Octohub For Mac

Designed with a slight orientation towards the social aspect of GitHub, Octohub is a straightforward and efficient OS X app that makes it possible for you to better manage and organize your repositories and better follow your favorite developers.

The basic idea behind Octohub is the fact that it doesn’t concentrate upon the basic actions performed on GitHub such as managing, cloning or forking repositories, but actually aims to make it as easy as possible for you to group and oversee repositories and followed developers.

In order for Octohub to deliver all that’s described above, you must know that you will be working with tags to create lists of repos and followed developers. Not only this, but you can also use filters to search for activities, as well as sort every entry by programming language.

The fact that Octohub was designed to bring order with your followings on GitHub becomes quite evident once your first start the application. It should almost go without saying that you will need to use your GitHub credentials in order to log in.

The most important interface element is without doubt the black sidebar found on the left side of the app’s main window. The sidebar bundles three major elements that will definitely help you neatly organize your activities on GitHub, namely Repositories, Developers, and Tags.

You can choose to view the news about public, starred or hot repositories, view the followed developers or the ones that follow you, as well as all the tags from your lists. Speaking of its interface, it must be pointed out that Octohub is not what your would call rock-solid in terms of stability.

Currently being in an early beta stage of development, you should overlook some of the Octohub’s hick-ups, hangs or freezes, or even better, get involved and actively contribute towards it becoming more stable by sending its developer precious info using the “Send Feedback …” option.

While still at a young age and certainly far from being perfect, Octohub is a very useful OS X application that will definitely be most welcomed by many GitHub users that crave for an efficient way to organize their repos and to always stay up to date with the latest news from the developers they are following.