# Notifications - "unread only" filter
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621 "2016-01-08T03:47:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/1 "2016-01-08T03:47:40Z")
Since I, an admin, read all messages on my forum on a daily basis, I often get lost while scrolling my notifications tab (I’m subscribed to all categories!)
It would be helpful to have some filters in the Notifications tab, e.g.:
- All
- Unread
- Read
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/2 "2016-01-08T04:06:27Z")
Sure filters there makes sense to me, cc @sam
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/3 "2016-01-08T18:57:38Z")
this would be a big help for my community as well. 👍
my members often complain about finding the notifications list overwhelming.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/4 "2017-03-01T22:04:39Z")
Have not had a chance to add these, I think this is a fine change for a community PR
#pr-welcome
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### Author:  [@nikomatsakis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nikomatsakis)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/5 "2017-04-14T08:47:21Z")
I am **constantly** wanting this as well. =) Discourse does an admirable job of helping me to keep up, but having all my notifications mixed together doesn’t help. =(
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### Author:  [@joshmoore](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshmoore)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/6 "2019-07-18T13:41:22Z")
I’ve glanced through the code, opened & closed PRs: can someone confirm that this hasn’t yet been worked on? ~Josh
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/7 "2019-07-18T14:38:15Z")
> [@joshmoore](#):
>
> can someone confirm that this hasn’t yet been worked on?
I can confirm it hasn’t yet been worked on 😉 Feel free to PR away.
Highly recommend you do some mockups before digging into the code.
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### Author:  [@loginerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/loginerror)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/8 "2019-10-08T15:58:11Z")
It would be a cool feature to have 😃
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/9 "2020-04-18T19:48:56Z")
I am willing to give this a shot, ill be back with some design suggestions soon.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/10 "2020-04-18T23:21:08Z")
Sure, can you post some mockups?
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/11 "2020-04-18T23:24:47Z")
Yes, i am thinking of design and will show you some mokups.
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/12 "2020-04-19T17:48:23Z")
IMHO i liked last one the most as it can have multiple filters. thoughts?
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### Author:  [@loginerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/loginerror)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/13 "2020-04-19T18:00:01Z")
This looks cool 🙂
Maybe asking too much, but while we’re at it, maybe a filter for the type of notification too? 🙂
(could be in a form of a multiple checkbox drop-down that you can unclick notification types you don’t want to see and the site would remember your preference)
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/14 "2020-04-19T18:31:16Z")
like the last image we can give option for that too in that dropdown
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/15 "2020-04-19T20:10:40Z")
Thanks for the mockups @Ahmed_Gagan, how would you see this work at `/my/notifications`? Or are you envisioning this only in the user menu?
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/16 "2020-04-19T20:33:12Z")
Should I do `/my/notifications` page in a separate PR
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/18 "2020-04-19T20:47:34Z")
I’d make seperate PRs. The design for a full-page interface is likely to be different from one that works in a narrow-width dropdown.
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/20 "2020-04-19T20:50:53Z")
So, ill focus on user menu dropdown in this PR and make another PR for full page interface. thoughts on the mockup?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/21 "2020-04-19T20:51:54Z")
I’m not one with an eye for UX design, best to wait to hear from one of our designers.
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-unread-only-filter/37621/22 "2020-04-19T20:56:42Z")
I would start with the full notifications page PR first. Once that’s done, we can revisit the idea of adding the filters to the notification panel in the header.
We have some concerns that adding the filters to the notification panel in the header is unnecessary at this point.
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