diff --git a/Outpost/Features/Home/HomeView.swift b/Outpost/Features/Home/HomeView.swift
index aca952d..7b86f1f 100644
--- a/Outpost/Features/Home/HomeView.swift
+++ b/Outpost/Features/Home/HomeView.swift
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ struct HomeView: View {
                                 PinnedDocumentCard(document: document)
                             }
                             .buttonStyle(.plain)
+                            .pointerCursorOnHover()
                         }
                     }
                     .padding(.horizontal, 24)
diff --git a/Outpost/Features/Home/PinnedDocumentCard.swift b/Outpost/Features/Home/PinnedDocumentCard.swift
index 04d19bc..c099fec 100644
--- a/Outpost/Features/Home/PinnedDocumentCard.swift
+++ b/Outpost/Features/Home/PinnedDocumentCard.swift
@@ -2,45 +2,57 @@
 import SwiftUI
 import OutlineKit
 
-/// Deliberately distinct from `DocumentCardView` — the pinned section is for
-/// a quick scan of a small curated set, not browsing, so this is a dense
-/// single-line row rather than a tall card, with an explicit pin glyph so
-/// it doesn't read the same as the tab grids below it.
+/// Same tall-card shape as `DocumentCardView` (the tab grids below it) so the
+/// pinned section reads as a set of cards, not a row of tab-like chips — the
+/// accent-filled pin badge is the one thing that marks these as pinned.
 struct PinnedDocumentCard: View {
     @Environment(StarStore.self) private var starStore
     let document: OutlineDocument
 
     var body: some View {
-        HStack(spacing: 10) {
-            if let emoji = document.emoji {
-                Text(emoji)
-                    .font(.title3)
-            } else {
-                Image(systemName: "doc.text")
-                    .font(.body)
-                    .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 8) {
+            HStack(spacing: 6) {
+                if let emoji = document.emoji {
+                    Text(emoji)
+                        .font(.title2)
+                } else {
+                    Image(systemName: "doc.text")
+                        .font(.title3)
+                        .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+                }
+
+                Spacer()
+
+                if starStore.isStarred(documentId: document.id) {
+                    Image(systemName: "star.fill")
+                        .font(.caption)
+                        .foregroundStyle(.yellow)
+                }
+
+                Image(systemName: "pin.fill")
+                    .font(.caption2)
+                    .foregroundStyle(.white)
+                    .padding(5)
+                    .background(Color.accentColor, in: Circle())
             }
 
             Text(document.title.isEmpty ? "Untitled" : document.title)
-                .font(.callout.weight(.medium))
-                .lineLimit(1)
+                .font(.headline)
+                .lineLimit(2)
+                .multilineTextAlignment(.leading)
+                .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
 
-            Spacer(minLength: 0)
-
-            if starStore.isStarred(documentId: document.id) {
-                Image(systemName: "star.fill")
-                    .font(.caption2)
-                    .foregroundStyle(.yellow)
-            }
-
-            Image(systemName: "pin.fill")
-                .font(.caption2)
+            Text(document.updatedAt, format: .relative(presentation: .named))
+                .font(.caption)
                 .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
         }
-        .padding(.horizontal, 12)
-        .padding(.vertical, 9)
-        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
-        .background(.fill.tertiary, in: RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 8))
+        .padding(14)
+        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, minHeight: 96, alignment: .topLeading)
+        .background(.fill.tertiary, in: RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 12))
+        .overlay(
+            RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 12)
+                .strokeBorder(Color.primary.opacity(0.08), lineWidth: 1)
+        )
     }
 }
 #endif