# Managing high number of private messages **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Tags:** planned\ **Created:** [11월 1, 2017, 3:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-high-number-of-private-messages/73218 "2017-11-01T15:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Post date:** [11월 1, 2017, 6:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-high-number-of-private-messages/73218/3 "2017-11-01T18:22:32Z")
Tagging PMs will be a huge boon so I hope this is coming soon. But it’s not pressing since it’s only really an issue for moderators/staff, not regular members, luckily. In terms of my workflow. I recently went through the whole backlog of staff messages - it took me a few hours a day for a week but I succeeded and felt good afterwards. 🚀 Now I try to stay on top of them on a daily basis and use the ARCHIVE link liberally to get out of sight those messages that have no reply from a member or don’t need handling. I prioritize those messages that have been replied to by members. I also make liberal use of the ASSIGN feature to assign messages to colleagues or to myself that I don’t want to deal with right now and then hit ARCHIVE. And finally, I use the TIMER feature so I can be reminded later about messages that I want to make sure I follow up on. Oh, I almost forgot. As part of this cleanup I invited the `@moderators` group to all staff messages and make sure moderators are included in future. This helps separate my personal messages from staff messages, which often need special handling, because when a group I’m in is included in a message it does not show up in my own messages inbox/archive. It’s only in the group inbox/archive. Also, I rename personal messages all the time to add member specific details to them or to add statuses (e.g. UNDERWAY or DONE), and then search for those keywords. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-high-number-of-private-messages/73218)._