Drupal Views Boomarks vs 'Promoted to frontpage'

To add granularity to the items in a given view that should be shown on a given list, you can either use:

1.  Taxonomy terms - has the disadvantage of being listed in the term listing for that node unless you do extra work to exclude the vocabulary
2. Re-purpose the 'promote to frontpage', or 'Sticky' settings already provide in Drupal - can have side-effects by affecting the promote and sticky features; since this is a 'misuse' of features
3. Views Bookmarks - This module provides the features of the above alternatives without the disadvantages of either option. The module enables the creation of multiple and virtually endless switches that can be restricted by roles allowed to use them, the scope of effect (users can create bookmarks that only affect what they see), and the node-type (CCK) that a tag/switch can affect. Most  importantly, this module closely works with VIEWS, and so the switches can be used to add more granularity to VIEWS queries without unnecessarily clouding Taxonomy or mis-using existing settings (Sticky, Promote)