Notification Sections

Notification Section Options (`notificationsSections`)

Defines sections in the dashboard’s Notifications view.

Every section must define a title and filters.
When you define limit for a section, that value overrides the defaults.notificationsLimit setting.

Search Section

The Notifications view includes a search section (indicated by a magnifying glass icon) as the first tab. This serves as a scratchpad for one-off searches without modifying your configured sections.

Default filter: archived:false
Respects smartFilteringAtLaunch: when enabled and running from a git repository, the search automatically scopes to that repo
Use the / key to focus the search bar and enter custom queries

Default Sections

By default, the dashboard includes these notification sections:

notificationsSections:
  - title: All
    filters: ""
  - title: Created
    filters: "reason:author"
  - title: Participating
    filters: "reason:participating"
  - title: Mentioned
    filters: "reason:mention"
  - title: Review Requested
    filters: "reason:review-requested"
  - title: Assigned
    filters: "reason:assign"
  - title: Subscribed
    filters: "reason:subscribed"
  - title: Team Mentioned
    filters: "reason:team-mention"

You can customize these by defining your own notificationsSections in your config file.

Notification Title (`title`)

This setting defines the section’s name. The dashboard displays this value in the tabs for the Notifications view.

Notification Filters (`filters`)

This setting defines the filters for notifications in the section’s table. Notification filters differ from PR and Issue filters because they use client-side filtering.

Available Filters

Read State Filters

Filter	Description
`is:unread`	Show only unread notifications
`is:read`	Show only read notifications
`is:all`	Show both read and unread notifications
`is:done`	Show archived/done notifications

Reason Filters

Filter	Description
`reason:author`	Activity on threads you created
`reason:comment`	Someone commented on a thread you’re subscribed to
`reason:mention`	You were @mentioned
`reason:review-requested`	Your review was requested on a PR
`reason:assign`	You were assigned
`reason:subscribed`	Activity on threads you’re watching
`reason:team-mention`	Your team was @mentioned
`reason:state-change`	Thread state changed (merged, closed, etc.)
`reason:ci-activity`	CI workflow activity
`reason:participating`	Meta-filter that expands to: author, comment, mention, review-requested, assign, state-change

Repository Filters

Filter	Description
`repo:owner/name`	Show notifications only from the specified repository

Filter Examples

# Show only notifications where you were mentioned
- title: Mentioned
  filters: "reason:mention"

# Show unread notifications from a specific repo
- title: My Project
  filters: "is:unread repo:myorg/myproject"

# Show notifications where you're actively participating
- title: Participating
  filters: "reason:participating"

# Combine multiple reason filters
- title: Review & Mentions
  filters: "reason:review-requested reason:mention"

Filter Behavior

Default behavior: With no filters or empty filters, the section shows unread notifications plus any bookmarked notifications
Explicit is:unread: Shows only unread notifications, excluding bookmarked read notifications
Reason filters: Applied client-side after fetching from GitHub’s API

Notification Fetch Limit (`limit`)

Type	Minimum	Default
Integer	1	20

This setting defines how many notifications the dashboard should fetch for the section when:

The dashboard first loads.
You navigate to the next notification in a table without another fetched notification to display.
You use the refresh current section or refresh all sections commands.

This setting overrides the defaults.notificationsLimit setting.