# Allow all users to set topic reminders

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-all-users-to-set-topic-reminders/101508>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [November 7, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-all-users-to-set-topic-reminders/101508 "2018-11-07T09:35:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-all-users-to-set-topic-reminders/101508/6 "2019-08-02T07:46:42Z")

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I think this fills a different role.

“Forget about this thing completely till next week, follow up once”

vs

“This thing is important to me”

That said I would love to see bookmarks become more useful, personally I simply never use bookmarks (I also don’t use star in GMail), its basically a pointless button in the UX I have I never press.

With the topic reminder I am assigning deliberate work to the computer … activate stop watch … tell me about this again in N minutes. That allows me to dump stuff off my brain stack.

Slack’s take on this is this function it exposes on in the `...` menu:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/c/6cadc737814b185713022d1f8c7c532e5b476332.png)

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