The discussion revolves around a feature request to allow users to tag bookmarks or starred items for better organization. rubydoob initially proposed this to differentiate between various types of saved content, such as support vs. feedback forums. While BhaelOchon and sam argued that the platform should focus on simplification rather than adding complexity, happybeing strongly supported the idea, noting they have 96 bookmarks they cannot currently filter or organize effectively.
The conversation took a positive turn when sam announced that tagging bookmarks was back on the roadmap for Discourse version 2.9. However, ToddZ expressed concern that the feature might have been removed again. Moin clarified that while the dedicated tagging feature was removed, a workaround exists via the “What is this bookmark for?” field within the “More options” menu. ToddZ thanked Moin for the tip, acknowledging that while not as robust as true tags, this hidden field helps manage their overwhelming bookmark list. The thread also touched on the distinction between using stars for topics and bookmarks for posts Mittineague.
I think it would be great if you had the ability to tag a given bookmark/starred item.
For example, if you have a feedback forum or support forum and you want to organize your bookmarks/starred items, currently you don’t have the ability to differentiate between any of your bookmarks. If you could tag them (note: this tag is personal to you only) you could organize items into whatever makes sense for you.
This request seems majorly off the mark to me. I feel like if you want that level of complexity, you should be using either a custom plugin or a third-party (i.e. browser-based) bookmark system.
Agree, if anything we need simplification. I still stand by thinking we don’t need both star and bookmark concepts, one needs to go
I had something bookmarked and starred. I went to undo one and didn’t realize the other was still there enabled. So I had to take that additional step of undoing the second marker.
I stopped bookmarking and instead used star-ing exclusively.
I’m using both.
Star for Topics I want to be able to find easier and Bookmark for Posts I want to be able to find easier.
But I guess since a Post belongs to a Topic they could be combined somehow.
Personally, if one must go I’d rather go to a post (even if the first post) in a Topic rather than have to look for a particular post in a very long Topic.
Yeah after typing it out I had a feeling it wouldn’t resonate with others, it is a very niche feature I guess.
It would be great if you could “mark” a topic in the overview on mobile while scrolling through the topics to read them later instead of clicking on the topic… Loading it then mark and then go back…
I just signed up here (having used discourse on the quite active MaidSafe forum for about three months) to suggest exactly the feature quoted. Nice that it was suggested just yesterday 
I don’t use stars much, but I have 96 bookmarks - all posts which contain important nuggets of information - but which I now can’t really access. All the while I was thinking, I need some way to organise this - e.g. to tag them as I go: encryption / authentication / farming / app-idea, and so on. Ideally multiple tags per post when I need that, and then to be able to list my bookmarks and filter by tag.
I just learned that discourse has plugins, so forgive me if this is available that way. If it is please say and if you can point me to it please do.
If discourse had the feature I just described, it wouldn’t need stars as well, though its not an issue for me. I don’t find the UI too cluttered and I can imagine some people would like to have star as a “special” way to mark posts, or perhaps as a way to have some other functionality not available with bookmarks.
Also want to add that I really like discourse and we get about one new person a week turning up and going “wow, what is this software, where can I get it, is it open source etc.”
It is useful, but I also understand how it might be getting away from the core-competency of a forum platform i.e. if anything maybe a plugin
In the meantime you can use https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
흥미롭게도, 이제 우리가 / @martin이 북마크 시스템을 다시 만들었기 때문에 북마크에 태그를 붙일 수 있는 기능이 다시 논의 테이블에 올랐습니다.
이 기능은 Discourse Version 3.0 버전에 포함될 예정입니다.
다시 테이블에서 내려간 건가요? 요즘 북마크를 정리할 수 있는 방법이 있으면 좋겠다고 생각 중입니다.
그렇게 보입니다. 여기에서 제거된 것 같네요:
제 우회 방법은 “이 북마크는 무엇에 사용되나요?” 필드인데, 인터페이스가 리마인더에 대해서만 질문하기 때문에 다소 숨겨져 있습니다.
게시물 자체 때문에 보통 몇 가지 일치 항목이 나오긴 하지만, 북마크를 필터링하는 데 꽤 잘 작동합니다.
아, 감사합니다 – “추가 옵션” 메뉴를 열어본 적이 한 번도 없었네요!
앞으로 이렇게 해보겠습니다. 태그나 폴더만큼은 아니더라도, 방대한 북마크 목록을 계속 스크롤하는 것보다는 낫겠죠. 
몇 년 전에는 북마크를 추가하면 항상 그런 모달이 열렸습니다. 그때는 이 기능을 훨씬 쉽게 찾을 수 있었죠.
