Take control of your workflow with powerful search filters, saved queries, and smart notifications.
In today's fast-paced development environments, finding the right information quickly is essential. This course builds on basic GitHub Issues knowledge to help you master search filters, notification management, and workflow optimization.
- Who is this for: Developers, project managers, and team leads working with GitHub repositories.
- What you'll learn: Advanced issue searching, filter creation, notification management, and subscription strategies.
- What you'll build: A personalized system of saved searches and notification preferences.
- Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with GitHub Issues, we recommend taking the Intro to Issues GitHub Skills course.
- How long: 20-30 minutes.
In this course, you'll learn how to:
- Use GitHub's powerful search syntax to find specific Issues
- Create and save custom filters for frequent searches
- Subscribe to Issues and manage notification preferences
- Set up watched repositories and custom notification rules
- Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate Issues efficiently
- Right-click Start course and open the link in a new tab.
- In the new tab, follow the prompts to create a new repository.
- For owner, choose your personal account or an organization to host the repository.
- We recommend creating a public repository—private repositories will use Actions minutes.
- After your new repository is created, wait about 20 seconds, then refresh the page. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the new repository's README.
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