@shana are you envisioning something like Pulse + notifications built into this pane?

What sort of querying can we do about notifications? Having repo specific notifications could be interesting, but I don't know / don't think we can get them at repo scope.

I think this is a great idea; but just wanted a sense of how you picture it being used beyond a pointer to other functionality in the extension.

@pmn I'm thinking of it as being an area that does two things:

• Jump point to other functionality
• Aggregates information that would be important to see when you're just starting your work day or engage on a project (because otherwise you'll be in other views).

Information aggregation:

So what's important in the (proverbial) morning? New PRs should probably be there, they touch code - or maybe just a count of new PRs created with a link to the PR list?

New comments that merit attention should probably also be there - comments on my PRs followed by comments on my issues, followed by comments on issues/PRs that I didn't create. Instead of just showing the comments, probably just showing the issue or PR with info on how many new comments are there in them. Maybe a little expandable box per issue/PR that just shows a snippet of each new comment, with links to them.

I'd love to see information on new branches created in the last 24 hours or since the last time I looked (or something). Probably tags too. A link to the latest release or area with info about it?

Other ideas:

A maintenance area or jump point to maintenance area with:

• button to fast forward all the untouched branches of my local fork clone so it matches upstream
• button to clean up all local branches that are tracking remote branches that have already been merged to the default branch, so I don't keep stale stuff around.