Optimize for effectiveness Slack + GitHub

If you’re like me and get overwhelmed by the amount of emails that are generated by GitHub for reviews then this might be a solution that saves you a lot of time and makes you more effective when it comes to reviewing code/PR’s.

What I ended up doing to solve the problem was setup a Slack + GitHub integration with custom reminders to get alerted for all the relevant comments, PR’s on the repositories that I contribute to. This ended up saving me a ton of time and made me more effective wrt to reviewing code faster and on time.

So here is what you need to do to get the same working:

1. Add a GitHub integration to your slack workspace if not present, this can be done by clicking on https://slack.github.com/ and then following the prompt. Once added you will be redirected to your GitHub to grant Slack access as well. Do that for all the Organizations that you want this integration setup for.

2. Now lets add the reminders for the Slack workspace(s). This can be done by going to

https://github.com/settings/reminder/<your_organization_name>

Once on the reminders page select the options that work for you, what work for me are setting real time alerts on a daily(weekday) cadence.

3. Once you click Update/Create Reminder, you can test it out by clicking the small horn icon. And you are good to go now.

Happy reviewing code!