Make favourites more easily accesible

[oopmarcos]

It's nice to be able to tag posts as favourite, but there is no way of searching for favourites unless you have the view option set to "All articles" or "Starred only".

• It would be nice if there was an entry in the hamburger menu for starred posts.
• Moreover, I would also argue that starred posts should be discoverable through the search box, even if you have the view option set to "Unread only".

Otherwise, really good work, congrats!

[yang991178]

Do you mean adding a menu entry that functions the same as toggling the "starred only" view option? From a design perspective, I would rather avoid adding duplicated functions while saving space on the side bar.

[oopmarcos]

Yeah, hadn't though about it that way, it's probably redundant to have it in two places, you're right. However, my other point still stands, wouldn't it be logical to be able to search for starred posts even from the "unread only" view option? After all, if you're searching for a post, it most likely is for something you have already read and starred to be able to locate it easier later.

[yang991178]

It would probably be more suitable to view the search function as a filter on the current feed, just like the "unread only" option. Showing articles not in the current view may be confusing for some users, at least in my opinion.

[oopmarcos]

From my own experience, I find myself using the search function to search for posts that I have read and starred to access them later, I don't see how one would search for posts that they haven't read yet. Just my two cents though.

[ZeroTwoCode]

A starred articles menu item would be really useful for me. I use RSS to manage YouTube subscriptions and use starred as a Watch Later type thing. Currently I would have to click onto the YouTube category, click the view icon and then click the starred only filter. Just from a usability perspective, it would be better to have this as 1 click instead of 3. Maybe it could be a menu item that can be switched off in settings.

For now, I've implemented it in a custom build but it's a little (very) janky so not ideal long term.

[vosian]

So this made me think about doing a mock up, I personally like this one, but it'd only really work on list view mode:

While this should work in every view mode:

This way changing the filter is only one click away, rather than having to summon the view menu first.

[dylankenneally]

Adding my support for the star/favourites feature to be fleshed out. ~At the moment, I can add a star but have no means of finding it afterwards - which defeats the purpose of having it, or have I missed something?~ I was missing something - the view menu has stared only - would still be good to get the visibility of this increased (as you can see, people miss it at the moment)

My ideal would be:

1. in the menu (left-hand pane)
   • Search
   • All articles
   • Favourites
2. for the favourites not to be deleted when Clean Up is used, maybe with a preferences option to change that