# tobi/try

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3,681 stars · 145 forks · Shell · MIT

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/tobi/try
- awesome-repositories: https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/tobi-try.md

## Description

This project is an ephemeral workspace orchestrator and Git manager designed to create isolated, date-prefixed directories for short-lived development tasks. It functions as a repository cloner and worktree manager, allowing users to spin up fresh environments to test ideas without affecting a primary project branch.

The system focuses on preventing local workspace clutter through dated directory isolation and the orchestration of detached head worktrees. It includes a fuzzy project navigator that uses an interactive terminal interface and recency-based scoring to locate and open these experimental folders.

The tool provides capabilities for rapid prototyping and temporary workspace organization, covering the setup of isolated Git experiments and the management of multiple simultaneous development tasks.

## Tags

### Development Tools & Productivity

- [Ephemeral Workspaces](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/development-environment-management/development-environments/workspace-management/ephemeral-workspaces.md) — Provides a system for creating and managing temporary, isolated directory environments for short-lived development tasks.
- [Git Worktree Management](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/git-worktree-management.md) — Manages multiple separate directories for the same repository using native git worktree commands.
- [Dated Workspace Generators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/dated-workspace-generators.md) — Generates project directories prefixed with the current date to keep experimental work organized. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tobi/try@main/README.md))
- [Worktree Isolation Tools](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/git-tooling/worktree-isolation-tools.md) — Orchestrates detached git heads into isolated directories to enable simultaneous development across branches.
- [Project Navigation Tools](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/project-navigation-tools.md) — Implements an interactive terminal interface with recency scoring to quickly locate and open dated project directories.
- [Rapid Prototyping Environments](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/rapid-prototyping-environments.md) — Rapidly spins up isolated directory environments to test new configurations and code changes.
- [Isolated Repository Cloning](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/repository-cloning-tools/isolated-repository-cloning.md) — Clones repositories into temporary isolated workspaces to keep experimental changes decoupled from the main branch.
- [Git Workspace Isolations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/workspace-isolation/git-workspace-isolations.md) — Creates temporary clones of repositories in dated directories to isolate experiments from the main branch.
- [Workspace Organization](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/workspace-management/project-workspaces/workspace-organization.md) — Organizes short-term experimental work into dated project folders for easy filesystem retrieval.
- [Directory Navigators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/directory-navigators.md) — Facilitates rapid navigation and opening of project folders via fuzzy search and recency scoring. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tobi/try@main/README.md))
- [Workspace Path Filtering](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/fuzzy-search-interfaces/repository-fuzzy-searches/workspace-path-filtering.md) — Provides fuzzy-search indexing to match partial user input against a list of project folders.
- [Git Repository Utilities](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/git-repository-utilities.md) — Ships a utility to clone repositories into date-prefixed workspaces to maintain organization during experimental iterations.
- [Interactive Selection Interfaces](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/terminal-text-interaction/interactive-selection-interfaces.md) — Provides a searchable terminal interface for users to interactively filter and select project directories.

### Software Engineering & Architecture

- [Application Directory Isolation](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/environment-isolation/application-directory-isolation.md) — Separates experimental iterations from the primary workspace using timestamp-based directory isolation.
- [Timestamped Directories](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/environment-isolation/application-directory-isolation/timestamped-directories.md) — Implements date-prefixed directory isolation to separate experimental project iterations from the main codebase.
- [Terminal UI Event Loops](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/application-lifecycle-management/gui-event-loops/terminal-ui-event-loops.md) — Implements a keyboard-driven TUI event loop for real-time filtering and selection of workspaces.

### Data & Databases

- [Fuzzy Search Engines](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/data-databases/search-indexing-technologies/search-indexing/search-information-retrieval/matching-ranking-logic/fuzzy-search-engines.md) — Uses fuzzy matching algorithms to locate project workspaces based on directory names.