# Allow messages to show up in global search

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-messages-to-show-up-in-global-search/147982>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-messages-to-show-up-in-global-search/147982 "2020-04-14T18:16:44Z")\
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Is there a way to allow personal messages that you have sent or received to show up in the global search results? or to toggle this option on/off?

I figured out that you could type in a keyword from a message and then: **in: messages** which will search your messages. The average user wouldn’t know that.

Use Case:  
Some of our users are coaches and may want to keep a longstanding log of their players and the progress that they are making. Using DM’s to yourself is a great way to do this. They just create a standardized Topic Description like: **💥 COACHING: Customer\_Name**

Then, every time they finish a training session they can add a comment about what they did and the next steps for that person.

It’s kind of like using the messages tool as a CRM. In this case, being able to get to a Trainign log with a client, from the global search, would be convenient!

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