Mark thread as read from converstation view?

Stream: Zulip meta

[Joachim Breitner]

I am still distilling an efficient approach to follow zulip without being overwhelmed. My current approach takes the “recent conversations” with “unread” as the center of action, and I go through each thread and either read it (Enter, read read read, Esc), or mark it as read. I can do that with Right, Enter, Left, but is there maybe even a one-key-shortcut for “mark selected conversation as read”?

[Johan Commelin]

I'm not aware of it. But may I offer a slightly different workflow? I basically don't use "Recent conversations" at all.

0. Go to a random topic.

1. Choose one of the next three options:
   1a. If you want to read this topic now, read it. Go to 2.
   1b. If you don't want to read it, hit Shift - G. Go to 2. (This scrolls to the end, so now the whole thread is read.)
   1c. If you want to read this topic later, go to 2.

2. Hit n to go to the next thread with unread messages. Go to 1.

[Joscha Mennicken]

I couldn't find a key binding in the zulip docs

[Joachim Breitner]

Not a bad workflow I admit

[Kevin Buzzard]

I also try and keep up with Zulip; every few hours I just click on each stream name and read all the topics; I don't have anything muted but I only skim-read the stuff I don't understand properly.

[Joachim Breitner]

Johan Commelin said:

I'm not aware of it. But may I offer a slightly different workflow? I basically don't use "Recent conversations" at all.

0. Go to a random topic.

1. Choose one of the next three options:
   1a. If you want to read this topic now, read it. Go to 2.
   1b. If you don't want to read it, hit Shift - G. Go to 2. (This scrolls to the end, so now the whole thread is read.)
   1c. If you want to read this topic later, go to 2.

2. Hit n to go to the next thread with unread messages. Go to 1.

I started using this scheme as well, thanks!
But did zulip’s behaviour change recently? I think previously it marked all visible messages as read after n, but now it doesn’t and I have to use Shift-G every time?

[Johan Commelin]

It depends on whether the end of the stream fits within your screen or not.

[Joachim Breitner]

Ok, seems to work. Maybe zulip was temporarily confused, or I was.

I still think that a key combination to mark a thread as read or mute it from the recent conversation view would be great, and I suggested it at <https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/27740>. Please :thumbs_up: if you agree :-)