Sessions down the side, not across the top
Horizontal tabs run out of room at about six. A vertical rail holds far more, stays readable, and leaves space for each session to say something about itself.
what I'm building / Builder Console
Builder Console
Dev Tool built, not releasedOne app for every terminal you have open, organized instead of scattered. Sessions run down the left rather than across the top, and each one shows what it has actually been doing.
Get told when it lands
Its own site is coming
Video
The session rail with several panes busy and the activity graphs moving
Why it's interesting
The parts worth showing someone
Every session shows live activity
A rolling graph per pane, so a glance tells you which sessions are busy and which have gone quiet. A static list of names cannot do that.
Grouping, and history you can reopen
Sessions group by project, and closing one does not throw it away. Come back and pick it up rather than reconstructing it from memory.
How I built it
The decisions behind it
Terminal multiplexers are a crowded category with several good free options, so this only earns its place by being better at one specific thing: showing you the state of a lot of work at once.
The activity graphs are the whole idea. Everything else follows from the decision that a session list should tell you what is happening, not just what exists.
See it
What it looks like
Screenshot
Grouped sessions, with a closed group ready to reopen
Next step
Want to know when this one lands?
One email a week: what shipped, what's next, and what's happening.
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