Atuin Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• What's Actually in My .zshrc (and Why)

  Atuin replaces your plain old shell history file with a searchable SQLite database, and it hooks into your shell so every command gets logged with context: what directory you were in, how long it ran, whether it exited cleanly. The part that actually changed how I work is the search. Instead of mashing the up arrow forty times or grepping through .zsh_history and hoping, I hit a keybinding and fuzzy-search across... - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• A Comma and a Question Mark, Redux: Quick Terminal Helpers Using Pi

  Nice ideas! I've been using the `?` shortcut in atuin [0] which accomplishes the same sort of thing, but these days also has access to an Agent-like experience which allows me to prompt something like "Conventional Commit message for unstaged changes" and it will call `git diff` (after asking permission, of course) and then generate the commit message. [0] https://atuin.sh. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Toward a more POSIX-Friendly PowerShell experience

  Atuin – The best shell history manager that ever was. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)

  And once you get tired of fzf and want something better, you reach for https://atuin.sh. Completely transformed all of my workflows. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)

  Http://atuin.sh adds a database to store history in and a custom app to use for lookup with added modes to help with searching. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Show HN: Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink

  I like using atuin[1] but the capture mechanism here's pretty convenient! Cool idea. May give it a try [1] https://atuin.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• You probably don't need Oh My Zsh

  This is the .zshrc file I have in my dotfiles. It auto installs everything if you don't have it. Starts effectively instantly. External dependencies (or remove their line at the bottom) - [Mise](https://mise.jdx.dev/) fast asdf, runner, and direnv replacement - [oxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide) smart and fast cd replacement -[atuin](https://atuin.sh/) ctrl + r and shell history finder - ... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• You probably don't need Oh My Zsh

  For command search I've replaced regular search and fzf with atuin. Works especially well with multiple hosts.. https://atuin.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• My Dev Tool List 2025

  Atuin also comes with a pretty cool desktop app which I love the idea of but have yet to do anything useful with. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Show HN: Envoy – Command Logger

  Then you should look at https://atuin.sh/ although I am not certain about exit code. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Speeding Up My ZSH Shell

  Once you have everything figured out, you just keep using the config you have. It might be worth the investment. I stopped using oh-my-zsh when I realized it was what was causing multi-second delays on Raspberry Pis. I think auto suggestions and syntax highlighting plugins can be installed separately from oh-my-zsh. I use starship for a better prompt, and it works on more shells than just Zsh. I also have Atuin... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

  As an alternative, perennial HN recommendation atuin (https://atuin.sh) logs time, duration and exit code (among other data) for every command. That way you only have to look at it when you need it, and you can also figure out what you were doing last week/month/year if necessary. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Curate Your Shell History

  Obligatory plug for Atuin, which is a Sqlite-based shell history tool. It logs shell commands alongside timestamps, the working directory, and the return value. You can optionally sync your history to a server in encrypted form to keep a shared history across hosts. The server is extremely easy to self host. As discussed in TFA, it’s easy to filter or scrub junk like `cd ~/Desktop` so it doesn’t pollute your... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Yash: Yet Another Shell

  I really like https://atuin.sh/ It’s a free local (or remote) better shell history utility. Does a good job of syncing histories across multiple windows in my experience. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Some Terminal Frustrations

  Shout out to atuin [1] which helps a lot with the "remembering syntax" problem especially if you're using several different commands over and over. [1] https://atuin.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Some Terminal Frustrations

  Ah this is a far more significant effort. I'm glad to see that there's so much consensus that default shell history is broken (I used to use logrotate because it would always truncate regardless of how many ways I told it to not ever, under no conditions, ever, do that). Nice to see there's so many options these days. Someone else mentioned "https://atuin.sh/" in this thread - which is also new to me. Keeping up... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Scooter: Interactive Find and Replace for the Terminal

  Https://atuin.sh/ is such a huge productivity booster in these scenarios. I remember that I used find + xargs command sometime in the last 6 months on of my computers and with Atuin I can quickly find it and then slightly modify it to fit my current need. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Things You Didn't Know About GNU Readline (2019)

  If you’re open to a paradigm shift, I can’t recommend atuin highly enough. It’s truly the pinnacle of shell history tooling, but requires a ~1-2 day muscle-memory learning curve. https://atuin.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• TotalRecall: Windows 11 Recall Pwned

  > Security aside, I'm genuinely unsure what problem Recall is even meant to solve. The same problem as https://atuin.sh/ but for everything rather than just shell command history. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell

  After being a fish die-hard for like a decade I finally gave up and learned to embrace Bash for its ubiquity. I realized all I cared about in fish was the built-in autocomplete, colorized output, and history management, which I was able to bolt on in short order to Bash. Now I use ble.sh [1] and Oh My Bash! [2] and Atuin [3] and I love it. This is really a field where I feel standardization is the better path.... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Shell History Is Your Best Productivity Tool

  I've recently started using Atuin (https://atuin.sh/), and can't get enough. Now it's one of the first things I install on any new machine/environment I work with, and it's been an absolute game-changer. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago