I'd love to have some kind of bookmark-like functionality in Salesforce. The recent items list just doesn't do it for me. I sometimes need to keep an eye on a couple of Cases, a Lead, something I asked someone else to do through a task ... By the time I've done some work, they're all gone from my recent items list and I need to find one by one, it's easy to forget one.

I know you could create a task for every single one but if you're running dashboards these clutter up the amounts and thus the real value of the dashboard itself.

A little button such as an eye on top of every record would be perfect. And then a little eye somewhere on the homepage that takes me to my watchlist, any list style view would do.