# Make new watched/tracked topics also unread

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-watched-tracked-topics-also-unread/37015
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 21, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-watched-tracked-topics-also-unread/37015 "2015-12-21T16:35:42Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-new-watched-tracked-topics-also-unread/37015/12 "2015-12-30T12:32:28Z")

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I don’t think it’s related at all.. I think you are looking for this:

> [@Set category notification state historically](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-category-notification-state-historically/29979):
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> Currently, when you change the watching/tracking status of a category, it only applies that status to topics created from that point on. If you watch a category and then a week later realize that’s too much noise and decide to unwatch it, you are still watching each individual topic that was created during that week. Manually unwatching each one individually is unintuitive and time-consuming. There should be an option to apply the status to the entire category, not just new topics.

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