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Pinning keeps a scrap at the top of the board so it's easy to find again. Pinned scraps wear a small pin badge, appear under the Pinned filter, and can't be deleted by the curtain's two-finger tap.

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Pin or unpin from the card's lifetime/pin menu or from the preview. Unpin drops the scrap back into the normal order. Pinning is about order, not lifetime — the scrap still clears on its timer. See Does pinning stop a scrap from clearing?

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Junk Yard · Auto-clear, pins and deleting

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What does pinning a scrap do in the Junk Yard?

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Short answer: Pinning keeps a scrap at the top of the board with a pin badge, under the Pinned filter, and protects it from the curtain's two-finger-tap delete. It still clears on its normal timer.

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Pinning keeps a scrap at the top of the board so it's easy to find again. Pinned scraps wear a small pin badge, appear under the Pinned filter, and can't be deleted by the curtain's two-finger tap.

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Pin or unpin from the card's lifetime/pin menu or from the preview. Unpin drops the scrap back into the normal order. Pinning is about order, not lifetime — the scrap still clears on its timer. See Does pinning stop a scrap from clearing?

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