# Is it possible to watch or track ALL categories in a forum?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-watch-or-track-all-categories-in-a-forum/49003>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Août 22, 2016, 1:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-watch-or-track-all-categories-in-a-forum/49003 "2016-08-22T13:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![AnneCarpenter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/annecarpenter/32/120432_2.png) [@AnneCarpenter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AnneCarpenter)\
**Post date:** [Août 22, 2016, 2:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-watch-or-track-all-categories-in-a-forum/49003/7 "2016-08-22T14:09:13Z")

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Oh my goodness, I never noticed the gray/black! Thanks for educating me on this.

I guess there is no way to sort/filter the list of topics by that unread criterion, am I right?

- Latest - is in order it was posted, whether read or not (though at least ‘new’ topics are marked)
- Unread - is only for entirely unread topics, apparently. If there is a new response to an old topic it doesn’t appear here.

I think that Latest’s current behavior is sufficient for my aims, though, because if I’m reasonably caught up on reading I can skim the front page or two for any black headings; I don’t need it to be precisely ordered by “read/unread” status. So I think this will work! Again, many thanks!

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