--- title: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and... description: I use Alacritty as my terminal, zsh and oh-my-zsh as my shell and plugin manager respectively, tmux as my multiplexer, lsd as my list command with fun icons,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-terminal-based-workflow-for-research-writing-and-programming-hc3gue6vz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming | daily.dev og:description: I use Alacritty as my terminal, zsh and oh-my-zsh as my shell and plugin manager respectively, tmux as my multiplexer, lsd as my list command with fun icons,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-terminal-based-workflow-for-research-writing-and-programming-hc3gue6vz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hc3GUE6vZ.png og:image:alt: A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming **[Changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/changelog)** · 5 min read · 32 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary I use Alacritty as my terminal, zsh and oh-my-zsh as my shell and plugin manager respectively, tmux as my multiplexer, lsd as my list command with fun icons, Fantasque Sans Mono as my typeface font, neovim for my editor, fzf paired with ripgrep for speedy and interactive file finding, pandoc for writing in markdown and LaTeX and outputting the piece to whatever file type I want, Zotero for managing my collection on scientific literature, ranger as a terminal-based file explorer, and gruvbox-dark as my general color palette. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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