Overview
Octobox is a self-hosted GitHub notification management application that gives you a triage-friendly inbox view of all your GitHub notifications. It lets you archive, mute, label, and filter notifications across repositories and organisations, and marks items as read after you act on them. It is built with Ruby on Rails and can be deployed via Docker or manually.
Where it falls short of Jira
- Scoped exclusively to GitHub notifications; no GitLab or Bitbucket support
- Not a full project management tool — no task creation, boards, or planning views
- Requires a GitHub OAuth app setup; adding team members requires individual GitHub auth
- Development activity has slowed; some GitHub API changes may not be promptly reflected
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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