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Glad you found something interesting :)

I’ve seen your tool box. I’ve shared some that may be good additions to your shop ;)

Waiting for you to join ;)

Alot has been built around notmuch so its integration is better. On a daily use, I’ve never noticed any issues or latency with notmuch in neomutt though. I was considering Alot as well when looking for a terminal email client but my understanding was that it doesn’t allow for IMAP folders creation within the app. You have to use mbsync and that would slightly friction with my work email workflow. Please let me know if this has changed or if I’ve misinterpreted things. Also, while the neomutt documentation can be quite intimidating, I felt the Alot one to be too limited.

For calendar invites I use mutt-ics to display them nicely and a keybinding associated to a simple khal to seamlessly add them to my calendar. For contacts I use abook.

After years in Neomutt I’m still open to other tools though. Why would you recommend that Alot over Neomutt?

Sorry, I will not talk about browsers in your list because I’ve tried them and my personal preference goes to chawan for these reasons:

• has CSS layout support
• has HTML5 support with various encodings
• can display Inline images in terminals that support Sixel or Kitty protocols (opt-in feature)
• offers basic JavaScript support via QuickJS (opt-in)
• supports HTTP(S), SFTP, FTP, Gopher, Gemini…
• has built-in viewers for Markdown, man pages, and directory listings
• has Incremental loading
• uses multi-processing, so several buffers can be loaded at once
• offer mouse support, bookmarks, and protocol handling extensible by users

If you want to check another option, there’s also brow.sh.

Hope this helps in your web terminal journey :)

There’s actually dedicated tools for this specific need like bmm and buku. Browser-agnostic bookmark managers are very nice for different purposes like multi browsers use. The idea is not to use browsers offline but to manage bookmarks outside of the browser as mentioned by OP.

Comparing to other tools they have the advantage to be dedicated to bookmark management, meaning they offer all features inherent to such task.

Yeah, there’s always a trend (like syncing everything and storing everything in a cloud), but fortunately there’s also always less known alternatives for the “weird” people :D

Bmm may be a viable option: https://github.com/dhth/bmm
I’m just not sure it can handle folders, but you could use tags as folder names to replicate this behavior ;)

I’ve been using Arch for over 15 years, and honestly, I never check the news before updating. Once in a while, I’ll get an error — maybe once a year — and the fix is always just running a quick command I find on the Arch site or the package page. Takes seconds, no drama.

I’ve only managed to break my system twice, and both times were 100% my fault. Even then, recovery was easy: just chroot in and run one command.

As for updates, doing them regularly (daily, weekly, or monthly) is recommended. No need to go crazy with updates. Too frequent updates are actually discouraged. Arch is a rolling release, so your packages and dependencies get updated together — meaning things don’t randomly break. Skipping updates won’t nuke your system either, and if something ever goes sideways, you can just downgrade and be back up in no time.

Welcome :) The myth that “Arch isn’t user-friendly” will probably never die — and neither will “Arch is unstable.” I’m honestly relieved you didn’t dare push the door to join us 😏
If you ever switch machines, you can check how Arch is supported on tons of laptops here.

Terminal is faster when you’re used to it and sometimes offer more customization options to some apps that has both a GUI and TUI/CLI version.

I use the terminal (st with zsh and tmux) for:

• file management (advcpmv, fd, trash-cli, fzf …)
• emails (neomutt)
• text editing/coding (neovim)
• project management (taskjuggler)
• image viewing/organization (ucolla,ge)
• online video browsing (ytfzf)
• calendar (khal)
• ssh
• vpn
• news aggregator (newsboat)
• web, bookmarks manager (buku)
• passwords manager (pass)
• dotfiles manager (stow)
• not in the terminal but I also have a lot of scripts used in rofi to control my audio input/outputs, launch a web search, access my bookmarks, autocomplete username and password fields

I’m sure I’m missing some obvious tools I use daily. It’s hard remember everything when it becomes so natural.

I have shared my experience with some of these tools here.