• nushell is my shell. fish is nice but if you want to lose POSIX compatibility, you should go all the way and embrace a new workflow. It considers all data as table, allowing for powerful manipulation. It makes shell scripting fun by staying is a single language. Also, pandas support has been added :)
• zoxide is fantastic for moving around quickly in the shell. For example, z boo jumps to book, instead of typing cd home/user/misc/books. A must have.
• typst for writing papers and reports. More on that in a future post.
• ripgrep is a modern grep but cross-platform and faster.
• wezterm as a terminal, also available on Windows. Alternative are alacrity (with a terminal multiplexer like zellij or tmux) or kitty (not available on Windows) that have built-in tabs and windows
• jj has replaced git in my workflow (jj is compatible with git though). But there are nice TUI interfaces with git worth mentioning : lazygit ¹
• atuin to search shell history
• chezmoi to manage dotfiles

• hugo for this blog. Contrary to zola, it supports org-mode.
• mdBook is my go-to way of generating documentation. Theme is very readable and setup is reasonably fast.
• pier serves as a database for your one-liners. For example, I have a Haskell script to toggle between a dark and light theme that is run with pier run change-theme.

These may be of interest to other people but these are been superseded in my workflow.

• taskwarrior to manage tasks for non Org-mode users. More on that in a future post.

• Replacement of find, ls and bat in Rust are really cool but in practice, nushell is enough for my cases:

  • fd has an easier syntax than find (written in Rust). For example, convert all org files to markdown with

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fd -e md -x pandoc {} -o {.}.md

• sd also offers a simpler way to replace text with sd. Example: replace title: by title = :

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      sd 'title:' 'title = '=

• eza can replace ls
• bat is more colorful that cat

Several ideas came from awesome cli apps list on github. See also other tools written in Rust