A Few Terminal Anti-Context Switching Apps Based on Ncurses & Python

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As I've mentioned on the show, I HATE context switching when I'm heads-down inside a terminal authoring something in Markdown. As such, I've put together a few Curses-based applications that run nicely within a terminal pane.

Full disclosure, My Python, while functional, isn't always the greatest. So, I did use AI to clean up a few sections I found to be a little brittle. That said, it all works nicely, and I've licensed both of these tools under GPLv3, so feel free to use / change / share as needed.

pomocli

This is a curses-based terminal app that acts as a simple pomodoro timer in your terminal. It will prompt for your planned work, and log it to a text file with start / end times and has a built in menu item to view previous work sprints.

music_tui

This is a MacOS-specific app that acts as a wrapper around the built-in MacOS Scripting Engine (osascript) and allows you to control Apple Music from a simply CLI menu application. Supports basic track controls, playlist selection, shuffle toggles....etc.

Hope the other terminal nerds out there enjoy these!