Think about the ten records you looked up last week. There’s probably a firewall password for a client you manage daily, a network documentation article you reference every time you onboard a new user, and the switch asset record for the site that’s always having problems. Every time, you open Weavestream, find the client, navigate to the right section, and click through to the record. It takes maybe fifteen seconds. Times ten, times five days a week, times however many technicians you have — that’s a lot of time spent navigating to things you already know you need.
Weavestream’s starred items feature is the fix for this. It’s a personal bookmark list, per technician, that puts their most-used records one click away from anywhere in the platform.
What You Can Star
Starring is available on all four major record types:
- Companies — star a client you manage daily and jump to their record without going through the client list
- Assets — bookmark the firewall, the primary domain controller, the NAS that always needs attention
- Passwords — pin the credentials you reach for constantly (the admin password for a client’s Microsoft 365 tenant, the Wi-Fi PSK for a multi-site client)
- Articles — keep runbooks and procedures you reference regularly at your fingertips
You star a record by clicking the star icon on its detail page. Unstar it the same way. There’s no confirmation step — it’s instant, and it doesn’t affect anyone else.
Where Your Stars Show Up
Starred records appear in two places:
The sidebar star drawer. Click the star icon in the left navigation and a panel slides out listing everything you’ve starred, grouped by type. Each entry shows the record name and the client it belongs to, so there’s no ambiguity when you’ve got, say, a “Firewall” asset bookmarked for three different clients. If a record has been archived, the entry shows an archived-state label so you know something’s changed.
The admin dashboard. Your starred items appear as a widget right on the main dashboard — the first thing you see when you open Weavestream. No panel to open, no navigation required.
Both surfaces are there for different working styles. If you tend to stay on the dashboard and dispatch from there, the widget has you covered. If you’re deep in a client’s record and need to jump to something else entirely, the sidebar drawer is faster than navigating back.
Stars Are Per-User
This is worth emphasising: stars are personal. Each technician maintains their own list independently. When a junior tech stars the onboarding checklist article they reference constantly, it doesn’t appear in anyone else’s sidebar. When a senior engineer pins the three clients they’re primary contact for, that’s their own view.
This matters because the records that matter to each person on your team are genuinely different. Your network engineer lives in asset records and IPAM; your helpdesk tech is constantly pulling password records; your team lead checks documentation for every new-hire onboarding. A shared bookmark list would end up either too long to be useful or a constant source of friction as people add and remove things that matter to them.
The one thing to know: if a starred record is hard-deleted, the bookmark is cleaned up automatically. You won’t see dead links in your list.
A Small Feature With a Larger Point
Starred items isn’t a headline feature. It won’t appear in a vendor comparison spreadsheet. But it reflects something worth paying attention to in a self-hosted IT documentation platform: the platform should be fast to use, not just well-organised.
Most MSP documentation tools are built around the idea that you’ll navigate to what you need. Company → Assets → [scroll] → Firewall. That works fine when you’re doing an initial audit or building out a new client record. It’s frustrating when you’re responding to an incident at 6pm and need to grab the same credential you looked up yesterday.
Bookmarks are table stakes in most software people actually use every day. Weavestream brings that to your IT documentation so the platform stays out of your technicians’ way during the parts of the day that matter most.
How to Start Using It
If you’re already running Weavestream, open any company, asset, password, or article and click the star icon on the detail page. Then open the star drawer from the sidebar or check your dashboard widget — your bookmarks are already there.
Stars sync to your user account, so they follow you across devices and browsers. No setup, no configuration.
New to Weavestream? The quickstart guide gets the full stack running with Docker Compose in a few minutes. Starred items work out of the box with no additional configuration needed.