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Zellij Tab Notes

One tab. One note. Zero lost context.

A persistent Markdown scratchpad for every Zellij tab, edited with your own editor.

Status
Active
Primary stack
Rust
License
MIT
Latest release
v0.2.2
Released
October 2, 2026
GitHub stars
1

Why it exists

Made for the work, not the demo.

Zellij Tab Notes places a small, durable note beside each tab so the reasoning behind a shell session does not disappear. A keyboard shortcut opens the note in $EDITOR, while a watcher keeps the tab bar marker synchronized.

Notes follow session renames, and conflicting tab names receive distinct suffixes so each tab keeps its own note. The files remain ordinary Markdown, portable and searchable outside Zellij. The project is delivered as one WASM plugin that Zellij can load directly from a pinned release URL.

Plugin location for config.kdlterminal
https://github.com/illegalstudio/zellij-tab-notes/releases/download/v0.2.2/tab-notes.wasm