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Sometimes my pull requests end up with dozens of comments and the interface starts breaking down. Between hiding comments and no easy way to keep track of what I've read, I miss important details. I've asked folks at GitHub for an Outlook-style view, and I finally decided to build my own.

30/9/26, 9:41 pm1 repost10 likes

Nicholas C. Zakas

@humanwhocodes.com

Introducing PR Comment Inbox. The idea is simple: you see comment threads on the left and click them to view all the comments in the thread on the right. You can reply, apply suggestions, and then mark the thread as read to remove it from the list.

Nicholas C. Zakas

@humanwhocodes.com

It even works for top-level comments, where it uses @-mentions to try and find similar comments to thread together. You can work through top-level and inline comments in a similar way. I've been using this the past week and it's made me a lot more productive.