At the top of your chat list, you'll find a section called Important. Blink automatically moves chats here based on a mix of your own settings and signals it calculates in the background. The good news - you can influence what shows up.
How does Blink decide which chats are important?
Blink marks chats as important based on factors you control (like Favorites, notification settings, and mentions) and factors it calculates automatically (like how often you chat with someone and your relationship strength with contacts). You can influence the Important section by adjusting your Favorites and notification preferences.
✅ Why this matters
• Never miss a message that matters - important chats rise to the top of your list automatically
• You have control - adjust your Favorites and notification settings to influence what Blink considers important
• It learns from you - the more you interact with certain contacts, the more their messages are prioritized
🎛️ What can I control?
These are the factors you can directly influence. Adjusting any of them will change which chats appear in your Important section.
Favorites - any chat you add to your Favorites list is treated as important
Notification settings - chats where you've set notifications to All messages are given higher importance. You can change this per chat in your notification settings
1:1 chats - direct conversations between you and one other person are weighted as more important than group chats
Mentions - when someone @mentions you in a chat, that chat moves to Important
💡 Quick way to control your Important section: Add your most critical chats to Favorites and set their notifications to All messages. These two settings have the strongest influence.
🤖 What does Blink calculate automatically?
Blink also uses signals from your behavior to fine-tune the Important section. You don't control these directly, but they improve over time as you use the app.
Participation frequency - chats you actively send messages in are given higher importance than chats you rarely engage with
Relationship strength - Blink calculates how closely connected you are to each contact based on your overall interaction history. People you chat with frequently across multiple conversations rank higher
The Important section updates automatically as these signals change. You don't need to do anything - Blink adjusts in the background based on how you use the app.
❓ FAQs
Can I turn off the Important section?
Can I turn off the Important section?
No. The Important section is a built-in part of the Blink chat list and cannot be turned off. However, you can influence what appears there by adjusting your Favorites and notification settings.
Can I manually mark a chat as important?
Can I manually mark a chat as important?
There's no manual "mark as important" button, but you can achieve the same result by adding the chat to your Favorites or setting its notifications to All messages. Both of these tell Blink to treat that chat as important.
Why did a chat I rarely use appear in Important?
Why did a chat I rarely use appear in Important?
This usually happens because someone @mentioned you in the chat, or because the person messaging has a high relationship strength score with you (meaning you interact with them frequently in other conversations). The chat will move out of Important over time if you don't continue to engage with it.
🚀 What's next?
Now you understand how Important works, here's how to get more from your chats:
Understand your options - Chats and Channels
Mark your key conversations - Favorites
Fine-tune your alerts - Managing your notification settings
Keep things tidy - Managing your inbox