Show HN: Desk – lightweight workspace management for the shell

zaw&#x27;s[1] history widget on Ctrl-R is so much better than the regular backward history search that it&#x27;s difficult to imagine using a shell without it anymore.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zsh-users&#x2F;zaw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zsh-users&#x2F;zaw</a>

This looks useful!<p>I&#x27;ve also been working on tools to make user context switching easier on the terminal (such as a project of mine called prm[0]), and I&#x27;m currently working on bringing this sort of functionality to the desktop environment.<p>If you (or anyone else) wants to talk about these sorts of things, or know of any good relevant research, please drop me a line here or at eivind dot arvesen at gmail dot com.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eivind88&#x2F;prm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eivind88&#x2F;prm</a>

On the surface, Desk workspaces seem very similar to tmux sessions. I&#x27;m curious why one would choose Desk over tmux to manage multiple workspaces in the shell? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robots.thoughtbot.com&#x2F;a-tmux-crash-course" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robots.thoughtbot.com&#x2F;a-tmux-crash-course</a>

It would be cool if this functionality could be hooked into cd like rvm does.

I don&#x27;t understand this concept at all. How this can help me?

The main feature seems to be that you&#x27;re letting me use the same command in different environments, to do different things?

I like the concept.