## Summary
Favorite any dashboard page and it appears in a new "Favorites" section
at the top of the side menu. The star next to the page title (or
Option+F) saves the exact view, filters and tabs included, with a name
derived from the URL ("Runs: Completed successfully, last 7d", "Run:
05hrqq9n") that you can rename inline from each item's hover menu.
The sidebar is customizable too: "Customize sidebar" (on section header
menus and in each "More" menu) opens a modal where you can reorder
sections, drag items into a new order, hide items behind a per-section
"More" popover, and rename or remove favorites. Changes apply on
Confirm, Reset restores the default layout without touching favorites,
and everything is stored per user in dashboard preferences.
## Screenshots
| Favorites in the side menu | Customize sidebar modal |
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## Design notes
- Favorite links carry a small marker search param so the favorite, not
its identical main menu item, highlights as active. Markers from shared
or stale links are cleaned on load, and changing any filter hands the
highlight back to the regular menu item.
- Preference writes are serialized with a row lock: several writers
(debounced collapse and width saves, favorite toggles, the customize
modal) can land concurrently and would otherwise clobber each other's
read-modify-write of the JSON column.
- Option+F is matched on `event.code` with a raw listener because macOS
reports Option-modified letters as symbols, which the `event.key` based
shortcut hook can't capture.
Verified end-to-end in the browser: star toggle and shortcut, instant
section appearance, inline rename and staged modal removal, filter-aware
labels and unique active states, shared-link normalization, drag
reordering, and persistence across reloads.
James Ritchie
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