Source: https://mokxi.com/docs/editor/comments
Updated: 2026-09-27

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# Pinned comments

A numbered pin on the board with a conversation behind it: a question about one
resistor, answered in place, without typing anything into the circuit.

## Putting one down

Press C and a pin lands under the pointer. Add a comment in the canvas
toolbar's more menu puts one in the middle of the view. Either way the thread
opens right away with the caret in the field, because a pin with nothing
behind it says nothing.

Drop a pin over a part and it belongs to that part: drag the part across the
board and the pin goes with it, which is what keeps "this one is the wrong
value" on the thing it is about. Drop it on bare board and it stays where you
put it. Drag a pin any time to move it.

## The thread

Click a pin and the thread opens beside it: who wrote it, when, what it says,
every reply under it, and a field to add one. Enter sends a reply and
Shift+Enter starts a new line, because a reply is a line of talk rather
than a document.

- Resolve marks the thread dealt with. Resolved pins are hidden, which is the
whole point of resolving one. See below for how to read them again.

- Delete takes the thread away.

- Escape, the ×, or a click on empty board puts the thread away.

The pin's number is its place in the document, counting from one. Delete a
thread and the ones after it renumber, so there are never gaps.

## Whose name is on it

Signed in, a comment carries your account name. Signed out, in your own local
project, it carries You. The editor works signed out and so does commenting
in it. In a live room every comment carries the name of the account that wrote
it, so a class can see who asked what.

## Reading the resolved ones

Open the layers panel with L. The Comments row has a fourth switch,
Show resolved, beside the usual show, dim and lock. Turn it on and the
resolved pins come back, drawn grayed. The switch is this browser's view of this
project, like the rest of the panel: it is not in the document and nobody else
sees it change.

## It is not a part

A comment carries no pins, is never wired, and is stored beside the parts rather
than among them. The simulation never sees one: a board covered in pins builds
exactly the netlist a bare one does.

A comment does not need the right to unlock, either. A student can pin a
question to a locked starter circuit they may not touch, which is rather the
point of an assignment with a question in it.

## Everything else is ordinary

Undo takes back a comment you added, moved, wrote in, replied to, resolved or
deleted. Deleting a part takes its own comments with it: the thread was about
that part, and a pin with nothing under it says nothing.

## Where they turn up

Comments travel with the document, so they are in the save, in a share link and
on a project's page. In a live room a comment is an edit like any other: the pin
appears on everybody's board as you put it down, and a reply appears in the
thread they have open. See rooms.

They are not in a PNG or SVG export. A picture of a circuit is of the
circuit; numbered pins are a conversation about it, and nobody wants them
printed on a worksheet. See exporting PNG and SVG.

### On this page

Putting one down The thread Whose name is on it Reading the resolved ones It is not a part Everything else is ordinary Where they turn up