# Mark conversations as read / unread

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/mark-conversations-as-read-unread/10776>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** conversations-inbox\
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/mark-conversations-as-read-unread/10776 "2018-10-31T09:24:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![J-Macc](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/j-macc/32/29368_2.png) [@J-Macc](https://community.hubspot.com/u/J-Macc)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/mark-conversations-as-read-unread/10776/48 "2022-10-18T15:23:09Z")

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Yes, this is such a basic feature in any “Inbox” type of tool that I was stunned that it isn’t in Converations. How hard can this be to accomplish? Isn’t it just flipping a column value on a database table from True to False and vice versa?

This is truly needed.

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