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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
v0.2.0
Released
August 6, 2026

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