improve styles a little by removing borders and briefly working on spacing. Then, generated model and associations for UsersStars (so users can star items)
now updating total count of unread items in the sidebar after every toggle-read aaction. Wish I could also update the counts for inidivual feeds but it is buggy. Specififically, the ids of the feeds are not in sync even though they should be, not sure why. going to give up on that for a brief bit
made categories section in 'discover feeds' that makes a browse-items view for each category
updated toggle item view so that sidebar unread count is not updated if the item is being read as part of the categories view
cool categories view on 'discover feeds'
star button now correctly toggles and makes AJAX calls
add link to starred items view - it is empty. finishing for day