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Top 23 Shell Productivity Projects
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ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
To start this re-learning journey, I feel like I should start with setting up a VPC on my AWS account. I already have an account so I will not be writing about that. However, since I want to do all of this via IaC, I need to setup Terraform. Luckily for me, this is a new laptop so I have nothing setup on it, besides iTerm2. Btw, I am using https://ohmyz.sh/ for my shell, so shout out to that team. This is what it looks like right now.
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nb
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.
Repository: nb
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oh-my-bash
A delightful community-driven framework for managing your bash configuration, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
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zsh-you-should-use
📎 ZSH plugin that reminds you to use existing aliases for commands you just typed
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SaaSHub
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tmux-session-wizard
One prefix to control all your session creation, naming, switching, etc using fzf & zoxide
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Project mention: Show HN: Pomoglorbo, a TUI Pomodoro timer for your terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-19
Mine has an ASCII cow to keep you motivated and accountable: https://github.com/meribold/muccadoro.
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timebox
A timer script for Windows/Linux/Unix/macOS to practice timeboxing (the time management technique) (by susam)
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goat
POSIX-compliant shell movement boosting hack for real ninjas (aka `cd x` and `cd ...`) (by 0mp)
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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My Terminal Setup for 2025 🚀
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Productivity projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ohmyzsh | 178,428 |
| 2 | bash-it | 14,525 |
| 3 | nb | 7,061 |
| 4 | oh-my-bash | 6,537 |
| 5 | zsh-vi-mode | 3,709 |
| 6 | zsh-you-should-use | 1,676 |
| 7 | notes | 1,301 |
| 8 | synth-shell | 1,072 |
| 9 | goto | 890 |
| 10 | wd | 713 |
| 11 | zsh-iterm-touchbar | 688 |
| 12 | things.sh | 675 |
| 13 | prm | 442 |
| 14 | tmux-session-wizard | 219 |
| 15 | git-worktree-switcher | 163 |
| 16 | elixir-oh-my-zsh | 156 |
| 17 | mdt | 134 |
| 18 | muccadoro | 107 |
| 19 | tmux-fzf-session-switch | 71 |
| 20 | timebox | 46 |
| 21 | CoolRune | 44 |
| 22 | goat | 39 |
| 23 | Terminal-Setup | 32 |
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