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Allow canvases to be pinned as first-class items

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Right now canvases live inside a session. Once I move to another session or close the panel, the canvas is out of sight and I have to dig back to it. Sometimes a session becomes important precisely because of what its canvas is showing (a dashboard updating, a browser preview, a running terminal), and I want to keep an eye on it even while I work elsewhere.

I'd like to be able to pin a canvas so it becomes a first-class item rather than something buried in a session.

Two placement ideas:

1. Pin it into the left sidebar, alongside sessions, so it sits at the top level and survives switching between sessions.
2. Pin it to the macOS menu bar as a status item (the icons in the top-right of the screen, what AppKit calls an `NSStatusItem` / what SwiftUI calls a `MenuBarExtra`). Clicking the status item would pop the canvas open without bringing the whole app forward.

This is a rough first pass to get the idea down.

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