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Star a message

Starring messages is a good way to keep track of important messages, such as tasks you need to go back to or documents you reference often.

Star a message

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Starred messages have a filled in star ( ) to their right.

  1. Hover over a message to reveal three icons on the right.
  2. Click the star ( ) icon.

View your starred messages

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  1. Click on Starred messages (or if the views section is collapsed) in the left sidebar.

Unstar all messages in a topic

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  1. Hover over a topic in the left sidebar.
  2. Click on the ellipsis ( ).
  3. Click Unstar all messages in topic. If you don’t see this option, then you have no starred messages in the selected topic.
  4. Approve by clicking Confirm.

Unstar all messages

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  1. Hover over Starred messages in the views section of the left sidebar.
  2. Click on the ellipsis ( ).
  3. Click Unstar all messages. If you don’t see this option, then you have no starred messages.
  4. Approve by clicking Confirm.

Toggle starred messages counter

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By default, Zulip displays the number of starred messages in the left sidebar; this allows you to use them as an inbox of messages you’d like to come back to. If you are using starred messages for something else and would prefer not to see the count in your left sidebar, you can disable that feature.

  1. Go to Preferences.
  2. Under Left sidebar, toggle Show counts for starred messages.
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