Watchlist improvements: Making it behave like a regular table - can serve as a kind of Dashboard?

I am really enjoying the relatively new Watchlist feature. It has been very easy to just click it and see everything I am watching, on a screen that shows a lot of entities given the format of just the line items. I think we could get a lot of pseudo-Dashboard benefit, which has been discussed around here before such as here:

Some ideas I’d like to put forth, perhaps warranting individual requests:

  • Have the “Watchlist” icon globally visible, so you can get to it without first needing to get to the inbox

  • Pin the Watchlist" as a third panel on the left - sometimes I get 3 panels showing with an error and the inbox perpetuating on the left after I tried to close it, not sure what’s going on there, but it’s made me think a 3rd panel could be useful. Having the Watchlist open permanently would give the user a way to move across all relevant work quickly

  • Add in all the regular table features like being able to add fields in the view like due date, assignee, etc

- Show just comments and references on each entity by unfurling - this would be a great way to see updates on stuff you are watching at a glance.

While I am having issues with the newer inbox, I have actually been appreciating the watchlist more and more in light if the way it let’s you move across key items quickly.

Thanks!

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These are GREAT ideas – I love this, voted :slight_smile:

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Great thanks for the support @grex22! I really think Watchlist has huge potential to become the de facto “Dashboard” feature that would be easy to use out of the box, without the need to create solutions that involve configuring views, etc. Also I really think being able to pin some part of the Watchlist would be super helpful, so you could always have visible the stuff that is most relevance to you…

Thanks again!