Box to select topics

Stream: Zulip meta

[Filippo A. E. Nuccio]

Would it be possible to add boxes next to topics so that one can select some of them and mark them read, without marking everything as read? My typical use case is having some 500 unread messages in a channel, of which I would like to keep those from 2 or 3 topics unread (for further investigation) and mark all the others read.

[Johan Commelin]

Here is my workflow:

• hit n to go to the next unread thread
• do I want to read this now? yes, ok read it
• do I want to read it later? Shift-U
• do I want to mark as read? Shift-G
• go back to step 1, or hit Shift-I to go to inbox

[Filippo A. E. Nuccio]

Well, I see, but what if you have 200 unread threads and you want to read 3 of them? You still need Shift-G 197 times...

[Johan Commelin]

Workaround:

• star :star: the three messages that you want to read
• click "Mark all messages as read"
• go to the 3 threads with a star, and hit Shift-U on the starred messages
• remove the stars

[Filippo A. E. Nuccio]

That's nice!

[Junyan Xu]

I would like to keep those from 2 or 3 topics unread (for further investigation)

I would send myself links to the topics as direct messages for this purpose.