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Pinned Notes

Tutorial · About 3 min

Every chat with your AI starts the same way: the AI knows what's in its context window, and nothing else. Pinned notes let you decide what's always in it. Watch the video or follow along below.

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Pinned Notes — Pane

1. Pin a note

Note editor toolbar with the pin icon highlighted

Take any note in your project. In the note menu, hit the pin. That's it. From now on, this note goes to your AI with every single message in the project. Same treatment as your project brief and your agent's memory. The AI never works without it.

2. See what's pinned

Project settings showing Project Brief and Pinned to Context section with three pinned notes and token counts

You can see everything that's pinned in project settings. Right-click the project name to get there. Each pinned note shows its token count so you know exactly how much context you're using. Click any pinned note and it takes you straight to it.

3. What to pin

Pinned to Context section showing Pane Positioning, Ideal Customer Profile, and Distribution Channels with 1,977 total tokens

Pin the documents your AI should never be missing. The project overview. The strategy. A directory of what lives where. For client work, the kickoff note with scope and deadlines. Keep a pinned overview in every serious project, and you'll never open a session by re-explaining what you're doing.

4. Living documents

Pinned note open in the editor showing editable content with Core Position, The Wedge, and Pane vs Competitors sections

Here's the part that makes this better than anything like it. A pinned note is still a note. You can edit it. Your AI can edit it. When the strategy changes, you don't re-upload a document or rewrite a system prompt — you change the note, and every message after that carries the new version. Your AI's standing orders evolve with the project.

Pin the essentials. Update them as you go. Your AI always knows where it stands.

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