Octobox
What Gmail did for email, Octobox does for GitHub notifications: an ephemeral, unmanageable
stream becomes an inbox you can actually triage. GitHub marks notifications read the moment
you glance at them and lets old ones vanish days later; heavy maintainers end up building
elaborate Gmail filter systems just to cope. Octobox - a Ruby on Rails app over PostgreSQL -
syncs your notifications into a persistent inbox with an explicit archived state: mark a
thread done, and if the issue or PR sees new activity, it pops back automatically, so nothing
silently falls through. Triage is keyboard-driven with Gmail-style shortcuts (j/k to navigate,
e to archive, m to mute, s to star), and multi-select clears noisy repositories in bulk.
Filtering is where it earns its keep: slice by repository, organization, type, action, state,
reason, CI status, labels, author, assignee, or bot origin, combine prefix search filters, and
pin favorite searches to the sidebar. The optional GitHub App enriches entries with live PR/CI
status and labels so you can decide without clicking through. Auto-archive rules clear merged
PRs and closed issues; muting and snoozing silence the rest. A REST API supports integrations.
Self-hosting keeps your notification metadata - a map of everything you work on - on your own
server.
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