ezeoleaf / tblogs

A simple and useful blogs' reader for your terminal

TBlogs

Summary

TBlogs is a basic app for your terminal that allows you to read, follow and save posts from development blogs from lots of companies.

What It Looks Like

Other screens

Help section

Blogs section

Saved Posts

Install

You can install by the following set of instructions:

1. Clone or download the repo, and navigate to the repo directory
2. Just run go run . inside the repo directory
3. You can also try compiling it with:
   • make - Work in progress
4. Assuming the binary has built correctly, you can simply run the file inside the bin directory:

Usage

Start the app by running go run . or go build . and then run ./tblogs to open it.

At first you will land on the help page just for this time.

Then you can simply use it with the shortcuts or with the mouse.

Shortcuts

• Ctrl + H opens the Help page
• Ctrl + B opens the Blogs page
• Ctrl + T opens the Home page (T for tblogs)
• Ctrl + P opens the Saved Posts page
• Ctrl + S
  • Follow/unfollow a blog. Once the blog is followed, you will see the posts in your Home page
  • Save/unsave a post. After this, you can see it in the Saved Posts page even if you're not following the blog
• Ctrl + F search a blog or post depending on the screen that is selected
• Enter
  • If you have a blog selected from the Blogs page, then you will be able to read the posts
  • If you have a post selected, a browser will display the post
• Esc returns from the Posts results to the Blog pages

Contributing

If you find any bugs, please report them! I am also happy to accept pull requests from anyone.

You can use the GitHub issue tracker to report bugs, ask questions, or suggest new features.

For a more informal talk, just ping me [e-mail] :)