# Separate notifications and account options

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-notifications-and-account-options/294616>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [February 7, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-notifications-and-account-options/294616 "2024-02-07T23:41:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![schneeland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schneeland/32/275391_2.png) [@schneeland](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schneeland)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/separate-notifications-and-account-options/294616/6 "2024-02-08T22:43:47Z")

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Separating the different aspects of the personal menu seems like a good idea indeed.  
And I think the changes in the Central theme that @Arkshine highlighted go into the right direction.  
There’s three things I would add:

1. I think that personal messages should get their separate space, too (well, fundamentally I believe chat and personal messages should be merged into one thing, but that’s another story)
2. At least for me, even in the Central theme, I still get bookmarks in the notification menu (screenshot below), and I feel they belong either only to the user menu (as proposed by the OP) or to the side bar (if the user menu is to become a “profile/setting only” thing).
3. While we’re at it: since “replies”, “likes”, “badges”, etc. are effectively filters on the full notification list, they IMO should go to the top of the notification area (or maybe just be discarded completely).

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/d/9/1d9c0db0d5084254781ddbd5c91f1c1435b77a55.png)

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