{
  "id": 1986839,
  "title": "GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/github-copilot-app-for-beginners-managing-your-work",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-19T17:50:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "GitHub Blog",
    "slug": "github-blog",
    "url": "https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/github-copilot-app-for-beginners-managing-your-work/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This is the third installment in our GitHub Copilot app for Beginners series. In the previous posts, we introduced the app and its functionality for working across multiple agent sessions, as well as how to keep all project requests organized within a session. In this post, we'll focus on managing all of the work you're doing in one place. As development rarely follows a straight line, you're likely juggling multiple tasks, such as fixing bugs, reviewing pull requests, and brainstorming new ideas. The My work pane plays a crucial role in managing all these tasks from a centralized location.\n\nUpon opening the My work tab, you'll find three default views: All, Active, Review Requests, and Done. The All view displays all of your pull requests and issues based on the projects you've worked on. The Active view showcases your open pull requests and issues, the Review Requests view presents the pull requests where someone has requested your review, and the Done view shows everything that's been closed. These views provide a quick overview of what needs your attention versus what's already completed.\n\nShould you need custom views or filters, you can create your own by selecting New view. You can then build your filter using angle-bracket syntax or the user-friendly UI. For example, your custom \"My issues\" view could include a filter for Is: Issue and Assignee: Me to display only the issues assigned to you. Additionally, you can apply different sorting options, such as sorting recently updated items in ascending order to see older items first.\n\nSwitching to table view offers a few extra features, allowing you to customize columns, reorder, and resize them according to your preferences. Remember, you can always reset to the default list view or return to it whenever you wish.\n\nThe My work pane also enables you to start new sessions directly from issues and pull requests. Simply select the item, tell Copilot to work on it, and it will create a new session using the item as context. Furthermore, you can select multiple items at once to create new sessions, making it convenient to work on independent feature requests or group bug reports related to the same feature.\n\nLastly, the pane provides buttons for managing your repository scope. By default, it's set to All Repositories, but you can change it to filter by specific repositories. Additionally, you can create a new issue directly from the pane, starting a new session with that issue as its context. The My work pane offers a comprehensive way to manage all your pull requests and issues, enabling you to stay organized and focus on what's most important.",
  "summary": "If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what's in flight, what's done, and what's next. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work appeared first on The GitHub Blog .",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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