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Preview GitHub activity in notifications without marking them as read

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Using the GitHub Notifications API it should be possible to create a little popover like the one below to show unseen activity using the last_read_at date.

screen shot 2016-07-26 at 1 09 13 pm

One of the biggest problems I have with lots of GitHub notifications is viewing them without marking them as read. Emails help this but they tend to get buried and are not organized by user/repo. GitHub notifications could use some love

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:5
Comments:17 (15 by maintainers)

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jamestalmagecommented, Jul 31, 2016

Ooh. If that’s on the table, let’s add a marker on the notifications page that differentiates notifications where you are @-mentioned. I would love to be able to prioritize what I read that way

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sindresorhuscommented, Jul 26, 2016

Love it! I have the same issue as @thejameskyle. We can do public repos first and see.

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