Morning Board

Good morning. Here is what needs you today.

Morning Board is a desktop widget for your Mac. Pull requests waiting on you, CI for the repositories you care about, the rest of today's calendar and your top reminders, in one glance and across every GitHub account you use.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store See what it shows For macOS 14 Sonoma and later

Four things you check every morning, stacked in one widget

Each part works on its own. If one source is unavailable, only that part says so; the rest keeps updating.

The extra large Morning Board widget: pull requests and CI on the left, today's calendar and reminders on the right.

  • Pull requests

    Reviews requested from you come first, then your own pull requests where someone else spoke last, then the rest by last update. The order is fixed, so it never looks shuffled.

  • CI status

    Only the repositories you choose to follow. Each row shows the most recently pushed branch and whether its checks passed, failed or are still running.

  • Today

    The rest of today from the Calendar app, so the iCloud, Google and Exchange calendars you already added to macOS appear without another sign-in.

  • To-do

    Your top reminders from the Reminders app, earliest due first. Click the circle to complete one without opening anything.

Personal and work, together or apart

Add a token for each login, and for each organization whose repositories you want: a fine-grained token reaches one owner, so one login can be connected more than once. Each connection updates on its own, and one failing never stops the others.

The widget merging two accounts, with a blue and an orange initial on each row.

All accounts in one widget

The default. Every row carries a colored initial so you can tell which account it came from.

A dark widget showing only the work account.

One account per widget

Pick an account in Edit Widget and put work on one side of the desktop, personal on the other.

When it cannot reach GitHub, it says so

A dashboard that quietly shows old data as if it were current is worse than no dashboard. Morning Board keeps the last good data, shows when it was fetched, and names the problem for the one account or module it affects.

The widget with an offline account, an expired account and calendar access turned off, each labelled on its own row.
GitHub connection expired, click to reconnect
The token was revoked or expired. Only that account is affected, and one click takes you to reconnect it.
Offline, showing cached data
No network. You see the last data with the time it was fetched, not a blank widget.
Hidden by organization policy
A work organization has not approved the token. Just that repository is marked; the rest are unaffected.
Calendar access not allowed, click to open settings
The calendar part waits for permission. Pull requests, CI and reminders keep working.

Read-only, with nothing in between

You create a fine-grained token that can only read the repositories you select. It is kept in your Mac's Keychain and sent to api.github.com and nowhere else. There is no Morning Board server, account or sign-up.

Read the token setup guide

The token needs

  • Metadata Read-only required by GitHub for any repository access
  • Pull requests Read-only your review requests and your own PRs
  • Commit statuses Read-only the pass or fail mark next to each PR
  • Actions Read-only CI runs for the repositories you follow

GitHub renames permissions now and then. The setup guide explains what each one is for, so you can match it on the page you see.

Guides

Practical notes on GitHub tokens, Mac widgets and staying on top of reviews. English only.

Start the day knowing what is waiting

Connect an account, pick the repositories to follow, and add the widget from Edit Widgets.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store For macOS 14 Sonoma and later