What Steemit Needs: messages indicator

As I continue to use Steemit, I'm noticing a lack thereof of features I'm looking for, not finding them, and hence I'm left with a feeling of there's something missing.

As I come across these wants and wishlist items I will post them quickly. Hopefully someone with influence sees these posts and considers them or at least cross checks if they are perhaps in development already.

To start this off, my wish list item of the day is a "you've got mail" or "orange mail" indicator. I'd like to know how many direct messages, replies, comment replies, any kind of replies I have. Right now I come to my feed page and don't know who's replied to what or if I have any replies at all. I feel I need to go track down my posts and replies and see if anyone replied to those.

If there's an easier way please let me know!!!