Terminal Navigation Beyond cd: Favorites, Recents & Agentic Workflows

The terminal is the purest interface we have — and also the blindest. Without visual scaffolding, our spatial memory for file paths decays faster than we can maintain it. This episode explores the full landscape of terminal navigation tools: from frecency-based jumpers like zoxide, autojump, and fasd, to shell-native options like CDPATH and pushd, to visual terminal explorers like broot and yazi. But the real conversation is about what's missing: a favourites-and-recents manager that accounts for agentic workflows where tools like Claude Code are deeply tied to the working directory. If you've ever forgotten an alias you made three months ago, this one's for you. Episode #208050 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/208050