Inkling 0.1.3

What's new

Fewer interruptions

• A thread that moves twice no longer tells you the same thing twice. A push landing after a review is reported as the push, not as the review again — and a pull request can no longer be announced as merged more than once.
• New commits on a pull request are their own kind, showing how much arrived since you were last told. Pushes to your own stay quiet unless you ask for them.
• Comments and approvals that land after something was merged or closed stay quiet, as does activity on someone else's draft, and a pull request you merged yourself. Being named still reaches you.
• A review request on something that was merged before you got to it now says so, instead of claiming you had already reviewed it.

Muting

• Mute unless someone names me: silences a thread for everything except an @mention, your team, or a reply to you.
• A mute can be set to lift when something breaks through, or to survive it.

Seeing what Inkling did

• Hover the Inkling name for how much arrived, how often it actually interrupted you, and how much was filtered — split into what a setting of yours turned away and what Inkling judged.
• Activity on a notification shows what you did first; the rest is behind Show details.

Settings

• How long things are kept is now yours to set: filtered rows, things you finished, and the record of what was decided.
• Every setting that also needs something switched on at GitHub now says which, with a link to it — checks, Dependabot alerts, discussions and releases cannot arrive until it is.
• Failed checks start switched off, since they cannot arrive until GitHub is set to send them.

Views and the sidebar

• The switcher covers your own repositories and anyone else's, not only organisations. Your account is listed even when it is quiet.
• Views can filter on who opened the thing, so My pull requests means yours rather than four kinds wherever they happen.
• Kinds you have switched off are greyed out when building a view, so you cannot build one that is always empty.

Fixes

• A filtered notification keeps the facts it arrived with, rather than being restamped with how the pull request looks today.
• Snoozing, reopening and ignoring someone are recorded properly, and no longer vanish from a filtered notification.
• A notification filtered by your repository list now offers that list to change, rather than an unrelated switch.
• Command-W closes the window and leaves Inkling running.

The same notes appear in the app the first time you open this version.

Installing

Download Inkling-arm64.dmg and drag Inkling to your Applications folder.

The first launch will say the developer can't be verified — the app is signed,
but not yet notarized by Apple. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and
choose Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Inkling.app

Updating: quit Inkling first, then replace it in Applications.

When macOS asks about notification style, choose Alerts rather than Banners.
Banners disappear after a few seconds, which isn't long enough to reach the
Snooze, Mute and Done buttons.

Requirements

• A Mac with Apple Silicon, running macOS 12 or later
• A GitHub account — the gh CLI if you have it, or a
  personal access token you paste in during setup

Known limits

• Apple Silicon only. There is no Intel or universal build yet.
• Not notarized, which is why macOS warns on first launch.
• No automatic updates. Inkling checks for a newer release and links here;
  downloading and replacing it is your move.