Please take a look at www.chintha.com
Is this what you are looking for?

paul

Abalieno wrote:

I'm actually interested in a similar feature:

I'd like to flag manually some of the nodes so that their titles (just them) appear in a custom box on the homepage (not the sidebar).

HRose / Abalieno

I don't think this is a standard feature, so you may need to code some PHP unless someone else has done this and can offer some suggestions.

There is a 'categories' block, which lists the various categories and the number of articles in each category - maybe this could be modified to suit your needs.

(sorry, I am a bit to busy at the moment to give this further thought - maybe someone else will help?)