Bold Left Sidebar With Notification

I get lots of notifications, but it's not easy to see which project, person or forum actually had the comment made in. I have a list of notifications shown, but no easy way of telling in which "folder" it occurred unless I actually go to notification and click on that notification. It seems like it would be very easy to just bold the corresponding Project, person or forum that had the comment made in it. Also, you could "star" the Chat or Posts tab and figure out some way of indicating which Post had the update.