Notes, colored projects and terminal names

Notes next to your machines

Notes live in folders of a project, the way terminals live on its machines: the deploy runbook, the release checklist, where the access keys are kept. A note opens as a tab next to your terminals, so the runbook stays in view while you follow it.

Markdown as you type

A # at the start of a line makes a heading, - [ ] a checklist item, three backticks a block of code, and / opens a menu with all of it. Code comes with a Copy button. A checklist shows who ticked an item and when, and the whole note copies as Markdown.

Written from two devices

A note is saved as you type. Edited on two devices at once, it keeps the changes from both, and tTerm asks only about a place that was changed on both sides. If the connection drops, what you typed waits in the browser and comes back when you open the note again.

Projects of your own

Besides Personal you can now make projects of your own: one per client, per environment or per job. Each has its own machines, terminals and notes. Rename any project, Personal too, and change its code, the one tabs are labeled with, as in CX/web-01. A project with no machines in it can be deleted, its notes with it.

A machine moves to another project with its terminals still running, and nothing changes on the machine itself. A note moves to another project too, into any of its folders.

Projects in color

Each project has one of eight colors. It fills the project's code in the sidebar and in tabs, so you can tell at a glance which project a tab is from. On the account page you choose whether the color goes on the code only or on the project's whole block in the sidebar.

Terminal names

A terminal no longer has to be terminal 2: call it deploy, logs or migrations. Double-click it in its tab, in the sidebar or on the project's page, type the name and press Enter. The name shows wherever the terminal does.

A new sidebar and a page for each project

In the sidebar each project has its machines with their terminals, and its notes in folders. A click on a machine or a folder only folds it, the plus beside it opens a terminal or starts a note, and the project's name opens its page: every machine with its open terminals, and every note.

What comes next

The next big part is working as a team: people in a project, roles, a shared log of commands and watching a colleague's terminal, where the person being watched always sees who is watching. Notes will then be shared by everyone in the project.

Alongside this, we are building tTerm for your computer: the same interface in a window of its own, for the shells on your computer.