# Private category for each user

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-category-for-each-user/305972>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 29, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-category-for-each-user/305972 "2024-04-29T17:58:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-category-for-each-user/305972/11 "2024-05-01T00:07:37Z")

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> [@jgl](#):
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> I’d like that each user of my community have their own private space where they can write whatever topic they want in a private way. To use it as a personal diary, thoughts that maybe they would like to share later, or as they want. Anybody else can neither see any list of topics or reach the content through a direct URL, unless the owner of the topic decides to invite other people to the topic through an invitation to join a specific topic.

Hello :blob_wave: and welcome to Discourse Meta 🙂

I just want to reiterate what others have said. you can pretty much achieve what you have described via PMs and tags. I have a personal work inbox setup that does this. I have multiple self-pms that work like cover page to other pms. I use tags like sub-folders but even better, because some posts can be in more than one tag. I have links to what I need in my inbox self-pm tools in my sidebar custom menu.

If your forum is like less than 50 users, sure user categories or subcategories would be sort of manageable. any more and it’s likely going to start getting unwieldily.

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