Appreciate the reply! I knew about both methods but just wondering if there's an even more straight-forward way that I might have miss out on. The second method that you suggested work well if you check the thread again shortly after posting your own message and there's not much replies else you will still have to dig through all the comments.
If you use a pc to access the bitcointalk account, you only need to bookmark the page where you submit your post, reply, qoute, so when you want to look back is there a reply from your question, you can just click the bookmark, and you no longer need to find where is pages your time sending post.