# 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:** ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Post date:** [Août 22, 2016, 3:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-watch-or-track-all-categories-in-a-forum/49003/9 "2016-08-22T15:07:39Z")

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You may also want to set this setting:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/7/172f658f21c4350e3a6b98417ec15b7a7a73eb92.png)

It prevents the “new” indicator from expiring until you actually read the topic. Together with…

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/3/630e27b2f7f04ebae8ffb957b0cfadc75d7ab026.png)

…it ensures that all topics that were created after you did this will always have either a “new” or a blue number next to them until you read all posts in them.

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