# Topic timer notification icon
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** topic-timers
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304 "2019-01-23T15:26:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Loki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Loki)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/1 "2019-01-23T15:26:10Z")
On our site, the notification icon for a user topic timer (“remind me”) is  . A better icon, I think, would be a clock symbol. Is there a way to change that in admin?
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/2 "2019-01-23T16:58:59Z")
Hmm, I see a different icon for the “remind me” option:
Can you post a screenshot of your scenario?
Also, see [Change icons globally](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-icons-globally-using-the-apis/87751) for more details on how to replace icons.
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/4 "2019-01-23T17:01:45Z")
I believe @Loki is talking about the icon that shows up in Notifications.
My first instinct about the change is that the hand is very distinct from the other icons (we already have a few that are similar in shape) so that’s a benefit.
BUT I am generally nowhere near UX design (rather, I just have lots of opinions), so YMMV 🙂
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### Author:  [@Loki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Loki)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/5 "2019-01-23T17:21:00Z")
Correct. I’m referring to the icon that shows up in the actual notification, like this:
The hand icon makes me think, referral or pointer rather than time based reminder. I’d much rather see the click icon that shows up when you create the reminder as in @pmusaraj’s screenshot. I think that would also be more consistent.
I’ll take a look at the API link.
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/6 "2019-01-23T17:41:18Z")
Ah, then I think this is doable via a theme customization:
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(The API link is still useful, but this is a bit of a special case.)
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### Author:  [@Loki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Loki)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/7 "2019-01-23T17:42:23Z")
@mtan Can we do this?
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### Author:  [@mtan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mtan)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/8 "2019-01-23T21:25:18Z")
@pmusaraj How long will this work take, if we will just inject this code, should be simple enough?
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/9 "2019-01-23T22:35:18Z")
Yeah, it’s pretty straightforward, I set up a [PR](https://github.com/wyzelabs/discourse-wyze-theme/pull/5) on your repo, just merge that and update.
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### Author:  [@Loki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Loki)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/10 "2019-01-23T23:31:44Z")
I see the icon is now a clock on our site. Very cool @mtan and @pmusaraj. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/11 "2019-01-24T08:25:21Z")
I actually think this is a great idea for a core feature, so let’s just put it in core. The clock icon _does_ make more sense to show in the notifications when a timer reminds you about a topic. The finger can remain for manual invites to a topic by other users.
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### Author:  [@Loki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Loki)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/12 "2019-01-24T11:49:08Z")
Perfect! Makes total sense to me!
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/13 "2019-01-24T15:09:37Z")
Done in [UX: change topic reminder notification icon · discourse/discourse@755b47b · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/755b47b4bcf2dff27b25531a259fd5d6a2896ddd)
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-notification-icon/107304/14 "2019-01-24T15:09:41Z")