Github PR Attention: A Terminal UI for Taming the PR Inbox

I spend most of my day in a terminal. Editor in one pane, shell in another, maybe a Slack window if I have to. The one thing that constantly pulled me back into a browser tab was GitHub. Specifically: pull requests. Triaging them, reviewing them, leaving a comment, approving, merging. Each of those is a few clicks and a page load away, and across a busy day it adds up to a real tax on attention. So I wrote a tool that scratches that itch. It’s called github-pr-attention, and it’s a small terminal UI written in Go that turns your GitHub PR inbox into something that behaves a lot like a mail client, with vim keys and no mouse required. The Problem GitHub’s web UI is fine, but it is optimized for one PR at a time. If you have ten PRs waiting on you across a few repositories, the workflow looks roughly like: Open the notifications page. Click into a PR. Wait for the page to load. Read the description, scroll through the diff. Approve, comment, or merge. Hit back, repeat. For maintainers…