diff --git a/dot_zsh_functions b/dot_zsh_functions
index 3e46fed..00fa271 100644
--- a/dot_zsh_functions
+++ b/dot_zsh_functions
@@ -64,3 +64,16 @@ function top_commands() {
 function top_commands_full() {
     history | cat | sed 's/^[0-9 TAB]*//g' | awk '{CMD[$0]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "%\t" a; }' | sort -nr | nl | head -n50
 }
+function istherenewissues() {
+    LASTISSUE=$(newissues | sed $'s,\x1b\\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z],,g' | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}')
+    if [[ -f ".newjiraissue" ]]
+    then
+      previous_jira_issue=$(cat ".newjiraissue")
+      if [ "$LASTISSUE" != "$previous_jira_issue" ]; then
+        newissues
+      else
+        echo "no new issue"
+      fi
+    fi
+    echo "$LASTISSUE" > .newjiraissue
+}
diff --git a/dot_zshrc b/dot_zshrc
index 3fd18e5..d864de8 100644
--- a/dot_zshrc
+++ b/dot_zshrc
@@ -94,12 +94,15 @@ source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
 . ~/.zsh_functions
 . ~/.scripts/executable_bootstrap.sh
 
+
 eval "$(fasd --init auto)"
 unlink "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json"
 ln -s "$HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json" "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json"
 #cm apply
 
 sh ~/.scripts/resume.sh
+# check if we have new jira issues
+istherenewissues
 
 #THIS MUST BE AT THE END OF THE FILE FOR SDKMAN TO WORK!!! https://github.com/sdkman/sdkman-cli/issues/613
 export SDKMAN_DIR="$HOME/.sdkman"