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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by Daiz on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:11AM (#9413750)
Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.
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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by popasmurf on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:38AM (#9413883)
This already exists, check out http://astralapp.com/
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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by michaelmior on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @10:20AM (#9414177)
I really like Astral. I do wish it were open source though.
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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by dimatura on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @10:27AM (#9414234)
I have the same problem. I usually end up bookmarking to pinboard instead, where I can add tags.

Also, I often find bookmarking at the repo level too coarse - often I am only interested in a specific file or class.

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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by bnycum on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:38AM (#9413889)
Here's what I did because I had the same thoughts. I just save everything to delicious as a bookmark, then first tag everything with 'github' then any other tags after that.
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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by tomkinstinch on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:20AM (#9413786)
Categorization like this would be great.

I'd also like to be able to bin things as "useful today" vs "something under development to keep an eye on for the future."

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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by jonbaer on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:25AM (#9413820)
Yeah an easy to spot (and understandable) "staleness" rating would be +1
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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by bsima on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:24AM (#9413811)
Sounds like a GitHub bookmarking app would be useful, or a browser plugin...
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Re:Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Lik... by knd775 on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @10:26AM (#9414220)
Astral (http://astralapp.com/) has been mentioned in this thread and is great. It does exactly this.
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