Last Updated on March 14, 2026
projectable is a highly configurable TUI file manager built for projects. It handles all your project’s file-based needs from a comfortable and smooth interface.
Above just a hierarchical view of your filesystem, projectable comes with built-in integration with tmux and git. Not only that, but it’s also incredibly extensible: providing sane defaults yet allowing just about everything to be customized. Never leave the comfortable TUI interface, and instead interact with your project efficiently and safely using the dashboard-style interface.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Preview files.
- Run commands, foreground or background.
- Fuzzy search files.
- Create files or directories.
- Delete files or directories.
- Ignore files based on glob patterns.
- Toggle hidden files.
- Mark files to quick and easy access.
- Respect gitignore.
- Live update to new files/changes.
- View your project as a hierarchy.
- Automatically recognize project root, with customization.
- Run special commands that change on a per-file basis.
- View git changes.
- Easily write custom commands.
- Fully configurable with a dead-simple toml file.
Website: github.com/dzfrias/projectable
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Developer: Diego Frias
License: MIT License
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