# Bookmarks vs reminders

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-vs-reminders/238883>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** bookmarks\
**Created:** [September 13, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-vs-reminders/238883 "2022-09-13T15:41:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmarks-vs-reminders/238883/1 "2022-09-13T15:41:45Z")

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IIRC, there used to be reminders. Then they got rolled into bookmarks as a feature. Took me a while (and a post here IIRC) to re-find them. Okay, fine. I guess I set a bookmark now.

So I started using bookmarks, which appear to default to ‘reminder’ functionality:

 ![Selection_445](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/c/3/ac324bd33075a31b430878b6af3e6f1761afabc9.png)

95% of the UI is about timing, so this must just be a renaming of reminders, right? Ehm, no.

I now occasionally re-stumble over the fact that the bookmark is retained after I’m notified of it. Really not the behavior I expected.

Sure, there’s (as I just discovered about 10min ago) the ability to set the bookmark to be deleted after I’m notified, but it’s hidden under the cog in the UI. I wonder how many people have stumbled across this, or instead just periodically clean out old notifications like I’ve been doing…

IMO I should be able to configure this behavior in my user preferences (I.E. globally for all topics / notifications) or the “After you are notified” dropdown should not be hidden by default.

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