I would love to have some kind of bookmark-like functionality in Salesforce.com. The Recent items list just does not do this for me. I sometimes need to keep an eye on a couple of Cases, a Lead, or something I asked someone else to do through a task ... By the time I have done some work, they are all gone from my Recent items list and I need to find them one by one. This way, it is easy to forget something.
I know you could create a task for every single one, but if you are running dashboards, these clutter up the amounts, and thus, the real value of the dashboard itself.
A little button, such as an eye on top of every record, would be perfect. And, then a little eye somewhere on the Homepage that takes me to my Watchlist, any list style view would do.
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