Summary
A concept demonstrating how to retrieve Telegram messages through tagging which was developed to address a common issue among many users.
Chatting with my friends, I might need to save things like poems, dialogues, music and movies titles to refer to them later. I used to do this by Telegram Saved Messages, but it’s not sufficient since I store variant information there and after a while, it gets messed up and inaccessible even using search!
What’s the problem?
Absence of a particular section to store specific messages
Goal
To create a section in which users can categorize their messages there
Metric
Single member channels reduction
Audio and video messages in Saved Messages and hashtags reduction
Design
Following sections suggest a design to address the matter
Users behavior to solve the problem
User 1 solution
Creating private channels for each and every subject
Cons
It’s hard to find variant channels among all chats
Creating channel is time-consuming
User 2 solution
By pinning the desired message
Cons
Forgetting hashtags
Highly possible to forget people that you’ve talked to about the subject
User 3 solution
Forwarding the message to the Saved Messages and adding #hashtag
Cons
Creating #hashtag is time-consuming
Forgetting hashtags
My Solution
My solution is a design feature for telegram. I called it the Tag feature. We will have a new page with tags and chat screens. Users can create a tag with personal color and name for example Book, Movie Poet, etc. On the chat page, users can add a bubble to the tag. The bubble color will be changed to a tag color. Users could see all categories and bubbles in the tag pages in the menu. Let’s go to see.
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Conclusion
This feature enables users to save any important message within a pre-made personal category. In the future, we can add sharing capability to share categories with others.
Update 2024
I designed this feature in March 2022, and now Telegram has added this feature in 2024 for premium users.