docs/content/account-and-profile/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/viewing-and-triaging-notifications/managing-notifications-from-your-inbox.md

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Managing notifications from your inbox	Use your inbox to quickly triage and sync your notifications across email{% ifversion fpt or ghes or ghec %} and mobile{% endif %}.	/articles/marking-notifications-as-read /articles/saving-notifications-for-later /github/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/managing-notifications-from-your-inbox /github/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/viewing-and-triaging-notifications/managing-notifications-from-your-inbox	fpt ghes ghae ghec * * * *	Notifications	Manage from your inbox

About your inbox

{% ifversion fpt or ghes or ghec %} {% data reusables.notifications-v2.notifications-inbox-required-setting %} For more information, see "Configuring notifications." {% endif %}

To access your notifications inbox, in the upper-right corner of any page, click {% octicon "bell" aria-label="The notifications bell" %}.

Your inbox shows all of the notifications that you haven't unsubscribed to or marked as Done. You can customize your inbox to best suit your workflow using filters, viewing all or just unread notifications, and grouping your notifications to get a quick overview.

By default, your inbox will show read and unread notifications. To only see unread notifications, click Unread or use the is:unread query.

Triaging options

You have several options for triaging notifications from your inbox.

Triaging option	Description
Save	Saves your notification for later review. To save a notification, to the right of the notification, click {% octicon "bookmark" aria-label="The bookmark icon" %}. Saved notifications are kept indefinitely and can be viewed by clicking Saved in the sidebar or with the is:saved query. If your saved notification is older than 5 months and becomes unsaved, the notification will disappear from your inbox within a day.
Done	Marks a notification as completed and removes the notification from your inbox. You can see all completed notifications by clicking Done in the sidebar or with the is:done query. Notifications marked as Done are saved for 5 months.
Unsubscribe	Automatically removes the notification from your inbox and unsubscribes you from the conversation until you are @mentioned, a team you're on is @mentioned, or you're requested for review.
Read	Marks a notification as read. To only view read notifications in your inbox, use the is:read query. This query doesn't include notifications marked as Done.
Unread	Marks notification as unread. To only view unread notifications in your inbox, use the is:unread query.

To see the available keyboard shortcuts, see "Keyboard Shortcuts."

Before choosing a triage option, you can preview your notification's details first and investigate. For more information, see "Triaging a single notification."

Triaging multiple notifications at the same time

To triage multiple notifications at once, select the relevant notifications and use the {% octicon "kebab-horizontal" aria-label="The edit icon" %} drop-down to choose a triage option.

Default notification filters

By default, your inbox has filters for when you are assigned, participating in a thread, requested to review a pull request, or when your username is @mentioned directly or a team you're a member of is @mentioned.

Customizing your inbox with custom filters

You can add up to 15 of your own custom filters.

{% data reusables.notifications.access_notifications %} 2. To open the filter settings, in the left sidebar, next to "Filters", click {% octicon "gear" aria-label="The Gear icon" %}.

{% tip %}

Tip: You can quickly preview a filter's inbox results by creating a query in your inbox view and clicking Save, which opens the custom filter settings.

{% endtip %}

3. Add a name for your filter and a filter query. For example, to only see notifications for a specific repository, you can create a filter using the query repo:octocat/open-source-project-name reason:participating. You can also add emojis with a native emoji keyboard. For a list of supported search queries, see "Supported queries for custom filters."

4. Click Create.

Custom filter limitations

Custom filters do not currently support:

• Full text search in your inbox, including searching for pull request or issue titles.
• Distinguishing between the is:issue, is:pr, and is:pull-request query filters. These queries will return both issues and pull requests.
• Creating more than 15 custom filters.
• Changing the default filters or their order.
• Search exclusion using NOT or -QUALIFIER.

Supported queries for custom filters

These are the types of filters that you can use:

• Filter by repository with repo:
• Filter by discussion type with is:
• Filter by notification reason with reason:{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}
• Filter by notification author with author:
• Filter by organization with org:{% endif %}

Supported repo: queries

To add a repo: filter, you must include the owner of the repository in the query: repo:owner/repository. An owner is the organization or the user who owns the {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} asset that triggers the notification. For example, repo:octo-org/octo-repo will show notifications triggered in the octo-repo repository within the octo-org organization.

Supported is: queries

To filter notifications for specific activity on {% data variables.product.product_location %}, you can use the is query. For example, to only see repository invitation updates, use is:repository-invitation{% ifversion not ghae %}, and to only see {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %}, use is:repository-vulnerability-alert{% endif %}.

• is:check-suite
• is:commit
• is:gist
• is:issue-or-pull-request
• is:release
• is:repository-invitation
• is:repository-vulnerability-alert{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}
• is:repository-advisory{% endif %}
• is:team-discussion{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}
• is:discussion{% endif %}

For information about reducing noise from notifications for {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %}, see "Configuring notifications for {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %}."

You can also use the is: query to describe how the notification was triaged.

• is:saved
• is:done
• is:unread
• is:read

Supported reason: queries

To filter notifications by why you've received an update, you can use the reason: query. For example, to see notifications when you (or a team you're on) is requested to review a pull request, use reason:review-requested. For more information, see "About notifications."

Query	Description
reason:assign	When there's an update on an issue or pull request you've been assigned to.
reason:author	When you opened a pull request or issue and there has been an update or new comment.
reason:comment	When you commented on an issue, pull request, or team discussion.
reason:participating	When you have commented on an issue, pull request, or team discussion or you have been @mentioned.
reason:invitation	When you're invited to a team, organization, or repository.
reason:manual	When you click Subscribe on an issue or pull request you weren't already subscribed to.
reason:mention	You were directly @mentioned.
reason:review-requested	You or a team you're on have been requested to review a pull request.
reason:security-alert	When a security alert is issued for a repository.
reason:state-change	When the state of a pull request or issue is changed. For example, an issue is closed or a pull request is merged.
reason:team-mention	When a team you're a member of is @mentioned.
reason:ci-activity	When a repository has a CI update, such as a new workflow run status.

{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}

Supported author: queries

To filter notifications by user, you can use the author: query. An author is the original author of the thread (issue, pull request, gist, discussions, and so on) for which you are being notified. For example, to see notifications for threads created by the Octocat user, use author:octocat.

Supported org: queries

To filter notifications by organization, you can use the org query. The organization you need to specify in the query is the organization of the repository for which you are being notified on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}. This query is useful if you belong to several organizations, and want to see notifications for a specific organization.

For example, to see notifications from the octo-org organization, use org:octo-org.

{% endif %}

{% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot %} custom filters

{% ifversion fpt or ghec or ghes > 3.2 %} If you use {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot %} to keep your dependencies up-to-date, you can use and save these custom filters:

• is:repository_vulnerability_alert to show notifications for {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %}.
• reason:security_alert to show notifications for {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %} and security update pull requests.
• author:app/dependabot to show notifications generated by {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot %}. This includes {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %}, security update pull requests, and version update pull requests.

For more information about {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot %}, see "About {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %}." {% endif %}

{% ifversion ghes < 3.3 or ghae %}

If you use {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot %} to tell you about insecure dependencies, you can use and save these custom filters to show notifications for {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %}:

• is:repository_vulnerability_alert
• reason:security_alert

For more information about {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot %}, see "About {% data variables.product.prodname_dependabot_alerts %}." {% endif %}