Your own queue
Queuebird is a team tool, but every person in the workspace also gets their own view of it. None of this needs the bot invited anywhere. You DM it links, and you read your App Home.
Your App Home
Open Queuebird from the sidebar and you get six sections, in this order:
| Section | What’s in it |
|---|---|
| NEEDS YOU | PRs waiting on your review, oldest first |
| YOU’RE REVIEWING | What you’ve said you’re on |
| YOUR PRS | PRs you opened |
| REVIEWED BY YOU | Ones you’ve already looked at |
| TRACKING | PRs you’re watching privately |
| PARKED | PRs set aside, with a Restore button |
Any of these lists can outgrow the tab. When one does it shows as many as fit and ends with a line
reading Showing N of M, oldest first. and an Open all button, which opens the whole list,
paginated, in the same order. For NEEDS YOU the order is the point: urgent first, then oldest,
so the top is always the next thing to pick up.
Every section keeps its heading and its count whatever else is going on, even when there is no room for a single card in it. A long NEEDS YOU can cost the sections below it their cards; it can never cost them their place on the tab.
Link your GitHub account and the shared TEAM QUEUE appears below them. Every queue channel you are in gets a line — how many are open, how many have breached, and the age of the oldest — with an Open button that shows that channel’s whole queue.
Whatever room is left on the tab is spent showing the actual PR cards under those lines, so a small team sees all of theirs without opening anything. When there is more than fits, the channels with breached PRs are expanded first, and a line that is showing only part of its queue says so. The lines themselves are reserved before any card is drawn, so no channel ever falls off the tab no matter how busy the team gets.
Watching a PR privately
DM a PR link to Queuebird and it lands in TRACKING. Nobody else sees it.
This works with no setup at all, so it’s the easiest way to try Queuebird before turning a channel into a queue. Stop tracking any time, and DM the link again to bring it back.
Tracking also starts on its own when you paste someone else’s PR into a review channel, on the reasoning that you clearly care how it turns out.
What the cards tell you
Every card carries what GitHub knows: age, size, CI state, approvals, changes requested, and how many review threads are resolved.
Two markers are worth knowing:
- 🔄 means a PR came back to you. Either it changed after you reviewed it, or someone re-requested you.
- 🔔 DM’d you means Queuebird recently messaged you about that card, so you can find it after tapping through from a DM.
How Queuebird reaches you
It is quiet by default and every message can be turned off.
- The daily digest arrives on weekday mornings in your timezone. If there is nothing to say, it says nothing. It ends with a button straight to your queue.
- New-PR DMs are off unless you turn them on. One checkbox in ⚙️ Settings and every new PR in a queue you review for gets DM’d to you as it arrives, with 👀 Open & Review on it. Each of those DMs carries its own 🔕 Turn these off button.
- Merge and close DMs let you stop thinking about a PR once it’s done.
You control the rest in ⚙️ Settings: your timezone, working hours, review windows, quiet hours, and per-PR snoozes. Every setting is explained here.
What stays private
Your snoozes, your tracking list and your settings are yours. Teammates never see them.
What is shared is the team’s own state: the 👀 claims, the queue itself, and SLA escalation. That’s covered in the Team guide.