Ability to "favourite" or custom-tag individual posts

seamus

Every now and again in the midst of a discussion, I'll recall a post I made or a post someone else made that had a good argument in it or a pile of facts and statistics.

Actually going back and finding that post is usually painful, sometimes impossible.

What this feature would allow you to do is effectively bookmark good posts so that you can more easily find them later. For bonus points, if you could add your own custom tags (visible only to you), then it would make it easier to categorise and search on your favourited posts.

How people use this of course would differ. Someone on "Motors" might favourite posts that contain car maintenance tips. Someone else might favourite a Bargain Alert, or a particularly good piece of Fitness advice.

How this differs from subscribed or followed threads is that it's not a subscription or a follow. Big threads may have thousands of posts in them, so even if you do follow a thread for a particularly good post, knowing which thread that post lives in and where it is, can be just as difficult as just googling it.

"Thanking" isn't really the same thing either. I can view the posts I have thanked, but very few of them actually contain information I'd use later on, and there's no ability to search within.

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You could always manage it yourself by copying the link to the post and bookmarking it/saving it to a text file

seamus

Yeah, I'm not nearly that organised . And maintaining that file across multiple machines wouldn't work for me. Far too lazy for that.

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seamus wrote: »

Yeah, I'm not nearly that organised

Depending on the approach, you could make it a two-click operation. E.g., open the post link, and favourite it in your browser.

seamus wrote: »

And maintaining that file across multiple machines wouldn't work for me. Far too lazy for that.

Plenty of options: Firefox and Chrome will both sync bookmarks, Google Keep, Dropbox...