# Feature request: Select and pin important excerpts from Codex responses

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-select-and-pin-important-excerpts-from-codex-responses/1392738>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** codex\
**Created:** [August 26, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-select-and-pin-important-excerpts-from-codex-responses/1392738 "2026-08-26T11:41:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wenyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/49beb7/32.png) [@wenyu](https://community.openai.com/u/wenyu)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-select-and-pin-important-excerpts-from-codex-responses/1392738/1 "2026-08-26T11:41:52Z")

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In long Codex conversations, important decisions, commands, caveats, and unresolved questions are easy to lose in the context—especially when I notice something important but cannot act on it immediately.

Please allow users to select part of an assistant response and pin that excerpt to a persistent notes panel beside the conversation.

Suggested interaction:

1. Select text in any Codex response.
2. Click “Pin” from a floating toolbar or context menu.
3. Show pinned excerpts in a collapsible right-side panel.
4. Allow users to reorder, tag, mark as resolved, and jump back to the original message.
5. Expose message selection, message references, and context-menu actions to plugins so third-party developers can extend this workflow.

This would be especially valuable during long-running coding tasks with high information density. Even if OpenAI does not build the complete notes system immediately, opening the message-selection and context-menu extension APIs would let plugins provide it.

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**Author:** ![leroy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@leroy1](https://community.openai.com/u/leroy1)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-select-and-pin-important-excerpts-from-codex-responses/1392738/2 "2026-09-01T01:01:24Z")

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I’ve been wanting this for ages. Would be very useful.

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**Author:** ![OpenAI\_Support](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/openai_support/32/561845_2.png) [@OpenAI\_Support](https://community.openai.com/u/OpenAI_Support)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-select-and-pin-important-excerpts-from-codex-responses/1392738/3 "2026-09-14T16:37:42Z")

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Thanks for the detailed workflow. We’ll pass along the pinned-excerpt panel, organization controls and plugin extension API ideas. We don’t have a timeline to share.

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**Author:** ![smith.d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@smith.d](https://community.openai.com/u/smith.d)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-select-and-pin-important-excerpts-from-codex-responses/1392738/4 "2026-09-14T16:37:45Z")

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Closed on September 14, 2026, 4:37pm UTC