# Pin to screen

Pin a capture to your screen as a small floating window that stays on top of
everything else — handy as a reference while you work in another app.

## How to pin

1. Finish editing your screenshot
2. Click the **pin** button — the last button in the export pane (the bar on
   the editor's left edge), below a divider
3. The pinned image appears centered on your main screen

The pin is the whole artboard, annotations included, rendered as a PNG. It
always pins at 100% — the export pane's scale and resolution settings don't
apply — and opens at its actual on-screen size (1:1 with your display), shrunk
to fit if it would cover more than 80% of the screen.

## Hover controls

The pin is just the image until you hover over it. Then its controls appear:

| Control | Where | What it does |
|---------|-------|--------------|
| **Close** | Top-right corner | Removes the pin |
| **Copy** | Bar on the left edge | Copies the image to the clipboard |
| **Drag** | Bar on the left edge | Press and drag the image into another app |
| **Lock / Unlock** | Bar on the left edge | Locks the pin in place (see below) |
| **Scale** | Pill at the bottom | Shows the current size as a percentage of the original |

Very small pins hide the left bar and the scale pill so they don't cover the
image.

## Moving and resizing

- **Move** — Drag anywhere on the image
- **Resize on macOS** — Drag any edge or corner. The pin keeps its aspect
  ratio; the scale pill updates as you go
- **Resize on Windows** — Click the scale pill and pick **10%**, **25%**,
  **50%**, **100%**, or **200%**

A pin can't grow larger than the screen.

## Locking

Click **Lock** to stop the pin from moving or resizing — useful when it sits
right where you need it and you keep clicking near it. Click **Unlock** to free
it again.

## Good to know

- **One pin at a time** — Pinning another capture replaces the current pin
- **Independent of the editor** — The pin stays after you close the editor
- **Not saved** — Pins last until you close them or quit hypershot; they
  don't come back after a restart. To keep a capture, save it — see
  [Save to File](/docs/hypershot/exporting/save-to-file)

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*See also: [Copy to Clipboard](/docs/hypershot/exporting/copy-to-clipboard) | [Share](/docs/hypershot/exporting/share)*

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From https://hypernuclear.com/docs/hypershot/exporting/pin-to-screen/