# Make new watched/tracked topics also unread

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-watched-tracked-topics-also-unread/37015>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [21 ديسمبر 2015، 4:35م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-watched-tracked-topics-also-unread/37015 "2015-12-21T16:35:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [22 ديسمبر 2015، 3:21م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-watched-tracked-topics-also-unread/37015/10 "2015-12-22T15:21:15Z")

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One way would be to escalate all automatically tracked/watched topics (i.e. by Watching a category) to Unread instead of New.

I follow a few categories on Meta and I wouldn’t mind those automatically ending up in my Unread queue. Then `New` essentially becomes my “let’s see if there’s anything interesting here”-queue while `Unread` becomes my de-facto reading-list. However, this might be an annoyance to others with a different workflow.

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