# Enable 'alert' Staff Notes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-alert-staff-notes/122919
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** user-notes
**Created:** [July 14, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-alert-staff-notes/122919 "2019-07-14T19:02:54Z")
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### Author: ![alexs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alexs/32/139956_2.png) [@alexs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexs)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-alert-staff-notes/122919/1 "2019-07-14T19:02:54Z")

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It’d be useful to be able to create a staff note that’s highlighted as an alert, to make it stand out from the notes which are just added to a user profile for general reference.

Staff notes have been really useful for me to use to record the fact that I’ve done some checks on a new user to make sure that they weren’t banned previously. Some users are more suspect than others though so I’d like to be able to flag the fact that I should pay closer attention to particular users, whereas I’ll add other notes that I’ve given a user the ‘all clear’. This might also be useful if a user’s been given a formal warning before etc.

I’m imagining a different e.g. 🚨 / extra icon being displayed next to user’s usernames where the 📝 icon for staff notes is now, to make these notes very visible but I’m sure that other alternatives would work too.