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24 alternatives to Playbooks for your Terminal, replacing your shell's history

🔁 Interactive Script playbooks for your terminal with Vim/Neovim (and Tmux) - laktak/tome

Playbooks for your Terminal is a developer tool that replaces traditional shell history with a structured playbook system. It helps developers organize, manage, and reuse command sequences and workflows within their… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Playbooks for your Terminal, replacing your shell's history launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…

    2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →

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    While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fig▲216

    Visual apps and shortcuts for your terminal

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Taskbook▲229

    Like Trello but for the Terminal

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Playbook▲397

    Beautiful documentation your customers will love

    2025 · playbookdocs.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone, Dipesh and Siddarth here. We are building PlayBooks (https://github.com/DrDroidLab/playbooks), an open source tool to write executable notebooks for on-call investigations / remediations instead of Google Docs or Wikis. There’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-wOtIm1gk, and our docs are here: https://docs.drdroid.io/docs/playbooks We were in YC’s W23 batch working on a data lakehouse with support for dynamic log schemas. Eventually we realized it was a product in search of a market and decided to…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    TLDR: I wrote a handbook for the Linux command line. 120 pages in PDF. Updated for 2025. Pay what you want. A few years back I wrote an ebook about the Linux command line. Instead of focusing on a specific shell, paraphrasing manual pages, or providing long repetitive explanations, the idea was to create a modern guide that would help readers to understand the command line in the practical sense, cover the most common things people use the command line for, and do so without wasting the readers' time. The book contains material on terminals, shells (compatible with both Bash and Zsh),…

    2025 · commandline.stribny.name · its alternatives →

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    Author here. RMUX started from a frustration: I've used tmux for years and got tired of scraping output with grep and sleeps to automate anything. So I rebuilt the multiplexer from scratch in Rust, with a programmable layer on top. Two surfaces: a tmux-compatible CLI (~90 commands, your keybindings just work), and a typed async Rust SDK on the same daemon — stable pane IDs, structured snapshots, locator-style waits. The idea is Playwright-style automation, but for terminals. Native on Linux, macOS, Windows (real ConPTY, no WSL). Demos and docs at rmux.io. Happy to answer questions about the…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore essential Neovim and Vim commands, remaps, plugin commands, and create a personalized cheatsheet to boost text editing efficiency.

    2025 · nvim-cheatsheet.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Spacemacs for Neovim—link to layers 👉. Contribute to Tehnix/spaceneovim development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tabby▲103

    A terminal for a more modern age

    2019 · tabby.sh · its alternatives →

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    Print your name in style. Contribute to arsham/figurine development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Better reverse-i-search: your terminal history in the cloud

    2021 · savecmd.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    I'm often in the terminal and forget a command (or never knew it in the first place). This is a simple tool that lets you type out what you want, gives you several options, and then automatically puts the one you want in your clipboard.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2019 · memorize-terminal-commands.com · its alternatives →

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    ✨ Magical shell history. Contribute to ellie/atuin development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    savecmd▲70

    Save your terminal history in the cloud

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    neovim plugin for turning neovim into terminal multiplexer - spywhere/tmux.nvim

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🐚📊 Show off your most used shell commands. Contribute to irevenko/tsukae development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling) - lmorg/murex

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create a layer of shortcuts with xkb for Xorg and Wayland

    2020 · cedaei.com · its alternatives →

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    Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ⚡Rapid note management for the terminal. Contribute to shashwatah/jot development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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