Learning/Idea/26/03/Terminal toolbelt learning

• Terminal-first toolbelt learning: snips, flashcards, coaches, Readwise-style reading

  • CursorAI/CLI/Thread e79ba087-945a-4a4b-a058-ee5b5be43812
  • Want external systems that help learn the coding toolbelt end-to-end: Neovim, tmux, ripgrep, lazygit, VS Code, PyCharm, and similar — not only reference, but retention.
  • Prefer staying in the terminal: take notes from the shell, use rg and other CLIs there, and reduce “AI does it for me” in favor of teaching.

  • Flashcards

    • One leg is spaced repetition / flashcards (already practiced in this graph with #card on keyshort and other pages).

  • Coaches (concept)

    • AI Terminal Coach — guides how to do things in the terminal rather than performing them for you; pairs with interactive review.
    • AI Engineering Coach — same spirit for broader engineering workflow; overlaps with teaching-oriented agent skills (see related link below).
    • Learning/Idea/26/03/Terminal toolbelt learning/Proto Session/26/03/21 Sat — proto session log (dated filename); cursor-agent + tmux split-pane coaching experiment.
    • Learning/Idea/26/03/Terminal toolbelt learning/Proto Session/26/03/25 Wed — zsh × tmux refresh constraints + garden rg ladder; coach withholds playbook.

  • Snip / highlight pipeline (missing standard)

    • While reading man rg (example), used tmux copy mode and yanked a tip — but yank-only does not attach source, section, or a path into the knowledge garden.
    • Wish: a standard flow from “selection in pager or tmux” → personal notes with attribution → optional flashcard and coach context (quizzes, “what flag was that?”).
    • Analog: Readwise Reader on the web — save a page, open it, bookmarklet shows your highlights on the page; in Reader you see the full document plus highlights.

  • Example snip (ripgrep)

    • Source: man rg (ripgrep manual), captured from terminal (tmux copy mode).

    • Tip: to disable all smart filtering and make ripgrep behave a bit more like classical
      grep, use rg -uuu.

  • Wishlist: Readwise/CLI/Idea/26/03/Readwise-like TUI and CLI Readwise-like CLI / TUI

  • AI/Coding/Idea/26/03/AI Coding Coach as Skill — teaching-first agent / skill idea.