# Total number of unread Notifications **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Tags:** notifications\ **Created:** [February 3, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/total-number-of-unread-notifications/1338 "2021-02-03T06:33:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![B\_Sp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/total-number-of-unread-notifications/1338/1 "2021-02-03T06:33:08Z")
Hi, In order to track notifications that I need to respond to, I’ll often set them as “unread.” Ideally I’d like to “star” them like in Gmail, or have some other more organic way to “save” those that need responding to, after they are actually read. However with the lack of such solutions, simply marking as “unread” is sufficient. I find though I have trouble keeping track of how many I have unread. So I’d like to suggest a small addition of a total number of unread notifications in the Notifications area, around here: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/5/51654a425c16b30a1a1b03bb17daf80d66350ce7.png) Perhaps this could be part of an upcoming “Inbox” solution, that in a distant iteration in an ideal world might even include checklist items that need attention, if you guys decided to develop a more sophisticated [extension for Checklists.](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-ability-to-add-in-line-dates-w-notifications-rich-text-documents-comments/917), which I was glad to see @oshyan bring up again [here](https://community.fibery.io/t/read-only-documents/1286/14) today. This would also work well obviously with this request: > [@\[APPROVED\] Mention notification UI improvement](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-mention-notification-ui-improvement/796/7): > > Wanted to flag this up again, this well-written comment describes the problem I am having on a daily basis, too: For context, I am really missing the concept of a “Watcher”: In most Work Mgmt stuff like Jira, Asana, etc. you can be added as a “watcher” and you get notifications about key activity in an Entity, for example a comment that is not specifically @mentioned to you, or when status changes. In Notion, you can be added as a “share” and at least you get some notifications, like when … I noticed here we had some guidance re: release of some Notification improments: > [@\[APPROVED\] Mention notification UI improvement](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-mention-notification-ui-improvement/796/8): > > I hope we will get back to Notifications somewhere in Jan 2021, maybe earlier. Main things to improve will be: so hoping this is not far off! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 7:00am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/total-number-of-unread-notifications/1338/2 "2021-02-03T07:00:07Z")
While this is ultimately multiple requests (in the text/body), I definitely think an easier and shorter-term improvement would be the core/title feature request. So I just wanted to put some support behind that, adding a simple number indicator for how many unread notifications. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![B\_Sp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/total-number-of-unread-notifications/1338/3 "2021-02-03T14:14:41Z")
OK thanks. Yes, much to talk about re: Notifications, sorry got caught up highlighting some other big needs. Glad to get the support on this though! ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/total-number-of-unread-notifications/1338/4 "2021-02-03T22:30:23Z")
Big upvote for a **unified Inbox** that would include all notifications I subscribe to – - new messages - @mentions - updates to comment threads or - changes to entities that are being **watched** - newly-created entities in watched apps/DBs/smart folders - etc. Could a smart folder do this?? ---
**Author:** ![B\_Sp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/total-number-of-unread-notifications/1338/5 "2021-02-04T03:07:27Z")
Great to see support for all this, it is badly needed and hoping we will see more and more users trying to replace some typical Work Mgmt stuff with Fibery, in which case your list is essential. And sorry I misunderstood over in the other thread, but appreciate the dialog all the same 🙂 And by the way, I have posted the request to “watch” entities, which you cannot do right now: > [@\[DONE\] "Watcher" of an Entity](https://community.fibery.io/t/watcher-of-an-entity-use-the-assignment-extension/563): > > Hi guys, I was interested in creating the equivalent functionality of “watcher” that is offered by a lot of PM apps around their tasks and entities. This is a user who is “subscribed” to an entity’s activity - so they are informed when any status changes, fields are adjusted, comments are made, and so forth. Can I use the “assignment” extension to create this functionality? Or would I need to do this another way if that extension needs to be reserved for only actual assignees? Thanks guys! Given how early-stage this is with Fibery still, could you please add a “heart,” as from what the team has said, each and every “heart” here in Discourse is counted, so you’ll go a long way to seeing the ability to “watch” developed sooner! Thanks again!