Managing notifications from busy GitHub repositories can be overwhelming, especially when monitoring active projects like CockroachDB, which averages 81 pull requests and 440 comments weekly. The GitHub watching feature is criticized for its lack of granularity, prompting the development of tools like repo-digest, a GitHub pull request digester designed to condense PR activity into a daily, manageable format. By utilizing the GitHub API, repo-digest retrieves and organizes PRs from specified repositories, sorting them by total changes to emphasize significant updates. Users can customize the time frame and repositories to be monitored, and the output can be styled using templates for email distribution. The tool also highlights key subdirectories affected by changes, providing a deeper understanding of the focus and impact of each pull request.