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Reading strategies

In Zulip, streams determine who gets a message. Topics tell you what the message is about. If you are not yet familiar with Zulip's topics, we recommend first reading about streams and topics.

This article details a few ways to efficiently read through messages in Zulip.

Topic by topic

Like your email inbox, for most users, Zulip works best if you read it topic-by-topic.

Finding a topic to read

From Recent conversations

{!recent-conversations.md!}

From the list of streams

{!left-sidebar-topics.md!}

Reading topics

{!reading-topics.md!}

Stream view

Sometimes it's useful to scroll through all the messages in a stream, especially in situations where you just want a general idea of what's going on.

  • Click on a stream name in the left sidebar, and scroll using your mouse, the arrow keys, End, or page up/down.

  • Click on a topic to narrow to messages from that topic.

You can also search for a stream by clicking on STREAMS in the left sidebar, or using the Q keyboard shortcut.

All messages

{!all-messages.md!}

Starring messages for later

You can star messages that you've seen and would like to reply to later.