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I wish Zulip (and other apps) provided an inbox instead of just ephemeral notifications that disappear once a message is viewed. Lack of inbox means that I have to use unread messages as a way to manage my inbox -- because the moment I click on a notification / take a quick peek at a message there's no easy way to mark it for coming back to later.

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+100 for Zulip though; by far the sanest messaging experience for this kind of context.

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terpimost 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is an Inbox view which you can make a default. You can also turn on setting to not mark messages as read automatically

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Semaphor 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I just had a look. I can absolutely understand parent. I’d want an option to include read messages in the inbox, not avoid marking as read. I want a history of stuff in my inbox, the same way discord, my RSS reader, and my email client work. All those have a read and unread state, but I can still see the read ones.

	▲	tabbott 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You may be looking for the recent view (https://zulip.com/help/recent-conversations) which you can also set to be the default/home view for your account. (And administrators can set it to be the default for new users in their organization, if the way your organization communicates is such that it's a better default than inbox).

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tabbott 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Another feature you can use in Zulip for this workflow is starred messages; just star messages that are not done, and then you can browse the starred messages view when you've got some time to follow up on things.

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KPGv2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I heavily use Discord for fan works stuff (I run some major annual fan works projects, like a big bang, charity fundraiser, zine, etc.).

That's how I know Discord has this feature! Top right corner has an @ and it's the "mentions", which is a list of every notification. I couldn't do all the managerial/administrative work on these projects without it.