Morning BoardEvery way to see what is waiting for your review
Review requests are the pull requests other people are blocked on. GitHub already has several ways to list them; here is what each shows and where each falls short.
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On github.com
The pull requests page at github.com/pulls/review-requested lists open pull requests that request your review, across every repository you can see. It is the quickest check and needs nothing installed.
The same list is a search you can refine:
is:open is:pr archived:false review-requested:@me
review-requested:@me includes requests made to a team you belong to. To see only requests addressed to you personally, use user-review-requested:@me instead. Swap in author:@me to list your own open pull requests.
In a terminal
With the GitHub CLI installed and signed in, these give the same answers:
gh search prs --review-requested=@me --state=open gh status
gh status prints review requests, mentions and assigned work across your repositories in one summary. Inside a repository, gh pr status shows the pull requests there that involve you.
Notifications
GitHub sends a notification when your review is requested, but a notification is an event, not a list. Once it is marked as read, or buried under a busy repository's traffic, nothing reminds you that the pull request is still waiting. Notifications are good for knowing the moment a request arrives, and poor for knowing what is still open.
A standing view
What the search and the CLI have in common is that you have to go and look. A desktop widget turns the same query into something you see without asking. Morning Board runs exactly the search above for each connected account, puts review requests first, then your own pull requests where someone else replied last, and shows CI state next to each one.
Whichever method you use, the useful habit is the same: check review requests before starting your own work, because every one of them is someone else waiting on you.