# Set category notification state historically

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-category-notification-state-historically/29979>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [14. Juni 2015 um 02:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-category-notification-state-historically/29979 "2015-06-14T02:02:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![AmiAthena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/amiathena/32/116030_2.png) [@AmiAthena](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AmiAthena)\
**Post date:** [14. Juni 2015 um 02:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-category-notification-state-historically/29979/1 "2015-06-14T02:02:43Z")

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Currently, when you change the watching/tracking status of a category, it only applies that status to topics created from that point on.

If you watch a category and then a week later realize that’s too much noise and decide to unwatch it, you are still watching each individual topic that was created during that week. Manually unwatching each one individually is unintuitive and time-consuming.  
There should be an option to apply the status to the _entire_ category, not just new topics.

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