# How to pin important ChatGPT messages > Pin the ChatGPT answers you want to keep with Kortex. Select the words, click Pin, and find every pin again in your Library, with ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. https://www.kortex-notebooklm.com/tutorials/how-to-pin-important-chatgpt-messages 1. [Tutorials](/tutorials) 2. How to pin important ChatGPT messages # How to pin important ChatGPT messages 1 minute 5 steps Updated November 10, 2026 ## Quick answer Install Kortex and open a ChatGPT chat. Select the words you want to keep in an answer and click Pin in the small bar that appears. The passage is saved with the chat. Find it in the Kortex tab, or in the Library's Pinned view with every other pin. ## Watch it first How to pin important ChatGPT messages Read the transcript Here's how to pin the ChatGPT answers you want to keep with Kortex, and find every pin again in your Library. Open the chat in ChatGPT, and select the words you want to keep in an answer. A small bar appears above them, with three buttons: Pin, Highlight and Remember. Click Pin. It keeps the passage with the chat. Pin works the same on Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok. Then click the small Kortex tab on the right edge of the page. Your pins sit under Pinned, each with a note you can add. Under What you asked, click a question to jump to it, or pin its answer. To see every pin, open the Library from the side panel's Chats tab, and click Pinned in the left column. It lists every message you pinned, in every chat, with your note on it. Click one to open the chat at that answer. When you choose Continue in another AI on a chat, your pins go into the handoff pack. That way, the answers you marked are the ones the next AI sees. Your pins are stored on your computer, with the rest of your Library. ## What you need - The [Kortex extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kortex/hdapplggdhndkblofffknpmnnnnbncbn) in Chrome, Edge or Brave, and signed in - Saving turned on: you clicked Keep my chats in my Library when Kortex asked - A ChatGPT chat with an answer worth keeping ## On this page 1. [Select the words in the answer](#step-1) 2. [Click Pin](#step-2) 3. [Open the Kortex tab to see your pins](#step-3) 4. [Find every pin in the Library](#step-4) 5. [Let your pins travel with the chat](#step-5) 6. [If it doesn’t work](#trouble) 7. [Questions](#faq) 1. ## Select the words in the answer Open the chat in ChatGPT and select the words you want to keep in an answer. A small bar appears above them with three buttons: **Pin**, **Highlight** and **Remember**. [![Selected words in an AI's answer about a bus between two palaces, with a small dark bar above them holding the buttons Pin, Highlight and Remember.](/images/library/selection.webp)](/images/library/selection.webp) Select text in any answer to pin, highlight or remember it. 2. ## Click Pin **Pin** keeps the passage with the chat. It works the same on Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok. 3. ## Open the Kortex tab to see your pins Click the small Kortex tab on the right edge of the page. Your pins sit under **Pinned**, each with a note you can add. Under **What you asked**, click a question to jump to it, or pin its answer. [![The Kortex tab beside a ChatGPT chat. A Pinned section shows one pinned answer with the note The version we send to the board, and an Edit note link.](/images/library/kortex-tab.webp)](/images/library/kortex-tab.webp) The Kortex tab keeps your note, pins and related chats next to the chat. 4. ## Find every pin in the Library Open the Library from the side panel's **Chats** tab and click **Pinned** in the left column. It lists every message you pinned, in every chat, with your note on it. Click one to open the chat at that answer. [![The Library's left column listing its views: All chats, Videos, Folders, Prompts, Timeline, Pinned, Highlights, Notes, Memory, Asked twice, Archive and Privacy.](/images/library/all-chats.webp)](/images/library/all-chats.webp) All chats lists every saved chat by day. Open one to read it in full beside the list. 5. ## Let your pins travel with the chat When you choose **Continue in another AI…** on a chat, your pins go into the handoff pack. A folder's project pack carries its pins too. That way the answers you marked are the ones the next AI sees. ## If it doesn’t work The bar with Pin does not appear Select words inside an AI's answer, then wait a moment. If nothing shows, reload the page once and select again. Kortex works on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok. I cannot find my pin in the Library Open the Pinned view and look for the chat's title. A chat you archived leaves every view except Archive, so check there too. A pin always stays with its chat. I pinned the wrong passage Open the Kortex tab on the chat. Your pinned passage is listed there, and you can remove it from that list. ## Questions people ask Something we missed? [Ask us](#contact). ### What is the difference between Pin, Highlight and Remember? Pin keeps a passage with the chat. Highlight marks it in a colour on the page. Remember adds it to your Kortex Memory as a fact about you. See [how to highlight ChatGPT answers](/tutorials/how-to-highlight-and-annotate-chatgpt-answers). ### Can I add a note to a pin? Yes. Every pinned answer in the Kortex tab has an Edit note link. The note shows with the pin in the Library's Pinned view. ### Where are my pins stored? On your computer, with the rest of your Library, in a database inside Chrome. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you send it. ### Can I pin messages in Claude or Gemini too? Yes. The Pin bar and the Pinned view cover every chat the Library saves, from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok. ## Keep going [Chat Library Keep your AI chats on your computer and search them, next to your YouTube videos and notebooks.](/features#organize) [Kortex docs The full reference for this feature, with every option.](/docs/chat-library) ### More tutorials - [How to add notes to ChatGPT conversations](/tutorials/how-to-add-notes-to-chatgpt-conversations) - [How to highlight and annotate ChatGPT answers](/tutorials/how-to-highlight-and-annotate-chatgpt-answers) - [How to highlight and annotate sources in NotebookLM](/tutorials/how-to-highlight-and-annotate-notebooklm-sources) - [How to add YouTube videos and playlists to NotebookLM](/tutorials/how-to-add-youtube-videos-to-notebooklm) [All tutorials](/tutorials) ## Do it on your own notebooks. Install the Kortex extension and follow these steps on a notebook you already have. 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