# Remember last read post after navigating to a notification **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [May 22, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remember-last-read-post-after-navigating-to-a-notification/152371 "2020-05-22T19:17:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**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:** [May 22, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remember-last-read-post-after-navigating-to-a-notification/152371/3 "2020-05-22T23:27:50Z")
To be clear, this is a self-inflicted wound by the user. They are reading a topic, then the notification they click or tap on, jumps them forward in the topic. We always track the “lowest” or “bottom” reading position in a topic. That’s what the little back button does on the vertical timeline. We don’t track “reading holes” primarily because it becomes a UI nightmare 😉 About the best I can think of is a dialog that says “are you sure you want to jump forward in this topic and lose your place?” when you initiate navigation to a lower / deeper post in the topic. That might be just as annoying, though, if not more annoying, than losing your place .. I’m not sure? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remember-last-read-post-after-navigating-to-a-notification/152371)._