# Ability to mark private messages as unread

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-mark-private-messages-as-unread/20320>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Septembre 22, 2014, 11:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-mark-private-messages-as-unread/20320 "2014-09-22T11:44:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [Mars 17, 2016, 3:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-mark-private-messages-as-unread/20320/8 "2016-03-17T15:58:54Z")

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I use “mark as unread” all the time in Gmail, and I also archive most messages pretty immediately… Basically, what you describe @jomaxro.

That said, I think the _priority_ of this feature is much lower now that archive exists… Perhaps this goes into the `pr-welcome` bucket?

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