Yesterday a small build landed in r/ChatGPTPromptGenius, and it fixes something that bugs anyone who lives in long chats. It’s a Chrome extension called GPT-Pin, made by u/RadMonster3. You can pin and bookmark important messages inside a ChatGPT conversation, then jump straight back to them without scrolling through the whole thread.
What’s new
ChatGPT doesn’t have a built-in way to pin a message inside a chat. If the answer you need is 80 messages up, you scroll and squint. Maybe you remember it was somewhere after the part where you changed the tone, but before the part where you asked for a shorter version. So you scroll up, overshoot, scroll down, overshoot again, and lose a few minutes you will never get back. Multiply that by every long chat you keep alive for days or weeks, and it adds up fast.
GPT-Pin adds the missing piece as a browser extension. Instead of treating a conversation like a long scroll, you can mark the messages that matter and treat them like bookmarks. That’s a small shift, but it changes how you can use ChatGPT for bigger projects. A long chat stops being a pile of text and starts being a workspace with landmarks you can return to.
The twist
The tool is simple. The post around it is what makes it interesting. The maker has 20 users and says so openly. No inflated numbers, no “revolutionary” pitch. They’re asking for honest feedback: what works, what sucks, what to improve. They also ask how other people got their first users for a small project or extension. That’s a builder showing up with a working thing and asking for a real review.
Also worth knowing: everything is stored locally, so your pins stay on your machine. For a lot of people that’s a real plus. Your pinned messages might include client details, half-finished drafts, or business ideas you’d rather not send to yet another server. Local storage keeps that simple. The flip side is that pins likely won’t follow you to another browser or computer, so keep that in mind if you switch devices often.
Mini-workflow 📌
- Install GPT-Pin from the Chrome Web Store (link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gpt-pin-pin-bookmark-impo/aojaicnepkbfcafemkhcnkghhbcehngj). It takes under a minute, and you can pin the extension to your toolbar so it’s easy to find.
- Open one of your long ChatGPT conversations, the kind you keep coming back to. A research thread, a coding session, a content plan, or a long brainstorm are all good candidates.
- Pin the messages you’ll want again, like a final answer or a prompt that finally worked. Don’t pin everything. If every message is pinned, none of them stand out.
- Next time, use the pins to jump straight to them instead of scrolling. 🚀
- Every so often, clean up. Once a project wraps, remove the pins you no longer need so your list stays useful.
Pro tips
- Pin the version of a prompt that worked, not the five drafts before it. Your future self will thank you.
- Pin decisions and final outputs. The back-and-forth in between rarely needs a second visit.
- Use pins as a table of contents for a big project. Pin the outline, the key decision, the final draft, and the open questions. When you come back after a weekend, you can rebuild your context in about thirty seconds.
- Pin reusable snippets, like a tone-of-voice instruction or a formatting template, so you can grab them without hunting.
- Since it’s a young extension with a small user base, test it on a chat you can afford to mess with before you lean on it for client work. Also keep a copy of anything truly critical outside the extension.
Why I’m flagging it
Tiny tools like this are often where the useful stuff comes from. Big platforms take years to add features that one person can ship in a weekend. The maker is asking for exactly the kind of feedback that makes them better, and you get a quick fix for a daily annoyance. If you’ve ever grown a small project or extension, the thread is also a good place to share how you got your first users. Even one concrete tip, like where you posted or what first message worked, can help a solo builder more than a dozen generic replies.
Give GPT-Pin a spin, then go tell u/RadMonster3 what you think in the thread. Specific feedback beats a vague ‘nice’ every time. Say what you pinned, what felt smooth, and what you wish it did. 🏴☠️💬
made a simple extension to pin messages in chatgpt inside of a chat, looking for honest feedback and how to actually get users
by u/RadMonster3 in ChatGPTPromptGenius