# Option to track all new posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-track-all-new-posts/35842
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [2015年十一月20日 15:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-track-all-new-posts/35842 "2015-11-20T15:33:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ky\_metro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ky_metro)
#### Post date: [2015年十一月20日 15:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-track-all-new-posts/35842/1 "2015-11-20T15:33:36Z")
Some fanatical types will want to read every post on a forum. I certainly do.
Currently the way to do this is to go in User Preferences and manually enter every category into the “Tracked” box. Besides being a real pain, it’s hard to teach users to do this. And, if a new category is added, it has to be manually added to this list as well.
Can we have a “Track all” option, that will cover all current and future categories automatically?
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### Author:  [@ky\_metro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ky_metro)
#### Post date: [2015年十一月20日 15:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-track-all-new-posts/35842/2 "2015-11-20T15:46:14Z")
OK, I hate it when this happens… I think I found the answer to my own question (AFTER I posted… )
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/marking-all-new-topics-as-new/27451](https://meta.discourse.org/t/marking-all-new-topics-as-new/27451)
For anyone else wondering, You need to:
- Set **Consider topics new when** to “I haven’t viewed them yet” (this is the default)
- Set **Automatically track topics I enter** to “immediately”
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [2015年十一月20日 15:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-track-all-new-posts/35842/3 "2015-11-20T15:50:25Z")
Do you want notifications for every category, for _every_ post created?
Or did you want a simple visual cue in the topic listings, as was my problem in the post linked above? That you never touched the topic as of yet in that moment of time?
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### Author:  [@ky\_metro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ky_metro)
#### Post date: [2015年十一月20日 15:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-track-all-new-posts/35842/4 "2015-11-20T15:56:44Z")
Just the visual cue, “something new to read!” Not a notification, that would be annoying.
When I imported an old forum earlier this year, all the old topics were un-tracked, and I had some issues tracking them when new replies to old topics showed up. That’s why I ended up tracking all categories.
On a “new” forum without a large backlog of old posts, this is unnecessary.
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [2015年十一月20日 16:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-track-all-new-posts/35842/5 "2015-11-20T16:08:20Z")
Aye, by setting every single future topic “to be tracked”, that equals a lot of bells and whistles going off you would not wish upon your users. 😬
My fix came eventually; not directly.
Since I started that topic you linked above, the UI now colors the titles of topics not yet entered in the topic listings.
**EDIT** – In further hyperfocused thought, “read previously” is analogous to “topic that was created pre-registration”. Either way, a black title sans 🆕 tells me there’s content to plunder I have not yet thoroughly plundered. Context and whatever my inhibited organic memory managed to save in browsing will let me know if this is “read previously; has new posts not seen yet” _or_ “this topic predates me (`*grunt*`) via registration date, but it got some goods _you_ have yet to predate.” I consider my initial gripe in the aforementioned topic resolved. And much obliged for that–Discourse Dev Team and Volunteers–considering I made this edit in pure _elation_ over these now-default visual, immediate prompts to denote distances in time for topics and the replies within; something that eluded me prior from my lack of natural cognitive awareness for time itself.)