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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 topics

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From the list of streams

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Reading topics

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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 get to a stream with q (stream search), by clicking on the magnifying glass next to STREAMS, or by using the autocomplete in search.

All messages

If you're all caught up, it can be useful to have a single place to keep track of all messages coming in.

Click on All messages in the upper left, or hit a.
You can use s (narrow to stream) or S (narrow to topic) to zoom in, and a to get back to All messages.

Starring messages for later

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

Getting started with Zulip
Recent topics
Search for streams, topics, or messages.

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