Create a way for curators to save Flags for later, and be able to see them in the personal dashboard

[ale-jan-dra]

Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: mobile and website.

URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: NA

Description of need:
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I have some flags I would like to work on, but sometimes time when open them is not enough, those they are left for later. It would be nice to have a way to save those flags, to be able to find them easily and resolve them later.

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The feature might look as a saving icon next to the flag (like the star for favorite records). Then, those saved flags will be stored in a separate menu wihtin the flag page, like ‘my saved flags’, or would be listed on top of the page of the flags session.

[bdhimes]

Flags are just URLs basically, so you can easily already save these as bookmarks in your browser, which allows you to organise them however you would prefer. This is likely the best solution overall.

[wildlandblogger]

You can do that as a workaround, but I like this concept of a saved flag feature, it’ll make it easier to see what flags I need to follow up on rather than me having to save them externally.

[comradejon]

I’ve been working through a lot of old flags recently, and I’ve definitely seen many easily-resolved matters where a different curator did all the heavy lifting but didn’t quite close things out. And I suspect it’s because things tend to get “lost.” There are certainly workarounds, but I think a flag feature would probably be useful for a fair number of us - I know I’d appreciate one!

Personally, I’d probably use it for “needs follow-up,” “I can/should work this but don’t feel like it right now,” and “here’s useful information.” Anyway, not necessarily the highest of priorities, but if it’s reasonably easy to implement…

[ale-jan-dra]

It makes me happy to see this feature will make life easier for several of us. I’ll save the urls for now.