# View own topics only

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/view-own-topics-only/102665
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 24, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/view-own-topics-only/102665 "2018-11-24T13:52:25Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/view-own-topics-only/102665/2 "2018-11-24T14:09:37Z")

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You can’t have topic-specific permissions in a regular category, no.

The best way to do this is using a ‘group inbox’. There are a few descriptions of how this works - here’s one comparison of categories and group inboxes:

> [@When to use personal messages, group inboxes and secure categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-to-use-personal-messages-group-inboxes-and-secure-categories/70464):
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> I wrote the post below in the moderators lounge on my site, and thought I’d share it here as potential faq material and to explore how others are using these features and the reasons why. We have been brainstorming over the last several weeks (months?) about when to use personal messages, group inboxes and secure categories on discourse. Here’s a very brief breakdown which I hope will help clarify what is possible and which approach to use when. Happy to discuss and come to a shared understan…

We describe how ‘team Discourse’ use group inboxes in this blog post:

> **[How Does Team Discourse Use Discourse?](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/)**
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> As we claim on our website, we use Discourse as our primary team coordination tool to build… Discourse!

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