Pins

A pin puts an existing node within reach on another canvas. It is a placement of the same item: its title, colour and picture follow the target. You choose where the pin sits and how large that placement is.

For example, keep a pin to a shared gardening discussion beside your planting notes. Zoom into the pin to enter that discussion. Moving the pin among your notes does not move the discussion or rearrange what is inside it.

Pin a search result#

1. Open the canvas where you want the pin.
2. Type at least two characters in the search bar and pause for its dropdown.
3. Find the public node you want.
4. Choose its Pin here icon, or drag the result onto the canvas.

The icon's tooltip names the action. Pin here places the result near the centre of the current view, finding room around other nodes. Dragging lets you choose the area yourself. You still need permission to add to the destination canvas.

Choose a result's title to travel into that node. Pinning is a separate action beside the title. See Search and Go for the search bar.

Copy a node to another canvas#

You can also make a placement without finding it again in search:

1. Right-click the node and choose Copy node.
2. Go to the canvas where you want to place it.
3. Keep focus out of text fields and paste with Command+V or Ctrl+V.

The canvas recognises a Glob Social node link and makes a pin to that node. Copy link can supply the same kind of node address. If you copy a pin, Copy node copies its target, so you get another route to the item itself.

Your own live node can be placed on another unshared canvas in your own home even before you share it. If you try to place that private node somewhere others can read, the notice says That node is private. Share it first, so everyone here can open it. Choose Share it to open the sharing controls. Making a pin is not itself an agreement to publish the target.

For someone else's node, the target must be public, available and settled. Nexus catalogue work can also be pinned. You cannot pin a pin as a separate target or pin an entire dimension. Pins count towards the destination canvas's node limit.

If that node is already on this canvas, pasting says That node is already on this canvas. Find the existing placement and move it if you need to change its position.

Enter and arrange a pin#

Zoom into the pin as you would an ordinary node. Its door opens the target's inside, where the target's rules decide what you can do. Use the upper-left logo and its depth rings to return.

A pin to a free Pixl shows the art but does not open another canvas. See the Pixl guide for pictures and their placements.

You can move and connect pins on your canvas. Resizing a plain pin changes this placement's size, leaving the target's other placements alone. Drawing a link from one of your notes to a pin adds a relationship on this canvas; it does not add anything inside the target.

If you own the target, changing its text, colour or picture through a placement changes the item itself and appears in its other placements. A placement of somebody else's node does not give you permission to edit their item.

Recognise changes and closed doors#

A ring around a pin means Updated since you last looked. Entering the target marks the version you looked at as seen. The seen marker follows your account, so several pins to that target can share the same baseline.

Most live targets show no state badge. These badges describe other states:

A closed door hides the target's title and uses Pinned node. Moving or copying that placement does not restore access. If a paste says the node is brand new and still settling, wait and try again. If it says the target is private, withdrawn, under review or removed, use another available node or ask its owner for an accessible share.

Remove or duplicate#

Use Delete on the pin's menu to remove that placement. Its target remains where it was. Keyboard deletion of a selection asks for confirmation; see Nodes and the canvas.

Duplicate has a different purpose. For an ordinary node, kept note or pin to one of those items, it creates a new independent node beside the source, copying the item's current title, body, link, tags and colour. It also copies the picture if you may place that picture; otherwise the duplicate keeps its colour. A pin duplicates the item it points to. Later edits to an independent duplicate do not feed back into the original.

Use a pin when you want the same item in reach. Use Duplicate when you want to develop your own separate version.