every crazy issue query you can come up with via the issue queues right now provides a customized RSS feed icon, and a '#' permalink to that exact query. the reason is that *all* of the issue filtering stuff can be handled by a big enough, ugly enough URL. ;) i personally use this functionality all the time to craft handy views of stuff i care about, to help me keep track of my issues. for example, a view of all the issues in patch (RTBC, review or needs work) for all of my projects:

http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3235,69144,3281,75232,29351,38...

currently, i manage all of this via bookmarks in my browser, and the occasional "open in tabs". ;) however, it'd be really slick for d.o users (or anyone with a project_issue install) to be able to create a custom query using advanced search, or filtering the default query, and then having a link at the bottom of the query to "Save this view".

that'd bring you to a little confirm form that let you give it a title, and then we'd stash it away in a DB table something like {project_issue_user_views} with 3 columns: 'uid', 'url', and 'title'. then, we could provide a "Favorite issue queries" block, and have a table of these things at the top of the "My issues" page. maybe we'd even add a 'weight' column in there, and provide a form somewhere for folks to edit this table, rename things, reorder them, etc, etc.

really wouldn't be that hard, but it'd be a killer feature... webchick was asking me about usability stuff in IRC, and this has been on my mind for a little while, so i decided to finally write it up...