Beyond websites: how to review PDFs, images and video with pins

Review work rarely lives in one place. A launch is a website and a press release PDF, a set of exported banners, and a 90-second product video. Most visual-feedback tools only understand web pages, so everything else falls back to screenshots, email and “see page 6, second paragraph.”

Pogpin pins the same way across four surfaces — live sites, PDFs, images and video — and each pin lands on the same board with the same statuses, priorities and threads. What changes is the context each surface can prove. This article walks through the three non-website surfaces and what a pin captures on each.

Why one review flow matters

When feedback is scattered across a markup tool for the site, email for the PDF and a spreadsheet of timecodes for the video, three things break: nobody has the full picture, the same item gets raised twice, and half the notes lose their context on the way to whoever fixes them.

Keeping every pin — whatever it sits on — in one project fixes all three. You filter by surface when you want only the video notes, or work the whole list top to bottom. Every item has a status, a priority and an assignee regardless of where it came from.

Reviewing PDFs

Upload a spec, a contract or a print proof and pin any page. The important detail: text stays selectable, so a pin isn’t just a rectangle on an image of the page — it can quote the exact sentence it disagrees with.

A PDF pin captures:

• the page number (e.g. page 7 of 24),
• its anchored position on the page,
• the quoted text carried into the comment, and
• the file version, so a pin from two revisions ago is still traceable.

This is the difference between “the renewal clause is wrong somewhere” and a pin on that clause with the sentence quoted back.

Reviewing images

Drop in a screenshot, a Figma export or a banner comp. The catch with image feedback is zoom: a note left at 2× on a 4K export has to land in the same spot on everyone else’s screen. Pogpin stores a pin’s position relative to the file itself, not to how large it happened to be drawn — so it holds at any zoom and on any display.

An image pin captures:

• a point, or a dragged region when the problem is a whole area rather than one spot,
• the file version it was left on, so feedback on v1 stays readable after v2 lands, and
• everything a site pin carries about the reporter — browser, OS, screen and viewport.

Reviewing video

Video feedback usually arrives as “around 40 seconds something looks off,” which means everyone scrubs to roughly the right place and guesses. Pogpin pins a moment, not the whole file.

A video pin captures:

• the timecode it was left at (e.g. 00:42.310),
• a range instead of a single moment, when you mark a start and an end — useful for “the music is wrong from 0:41 to 0:47”,
• its position on the frame (not the player chrome), and
• the file version, like every other review pin.

Click a video pin and the player jumps back to that exact moment. Comments that share a spot on the timeline are clustered into one marker with a count, so a busy second stays readable. A comment that says “the voiceover clips right here” now points at here.

Everything lands on one board

This is the part that makes multi-surface review actually usable. A pin from a PDF and a pin from the homepage are the same kind of object:

• the same four statuses (To do → In progress → In review → Done, plus any custom ones),
• the same priorities (Low / Medium / High / Urgent),
• the same assignees, threads and @mentions, and
• the same routing to Slack, Discord or a webhook when something needs to leave Pogpin.

Reviewers still comment as guests with no account, whatever the surface — so a client can mark up the deck and the site in the same link.

Where it’s useful

• Agencies running a client launch across a site, a deck and a promo video.
• Marketing teams proofing print PDFs and social exports alongside the landing page.
• Product teams reviewing a Loom-style walkthrough or a recorded demo frame by frame.

Try it on your own files

Reviewing more than websites is available on every plan, including Free. Upload a PDF, an export or a video, pin it the same way you’d pin a page, and watch the context — page, pixels or timecode — come along automatically.

For the interactive previews of each surface, see the what you can review section.