If your best ChatGPT replies keep getting lost, this pin trick will change your life

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If your best ChatGPT replies keep getting lost, this pin trick will change your life How Tos By Graham Barlow published 9 January 2026

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OpenAI recently added pinned conversations to ChatGPT, but there’s still no way to pin individual responses — which is a problem if you use ChatGPT for anything more than quick questions. The most useful replies often get buried as the conversation continues, and finding them again later is harder than it should be.

ChatGPT has a habit of asking clarifying questions before finally delivering a genuinely insightful response. That’s great, until you keep chatting and that key reply disappears up the thread. Scrolling quickly becomes unmanageable, and the search tool isn’t reliable enough to save you.

Luckily, there’s a simple workaround. With a short text prompt, you can effectively “pin” any ChatGPT response, give it a label and timestamp, and come back to it later — or even download it as a PDF.

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How to pin individual ChatGPT responses

Here’s what I do.

Once ChatGPT has given you a response you think you’ll want to revisit, just type something like:

“Put a pin in that last response, give it the name ‘xxx' and add a time and date stamp.”

(Obviously, you can use whatever code word or label makes sense to you instead of “xxx”)

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ChatGPT might take a moment to process this, but it will do it. After that, you can ask at any time:

“Show me the pinned responses in this conversation.”

ChatGPT will then bring up a list of everything you’ve pinned. From there, you can revisit a specific response or even ask ChatGPT to download it as a PDF, which is handy if you want to store it somewhere safe for later. Sometimes I've found that it will give you a PDF download option automatically, but if it doesn't then just type in:"Download that pinned note as a PDF"

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You’ve now got a neat little library of your best ChatGPT responses at your fingertips. It still seems strange to me that there’s no built-in way to pin individual replies, but until there is, this workaround has served me well, and hopefully it will work for you too.

It’s a small trick, but if you rely on ChatGPT for work, it can save you a lot of time and frustration.

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Graham is the Senior Editor for AI at TechRadar. With over 25 years of experience in both online and print journalism, Graham has worked for various market-leading tech brands including Computeractive, PC Pro, iMore, MacFormat, Mac|Life, Maximum PC, and more. He specializes in reporting on everything to do with AI and has appeared on BBC TV shows like BBC One Breakfast and on Radio 4 commenting on the latest trends in tech. Graham has an honors degree in Computer Science and spends his spare time podcasting and blogging.

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