One thing I find myself needing when setting up panels is a way to load a single node in a panel. From what I can tell, the panels UI doesn't give you a way to do this, but I've been using this workaround that seems to do the job.

All you have to do is make a view that does the following:

• provides a page (I give mine the path "single_node")
• lists content in "node view"
• takes a "nid" argument