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+title: "Cheatsheets to Stay Productive in the Command Line"
+date: November 3, 2019
+---
+<p>
+To stay productive in the command line, I maintain a personal
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/m-chrzan/cheatsheets">"cheatsheets" repository</a>.
+There are many commands, or particular options of certain commands, that I don't
+use often enough for them to become muscle memory, but often enough for
+<code>man</code>ning them or internet searching for "how do I resize an image with
+imagemagick" to become tedious.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I can recommend following a similar practice to anyone, though I don't recommend
+using my cheatsheets. They are usually quick notes that follow my own mental
+shortcuts, and in general are optimized to be quickly understood by <em>me</em>,
+based solely on my past experiences with these tools. I won't include options
+that are already obvious to me (if you haven't used <code>git add -p</code> or
+<code>git rebase -i</code>, you should go learn about them!), and might instead
+include tools that are already a second language to you (any <code>ffmpeg</code>
+ninjas out there?).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There are existing tools that aim to improve command line productivity in
+similar ways, like <a href="https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr">
+    <code>tldr</code>
+</a> or <a href="https://github.com/cheat/cheat"><code>cheat</code></a>. For my
+personal workflow, I figured that there's no reason to overcomplicate things
+when tools I already have (<code>vim</code> + <code>git</code>) do the job fine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Now, for any new UNIX system I intend on spending a lot of time on, I'll
+<code>git pull gitlab.com/m-chrzan/cheatsheets</code> in my home directory. When
+I want to remind myself of a command's use case, or have just figured out a new
+cool trick that I know I'm going to forget if I don't write it down, my notes
+are just a <code>vim ~/ch&lt;TAB&gt; tool.md</code> away. If I do write any new
+tips down, a quick <code>git push</code> allows me to keep the cheatsheets
+synced across all other systems.
+</p>