GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work

This is the third post in our GitHub Copilot app for Beginners series. If you’re just joining us, check out, GitHub Copilot app for beginners: Getting started , where we introduced the app and how it helps you work across multiple agent sessions. Our second post goes deeper on working within a session. Here, we’ll look at how to keep all of the requests and work being done on a project organized in one place. If you’ve been following along in this series, you know that real development is rarely a straight line. You fix a bug here, review a pull request there, and chase down a new idea somewhere in between. As you continue to assign tasks to Copilot and create new pull requests, you’ll quickly find yourself with several proverbial balls in the air. Being able to manage everything from one centralized location is key, and that’s exactly why the My work pane exists. Below, we’ll cover how you can use it to manage what’s currently in flight, what’s completed, and what’s next. Exploring the default views for pull requests and issues When you open the My work tab, you’ll see three tabs waiting for you. The first is All, which shows all of your pull requests and issues in one place. This list is automatically filtered based on the projects you’ve touched inside the Copilot app. It’s not every repo you have access to. If there’s a repo you’d like to see here, just create a quick session pointing to that repo, and it’ll show up. Alongside All, you’ll find three more built-in views: Active shows all of your open pull requests and issues. Review requests shows the pull requests where someone has requested your review. Done shows everything that’s been closed. These give you an at-a-glance sense of what needs your attention right now versus what’s already wrapped up. Creating your own views and filters The built-in views are a great start, but you can also create your own. Select New view, and you’ll get the familiar “New view” placeholder name, which you can rename to somethi