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idlewords on July 14, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking

Starring is used to select bookmarks for bulk operations (add tag/make private/mark as unread etc.)

callahad on July 14, 2009 [–]

Hm, wouldn't plain checkboxes suffice? That's a pretty entrenched convention. Not to mention that using stars in that way doesn't really mesh with that convention either. Is there some aspect of it I'm missing?

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