I built a Rust CLI because I kept forgetting to open my todo app

Gennaro Biondi — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:36:01 +0000

I always wanted to organize my tasks in a todo app, but because the habit was new, the next day i would always forget the existence of it. So i built something that opens itself (or, well, whenever your terminal does, by default)

Meet Amnosia. The CLI Tool that opens whenever your terminal does.
It's different from a regular todo app, because it gets in your face (in a good way!)

Install

To install, you can just clone the repo on github and then use cargo to put it in your PATH.

git clone https://github.com/GennaroBiondi/amnosia
cd amnosia
cargo install --path .

Usage

adding reminders, seeing them, and deleting them, is as easy as three commands:

Command	Info
`amnosia mind "ENTRY"`	Add an entry
`amnosia remind`	Lists all reminders
`amnosia demind`	Remove an entry by fuzzy searching through all the entries
`amnosia --help`	Display more detailed info about the program

The magic part

Add this to your .zshrc or .bashrc:

amnosia remind -n 7

Now every time you open a terminal, your reminders are right there.
No app to open. No habit to build.

You can view more here on github

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I built a Rust CLI because I kept forgetting to open my todo app

Install

Usage

The magic part