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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
v0.2.1
Released
August 13, 2026
GitHub stars
0

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 are ordinary Markdown files rather than data trapped inside a plugin. The project is delivered as one WASM plugin that Zellij can load directly from a release URL.

Load the released WASM pluginterminal
zellij-tab-notes.wasm  # add the release URL to config.kdl