Custom pagination with {exp:stash:get_list} and filtering

gistfile1.html

{!-- Wrapper template --}
{embed="wrappers/page_full_width"}

{!-- Meta data --}
{exp:stash:set name="meta_title"}Our projects{/exp:stash:set}
{exp:stash:set name="meta_description"}Projects of the International Polar Foundation{/exp:stash:set}

{!-- Navigation --}
{exp:stash:set name="nav_current"}projects{/exp:stash:set}

{!-- lists of projects (highlighted projects first) --}
{exp:channel:entries disable="categories|category_fields|member_data|trackbacks" channel="projects" orderby="cf_project_highlight|date" sort="desc|desc" dynamic="no" status="not closed"}

	{exp:stash:append_list name="projects_list"}
        {stash:st_project_title}{title}{/stash:st_project_title}
        {stash:st_project_highlight}{cf_project_highlight}{/stash:st_project_highlight}
		{stash:st_project_url_title}{url_title}{/stash:st_project_url_title}
        {stash:st_project_img}{cf_project_img}{/stash:st_project_img}
        {stash:st_project_summary}{cf_project_summary}{/stash:st_project_summary}
    {/exp:stash:append_list}

{/exp:channel:entries}

{!-- Create Primary Content--}
{exp:stash:set}

	{stash:primary_content}

		{!-- Page title and intro --}
		<div class="page_header">
			<h1 class="main_title">{lv_projects_title}</h1>
			<div class="intro">
				{lv_projects_intro}
			</div>
		</div>

		{!-- limit for stash_get loop and current page in list --}
		{stash:st_limit}3{/stash:st_limit}
		{stash:st_offset}{if segment_3}{segment_3}{if:else}0{/if}{/stash:st_offset}

		{!-- Build projects list (highlighted first) --}
		{exp:stash:get_list name="projects_list" prefix="stashprefix" parse_tags="yes" parse_conditionals="yes" limit="{exp:stash:get name='st_limit'}" offset="{segment_3}" match="#^n$#" against="st_project_highlight" parse="inward"}

			{!-- Blocking out </li><li> to avoid white-space between inline-block list items --}
			{if count == "1"}<ul class="projectslist"><li>{/if}
				<p class="imgholder"><a href="/partials/project/{st_project_url_title}">{exp:ce_img:pair src="{st_project_img}" width="700" height="394" crop="yes|center, center"}<img src="{made}" alt="{title}" />{/exp:ce_img:pair}</a></p>
				<h2><a href="/partials/project/{st_project_url_title}">{st_project_title}</a></h2>
				<p>{exp:eehive_hacksaw words="30" append="..."}{st_project_summary}{/exp:eehive_hacksaw}</p>
			{if count == total_results}</li></ul>{if:else}</li><li>{/if}

			{if count == total_results}
				<p>Absolute count: {absolute_count} - Absolute results: {absolute_results} - limit: {stash:st_limit}</p>
				{if absolute_count < absolute_results}
					<p><a href="{site_url}/partials/projects/{absolute_count}">next page</a></p>
				{/if}
				{if (absolute_count > stash:st_limit) && (segment_3 != 0)}
					{if "{exp:mx_calc expression='{absolute_count} - ({stash:st_limit} * 2)'}" > 0}
						<p><a href="{site_url}/partials/projects/{exp:mx_calc expression='{absolute_count} - ({stash:st_limit} * 2)'}">previous page</a></p>
					{if:else}
						<p><a href="{site_url}/partials/projects/0">previous page</a></p>
					{/if}
				{/if}
			{/if}

		{/exp:stash:get_list}

	{/stash:primary_content}

{/exp:stash:set}

Mark now has a feature branch of stash supporting pagination in {exp:stash:get_list}

And here is a gist explaining the syntax / tags