminds me a lot of why I like Listgeeks: http://listgeeks.com

    Really fun so far! Lists rule!!!

  • Jannetta 963

    спасибо!буду использовать!

  • http://twitter.com/gravebone Ahmed Nazim

    nice 

  • Rizza Guevarra

    nice!

  • http://blog.ilovestyle.be TOM @ ILoveStyle.be

    very nice !
    check my list, top spots in Ghent (Belgium)
    https://foursquare.com/ilovestyle_be/list/ghent-top-spots

  • Gil

    Being a level 1 super user I usually mark venues with a todo to fix later. How do I now remove a todo? Doesn’t seem to be a way via the website anymore.

  • Gil

    Nevermind I found it. Click the + and uncheck the checkbox.

  • Sean

    Yup. Lists are open to all users. 

    -sean from foursquare

  • http://www.itswilder.com David Wilder

    This is going to be great. But I hope listing several tips under a single venue is high up on the ‘to-do’ list. I’m already finding it a bit annoying to see the same venue listed several times within the same list but with multiple tips associated.

  • http://www.itswilder.com David Wilder

    This is going to be great, but I hope listing several tips under a single venue is high up on the ‘to-do’ list. I’m already finding it a bit annoying to see the same venue listed several times within the same list but with multiple tips associated.

  • http://twitter.com/cmcgato CMC
  • http://blog.foursquare.com foursquare

    You can delete it by going to the top of the list and clicking the “X” that shows up next to the Edit button!

  • Charlie

    Been looking on the mobile app…can you edit, or even access, your lists from the app at all? I’d hate to think you have to schlep all the way over to foursquare.com, which is a bit of a drain on my device’s battery.

  • http://blog.pierrevalade.com Pierre Valade

    you will be able to do that soon.

    - pierre from foursquare

  • http://www.keesromkes.nl Kees Romkes

    Awesome job! Thanks!

  • http://joshlloyd.tumblr.com jlloyd

    Excellent idea!! Love it. I’ve already taken advantage of this new feature. 

  • http://twitter.com/philippstoltz Philipp Stoltz

    I love it! But I see error messages when I try to access some of my lists, especially the ones with ä, ö or ü (crazy german letters) in their title…

  • http://twitter.com/philippstoltz Philipp Stoltz

    I love it! But I see error messages when I try to access some of my lists, especially the ones with ä, ö or ü (crazy german letters) in their title…

  • Ian Zacharias

    Great..I’ll try make to map on FB

  • http://www.flavors.me/warmth Daniel @warmth Delgado

    Well done guys but this is an idea “borrowed” from Scoville, isn’t it?

  • Joseph D Raccuglia

    Hey! Love the lists, but I can’t seem to see my custom list on my android app.  Any ideas?

  • http://twitter.com/soulpainter Cristóbal Almanza

    I would to be able to get a feed for specific lists to make google maps to embed in a website. Then users can easily add to their to do lists. Very exciting. Good job Foursquare.

  • http://twitter.com/seocosenza Andrea Infusino

    i liked Justyn Howard request about API, i would like to explore lists by searching it’s name or by location (ie. a list based on best restaurants of Rome, so it will be based on Rome Lat,Lng i suppose!)

  • Yagotit

    All good and dandy… If you are accessing your profile from a computer. How do you do it from your phone? (come one most of us engage in our foursquare lovin on iphones!)

  • http://hanhtrangduhoc.edu.vn/ Du hoc Anh

    It ‘s ok and nice! I use it for along time , that is your great work!