--- title: How To Make Your Boring Terminal So Much Better | daily.dev description: Learn how to customize your boring default terminal to boost your productivity. Discover useful terminal commands for navigation and shortcuts to enhance your... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-make-your-boring-terminal-so-much-better-6ijuzupln twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How To Make Your Boring Terminal So Much Better | daily.dev og:description: Learn how to customize your boring default terminal to boost your productivity. Discover useful terminal commands for navigation and shortcuts to enhance your... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-make-your-boring-terminal-so-much-better-6ijuzupln og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6IjuzuplN.png og:image:alt: How To Make Your Boring Terminal So Much Better 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. # How To Make Your Boring Terminal So Much Better **[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · 1 min read · 884 upvotes · 53 comments ## Summary Learn how to customize your boring default terminal to boost your productivity. Discover useful terminal commands for navigation and shortcuts to enhance your terminal experience. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@tanvirshaikh** · 14 upvotes > Native Terminals are good but you can use Warp or Hyper which has more customization options. **@pierrecampoverde** · 4 upvotes > Prefer using Warp **@cedrickdev** · 4 upvotes > Very useful **@gauravmandall** · 4 upvotes > I'm using ZSH from a very long time and it's amazing! > specially the plugins. 💫 **@vcangel** · 3 upvotes > Great setup! > I highly recommend `tmux` aswell! > > It's great for having multiple programs running in one terminal :D ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#shell](https://daily.dev/tags/shell) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-make-your-boring-terminal-so-much-better-6ijuzupln) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How To Make Your Boring Terminal So Much Better","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-make-your-boring-terminal-so-much-better-6ijuzupln","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-make-your-boring-terminal-so-much-better-6ijuzupln"},"datePublished":"2024-06-06T14:39:12.825Z","dateModified":"2024-08-23T15:02:20.330Z","description":"Learn how to customize your boring default terminal to boost your productivity. 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