Atuin – Magical Shell History

I have been storing shell history in SQLite since 2017 [1]. I have always been a heavy shell user, with the worst memory. So having all the history stored and backed up was very useful for me. At the time when I became a full-time macOS user, I built a ShellHistory app for macOS [2], with full-text search, notebooks, and sync over iCloud (with advanced data protection [3]).

I tried to contact Atuin authors to see if I could also integrate ShellHistory with their servers, but at that time it seemed like they did not support third-party clients, and the API was not documented.

I highly recommend using tools like Atuin and ShellHistory, at this point I have 136,000 records since 2017. My shell history is the best documentation for me. If I need to do a `kubectl --raw` API call, and don't remember exactly how to write it, I just search for `kubectl raw` and get some results from the history, don't remember some advanced `git rebase`, just search the history for it.

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- [1] https://www.outcoldman.com/en/archive/2017/07/19/dbhist/

- [2] https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/

- [3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756

Edit: fixed formatting