As a company wiki grows larger, it would be nice to favorite, bookmark, or star certain wiki notes.
The closest existing mechanism, watching a note, makes sense when you authored it or need to know when it changes. This proposal focuses more on the desire to flag certain pages as a useful personal reference for yourself.
You can currently view the Pages you're watching by navigating to My Profile > Watching > Product > Notes. However, this view is noisier than what I have in mind and necessarily Product-filtered.
The goal of favoriting a note would be to highlight it in the UI by:
The cross-Product viewing would make an excellent personalized wiki. In contrast to the watching view it could actually render the notes in-line, and/or with a cross-Product navigation of their hierarchy to the left, similar to the Product-scoped view.
As it makes sense to get notified of changes to notes you use as a personal reference, favoriting should add you as a watcher. However, the desire to take ownership of a page and know when it changes is orthogonal to the desire to reference it easily.
I would love to see this idea revisited in today's Aha! experience. Perhaps the starred notes could be featured in the My Work page, under "Documents" where you currently have access to "recents" and "shared with me."