# Flags and stars icons hover over text notification **URL:** \ **Category:** Design proposals\ **Created:** [March 8, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/flags-and-stars-icons-hover-over-text-notification/566 "2023-03-08T13:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![ostephens](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/ostephens/32/8_2.png) [@ostephens](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/ostephens)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/flags-and-stars-icons-hover-over-text-notification/566/9 "2023-03-12T10:46:19Z")
It’s very tricky. By design, currently, the stars and flags are neutral in meaning - they only have meaning as far as the user decides to use them - basically they just provide a way of creating two arbitrary sets of rows I describe how I sometimes use stars and flags at [Hints, Tips and Tricks - #4 by ostephens](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/hints-tips-and-tricks/127/4) Based on this I definitely don’t like the idea of assigning specific meaning (like “important”) to either of these existing mechanisms. I can certainly see that being able to define an arbitrary number of different sets might be useful - which I think is what is being proposed by @thadguidry in this issue [Idea to add better and new Selection Labeling for Rows/Records (not only Star and Flag) · Issue #4483 · OpenRefine/OpenRefine · GitHub](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/4483). However - I’d also be a bit wary of over engineering this - the advantage of the flags/stars mechanism is it’s simplicity - as soon as it becomes more complicated I feel it loses it’s current utility An approach I might see working (which I think goes beyond simple UX improvements) would be a tagging mechanism for rows which might be used in addition to the star/flag mechanism. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/flags-and-stars-icons-hover-over-text-notification/566)._