Keep posts unread

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The discussion revolves around the desire to keep individual posts unread in Discourse. alefattorini proposed a button to mark specific posts as unread, as they currently use bookmarks, but find it inconvenient due to using bookmarks for multiple purposes. codinghorror inquired about the inconvenience of using the bookmark button, and alefattorini explained their use case. omfg suggested an alternative solution of allowing named or tagged bookmarks, which could also benefit normal use. erlend_sh pointed out that this topic is a continuation of a previous discussion: Ability to mark any post as unread.

Sometimes I read posts from my mobile but can’t reply immediately but I postponed them
since the reply is too long or simply I have no time.
Can I have a button to keep posts (not entire topic) unread? Right now I’m using bookmarks but it’s not really handy. Do I have other options?

What I do in this case is bookmark the post, does that work for you?

Can you explain what is not “handy” about tapping the bookmark button?

Maybe it’s just my case but I actually use boomarks also for other stuff like: mark great posts, things to do, howtos/FAQ to edit and this kind of things appear in the same boomarks list, that’s why is not handy for me..

EDIT: the only workaround I see is using bookmarks just for “unread” posts :slight_smile:

If bookmarks could be named/tagged at creation, that would work (just click OK to leave the name empty, then you know which bookmarked posts need to be revisited). Bookmark tags would also be handy for normal use so I would prefer that (improve existing feature, get two new benefits/uses) to adding Unread Post.

As admin I used to flag posts to read them later (very handy!), but that isn’t a good idea :smiley:

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