Put a Pin in It

How to unlock Put a Pin in It in Cheevos. Pin a browser tab so it lives there forever. Worth 5 XP.

The story

Partner. You pinned a tab. Now it lives there.

A regular tab is a suggestion. It can be closed by accident, swept away with the rest of the row, forgotten by tomorrow. A pinned tab is different. You shrank it down, locked it to the edge of the bar, and told your browser: this one stays.

Cache understands commitment like this better than almost anyone. Everything in the Stash is pinned, mentally if not literally. He does not keep things loosely. He keeps them on purpose, in a specific place, where he can find them again without thinking. This is why the Stash is organized. It is also, he will admit, why it takes up so much space.

Here is the small turn: pinning a tab looks like a tiny, almost invisible action. One click, a little icon shrinks. But it is a decision about what matters enough to survive the next cleanup. Cache does not think that is a small thing at all.

Into the bag. This one stays pinned.

The catalog entry

PINNED TAB Acquired: Pinned a tab to the browser bar. Condition: Permanent. Or until you unpin it. Rarity: Common. Cache's Notes: A pinned tab is a commitment. You are saying: this site is important enough to always be here. Cache pins things mentally. Everything in the Stash is pinned. This is why the Stash is so organized. This is why it takes up so much space. Worth it.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

Pinning a tab takes one action, and Cheevos catches it the moment you do it.

  1. Right-click any open tab.
  2. Select "Pin Tab" from the context menu.
  3. Watch the tab shrink down to an icon and move to the far left of your tab bar.

Pinned tabs behave differently from regular tabs in a few useful ways: they cannot be closed with the usual close button, they reopen automatically when your browser restarts, and they stay in place even as you open and close other tabs around them. It is the browser's built-in way of marking something as a fixture rather than a passing visit, ideal for a webmail inbox, a chat app, or a dashboard you check all day long.

Where it fits in the Stash

Cache keeps a shelf for things marked permanent on purpose, and a pinned tab belongs right on it. It is a small habit that says a lot about how you organize your own corner of the internet. To meet the raccoon who pins everything, read the story.