Atuin

“Much less configuration, and now get to quickly explicitly switch between history lists filtered as: global, host”

“Having durable history stored in an SQL database (with secrets filtering and option syncing)”

“Atuin (or some Zsh extensions, etc.) fix the bad UI of having to remember a different key”

“I found atuin way too hard/slow to use, I think I went two days before I nuked it”

“atuin kind of fixes this habit, when you click up you get a list of the latest commands, and you can just start typing to search. It's extremely natural.”

“it looks like they added some AI stuff that I don't want”

“After using atuin with nix, each new machine became a carbon copy and I could spin up and instance and continue working seemlessly.”

“atuin is such a time-saver, especially when it comes "oh dang, I ran this command on another host but I need it here now"”

“I hit ctrl-r and go to directory mode, and get the commands I ran the last time I was in that directory.”

“the idea of a background service sending my command history to servers I don't control never sat well with me”

“They promote their own AI on the website and that is really the last thing I want in my Shell”

“it also keep track of the status code of a previous command, as well as its execution time.”

“I use Atuin. It has a concept of "context" so you can easily search the history for commands related to your current directory / project / etc.”

“the killer feature of atuin is that it allows searching the history of commands executed from the current working directory”

“recently stopped using atuin due to all the extra bells and whistles”

“It's very good at syncing and managing shell history though.”

“but these days also has access to an Agent-like experience which allows me to prompt something like”

“If you set filter_mode = "directory", you can recall project specific commands from host_foo for use on host_bar”

“it seems indeed better in some ways, but the scoring is still way off”

“Product is free, open source and largely written and maintained by one person.”

“it does exactly what I hoped. However one (minor) annoyance I immediately realized was that with `hex` enabled I will get this warning whenever I close the terminal window”

“OSS is not immune to enshittification, and, in fact, is prone to it.”

“It's pretty damn stable software and everything they've been doing lately has just been extra features and gloss.”

“have been running the last v17 release ever since with zero problems”

“I didn't think syncing terminal history would be very useful until I tried it”

“I didn't think syncing terminal history would be very useful until I tried it, but now I have a hard time when I don't have it.”

“I self-host an Atuin server so that I can share that history across my various machines.”

“I've always felt this fullscreen was too much for actual use.”

“Atuin is one of my favorite everyday tools and this release sounds great!”

“completely destroys the ability to just press the up arrow key to quickly edit the command”

“now the overall product is way too big and feature-ful for me”

“But looking at the repo, they're already having commits done by claude.”

“the moment you add LLMs to the mix it is obvious that they are in for the free VC money”

“I don't get why everything has to have AI shoved into it”

“So far atuin was fine to be a better search history. Now it might be time to look for simpler alternative.”

“I use atuin for the shell history as it seems to know when I've run a command in one tab/split while another is open”

“The fuzzy search ui bound to up is more convenient than history | grep ...”

“even the completely offline features make it much nicer than a standard shell history”

“the shared shell command memory function solves a problem that I had”

“Pretty much anywhere we allow users to start typing a shell command we feed shell history into the editor”