As an active contributor and maintainer of many open source projects on GitHub, I struggle to keep up with the various in-progress issues and pull requests across multiple repositories and find it hard to see an overview of everything I’m involved in. If you manage or contribute to any number projects on GitHub, I’m betting you probably have the same issue.

This is because GitHub Notifications are marked as read and disappear from the list as soon as you load the page or view the email of the notification. This makes it very hard to keep on top of which notifications you still need to follow up on.

Most open source maintainers and even some GitHub staff end up using a complex combination of filters and labels in Gmail to manage their notifications from their inbox. If, like me, you try to avoid email, then you might want to try Octobox.