TUI-Journal is a terminal-based journaling and note-taking application written in Rust for people who prefer to stay inside a shell.
It provides a text user interface for capturing and managing entries, and supports local storage with either plain JSON files or a SQLite database.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a full-screen text user interface for writing and managing journal and note entries.
- Includes a built-in editor and can also open entries in an external terminal text editor.
- Offers colored tags, filtering, smart search, and a fuzzy finder to help locate entries quickly.
- Supports sorting by date, priority, and title, along with multi-select for working with multiple journals at once.
- Includes undo and redo history, clipboard integration, and import/export between back-end files.
- Uses a mix of VIM-style navigation and Emacs-style editing, with a visual mode for text selection and editing.
- Runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and NetBSD.
Website: github.com/AmmarAbouZor/tui-journal
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Developer: Ammar Abou Zor
License: MIT License
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