bear vs inshellisense

bear

Unofficial CLI for the Bear notes app (MacOS only) (by sloansparger)

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inshellisense

IDE style command line auto complete (by microsoft)

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bear		inshellisense
	Project
3	Mentions	7
101	Stars	8,035
-	Growth	1.5%
0.0	Activity	9.3
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	13 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

bear

Posts with mentions or reviews of bear. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-18.

Templates/Shortcuts on Mac?
2 projects | /r/bearapp | 18 Apr 2021
Assign Dates to Notes.
1 project | /r/bearapp | 3 Feb 2021

All you need is Bear CLI (https://github.com/sloansparger/bear) and you have to write a script and set it to launch everyday with macos' launch daemons.
Shortcut for adding data without opening the app
1 project | /r/bearapp | 24 Jan 2021

You could do something similar on macos with Bear CLI (https://github.com/sloansparger/bear)

inshellisense

Posts with mentions or reviews of inshellisense. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
Fig Is Sunsetting
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024

withfig/autocomplete is also used by other projects, who might be in a position to fork if something happens. The ones I know of are:
- https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense
FLaNK Stack Weekly for 13 November 2023
30 projects | dev.to | 13 Nov 2023
inshellisense: IDE style command line auto complete
1 project | /r/linux | 10 Nov 2023
Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 9 Nov 2023

9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bear and inshellisense you can also consider the following projects:

autocomplete - IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

tiger - Open Source LLM toolkit to build trustworthy LLM applications. TigerArmor (AI safety), TigerRAG (embedding, RAG), TigerTune (fine-tuning)

shell-bling-ubuntu - A few scripts to be run on a fresh-off-the-presses Ubuntu VM, in order to get its shell nice 'n purdy.

vimGPT - Browse the web with GPT-4V and Vimium

PyMISP - Python library using the MISP Rest API

cuml - cuML - RAPIDS Machine Learning Library

linen.dev - Lightweight Google-searchable Slack alternative for Communities

butterfish - A shell with AI superpowers

LocalAIVoiceChat - Local AI talk with a custom voice based on Zephyr 7B model. Uses RealtimeSTT with faster_whisper for transcription and RealtimeTTS with Coqui XTTS for synthesis.

hishtory - Your shell history: synced, queryable, and in context

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