One "trick" I already use is pinning chats which I still need to respond to. That way they appear at the top of the list (on Mac and iOS at least) I can unpin them when I'm done. There's a maximum of 5 pinned chats however.

Then of course there's also the "unread badge", but I don't find it sufficient. Sometimes you need to reply with a quick message only to follow up later (by which time the unread badge is gone), plus with a long list of DMs it's easy to miss a few unread badges especially if they are further down the list.

Ideally Telegram would lift the 5-pinned-messages limit, include an option to "mark as unread" (or otherwise mark a chat), and let you filter only unread chats. AFAIK there are no Mac/iOS clients that have this functionality. Please correct me if I'm wrong :)

There are custom clients but I wouldn't recommend, read for the why. The best way I think is not to reinvent the Telegram for this, but to connect Telegram to a support system, like Intercom or etc, and manage support DMs there.

Otherwise, we would need to copy all the support system features (kanban-like boards, labels, etc) in a Telegram client and reinvent the wheel.

Maybe make wipbot save all the tags you get in WIP to a blank page with a link to each message. Then you can mark them as done there 😅

@pugson Yeah, a simple management system like that would work too! @marckohlbrugge, if didn't find a solution, build this next week? 🙃

I only belong to wip.chat