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 :)
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 :)