Description
Your use case
What would you like to do?
searching through the spaces I have, without marking messages as read in chats I do not want to open nor read now.
Why would you like to do it?
To keep having these chats & messages appear as unread to me & the other person. And to have a lower stress level.
How would you like to achieve it?
Make it so that when switching spaces by clicking on an icon in the left sidebar, no chat should be opened, instead the space overview should be opened.
Have you considered any alternatives?
One already can mark the chat unread again, but this is not the same, as
- the other user still sees & thinks that I have read his message now
- the notifications on my phone do not reappear again
- (in some cases) Element can no longer hint me to the oldest message I have not read yet (esp. bad in group chats where I not always need to answer)
Additional context
I use unread messages as a kind of inbox / low level task list. So I avoid marking messages as read, so the other party knows I currently do not have the time to deal with their message. But if I am currently stressed with something else, which requires me to open Element to open another chat, it makes me even more stressed when Element suddenly opens the last chat I have opened in the space I am switching to, without me wanting to open that chat, which then triggers these messages as marked again.