redthread is a terminal-based sticky-note pegboard designed to live in a tmux pane or other terminal workspace.
It presents an ASCII corkboard where users can create, move, edit, and connect notes with red strings, making it useful for lightweight planning, idea mapping, task organisation, and keeping related thoughts visible while working at the command line.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Creates draggable sticky notes on an ASCII corkboard with mouse and keyboard control.
- Connects notes with red strings that can be tight, slack, placed in front, or placed behind notes.
- Supports multiple named boards, each with its own notes, strings, zoom level, font, and highlight colour.
- Provides five workspace zoom levels for switching between overview and close editing views.
- Persists notes and boards as JSON under the XDG data directory with debounced writes.
Website: github.com/B33pBeeps/redthread
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Developer: Juan Fourie
License: MIT License
redthread is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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