How it works

At its core, Skipper is a smart, tiny inbox for managing your Github notifications. It does a bunch of clever things — both small and large — to make your notifications meaningful and easy to go through.

Our secret sauce is a careful combination of filtering, processing, and restructuring all of your notifications to create a new, more useful system.

1. Filtering — Removing bad notifications

We start off by removing all notifications that don't mean anything to you. We do this using a proprietary algorithm that we've developed over the past 3+ years.

2. Processing — Sorting & ranking

Once we have these meaningful notifications, we process them to understand how important they are to you. Again, we do this by using a proprietary algorithm that we've developed over the past 5+ years.

3. Restructuring — Merging into branches

Finally, we restructure these notifications into groups based on their branch to avoid needless context switching.

4. Inbox — Putting it all together

Finally, we restructure these notifications into groups based on their branch to avoid needless context switching.