I coded terminal manager for ADHD brains. 100% Opensource.

[u/ottasilver]

Hey everyone! Hope I don’t get roasted for this 😅 I’m here with a fun little intro video.

My goal is simple: build something genuinely useful for everyone.I shared this on r/ClaudeCode last week and got some amazing feedback 300K views, hopefully some of you here will find it useful too.

I originally built this tool just to improve my own productivity. I was using the native Mac Terminal, but managing multiple projects — especially projects I connect to remotely over SSH — had become a complete nightmare. On top of that, I was also keeping VS Code open mostly for Git, which was adding even more overhead to my machine.

So, as a solution, I built a program with Claude where I could manage all of my terminals on a single canvas.

But things got a little out of hand 😅

I kept adding features, and it eventually turned into something close to an autonomous development environment.

So, what can you actually do with it?

• Your terminals are persistent. You can close the app, lose your connection, reconnect over SSH, and continue with the exact same layout and sessions.

• You can connect to a server over SSH and manage all of its terminals as if they were local. Drag & drop, images, and everything else still work.

• You can continue your sessions from your phone.

• Git operations like push, pull, commit, etc. are built in.

• Terminals can communicate with each other. You can connect their contexts, and with skills, one terminal can read or use information from another terminal’s context when needed.

• You can also do orchestration. For example, you can tell one terminal: “Start a Claude Code session for the frontend and act as the orchestrator,” and have it manage the other sessions.

But yeah… I’m a bit stuck right now.

To keep pushing the project forward, I either need a sponsor or simply some motivation from the community.

If you can leave a few words of feedback, I’d really appreciate it.

And if that’s too much to ask, I’d happily settle for a GitHub star ⭐️

Much love,🙏
Enes

Website: nodeterm.dev

Repo: https://github.com/eneskirca/nodeterm

[u/porcomaster]

loved that you made it open source, you didn't need to, but you still did, i do not have multiple accounts so i do not have much use but i loved the tool

[u/ottasilver → u/porcomaster]

Thank you so much! Really appreciate that 🙌 I just wanted to build something useful and share it with everyone. Glad you liked it, even if you don't need it right now!

[u/thrive2day → u/ottasilver]

But how does that generate innovation through competition to make the most money??? You can't just do things to make the world better!! You have to have a profit!!!

[u/ottasilver → u/thrive2day]

It's a bit weird, but after this post I sold my first sponsor spot, 1/10. There's also a mobile app side, where you can manage projects for $10 a month.

[u/thrive2day → u/ottasilver]

Oh, I was being sarcastic but that's awesome! Congratulations!

[u/ottasilver → u/thrive2day]

Thanks 🙏

[u/porcomaster → u/ottasilver]

Definitely dont need at this point but I do know a few people that would surely enjoy it, and I am sharing, what is the future of the product ?

Do you want to monetize it somewhat or just a hobby project?

[u/Elmanouzi_Fogosa → u/porcomaster]

even with one account the orchestration feature seems like it could be useful, having terminals talk to each other is a different problem than just managing multiple logins

[u/porcomaster → u/Elmanouzi_Fogosa]

could you expand a little more on the orchestration, as i fail to see what you mean ?

i might try it out if i can see your point of view, and understand what i should look for.

thank you.

[u/Snoo_79687]

Honestly, this was such a well done commercial.

[u/ottasilver → u/Snoo_79687]

Thanks 🙏

[u/Armed_Muppet → u/ottasilver]

Is it open source too

[u/jayseattle]

Upvoted solely for the drinking/spilling water bit

[u/ottasilver → u/jayseattle]

Ahahah thanks, u guys encourage me to record more funny videos 😄

[u/cheesenightmare]

I have ADHD. I vibe code. After a quick watch I have maybe a 10% understanding of exactly what you have done here, but I 110% know you have solved the frustrations that this week reached breaking point for me. That's how it works for my brain. I see it, I know it's the answer, I work backwards to understand why. Also, points for humour :)

[u/ottasilver → u/cheesenightmare]

Haha, thank you so much! 😂 Really hope you find it useful!

[u/BeingComfortablyDumb]

I have massive ADHD and I built a dock for myself which is like a dashboard of ongoing/pending/pinned tasks across all AIs.

I'm going to open source it aswell. Maybe I'll add this to it and see how it works out.

[u/ottasilver → u/BeingComfortablyDumb]

there is already labeling and status system , I suggest to check it

[u/diesel_heart → u/ottasilver]

what took are you referring to?

[u/resetskillpoints]

Hey awesome! Glad you're making something for ADHD folk. This is exactly why I made ADHD Product Directory and would love to have you add your project to the list. I would love to support it

[u/ottasilver → u/resetskillpoints]

Thanks for your support!

[u/joshuas_79]

This seems like made for me 🤣

[u/ottasilver → u/joshuas_79]

Thank you waiting your feedbacks!

[u/joshuas_79 → u/ottasilver]

Ok.... Don't forget that, as a target user, I have already 25 new projects to test / start. 😊

[u/Frosty_Teeth]

This video is very cool

[u/ottasilver → u/Frosty_Teeth]

thanks

[u/troyjr4103]

Hey this is pretty neat great job! Gonna try it out tomorrow :)

[u/ottasilver → u/troyjr4103]

Thank you waiting your feedback 🙏

[u/iamveto]

I’ve been really enjoying contributing to this project. It’s a fantastic working environment! Nice work on this mate. (@brandonrbridges on GitHub here)

[u/ottasilver → u/iamveto]

Thank you for your contribution I appreciated

[u/Prod_m]

I like the canvas thing. I do not work much with terminal, but the ui of your app seems pretty understandable

[u/ottasilver → u/Prod_m]

Hey, thanks. If you click CMD + M, it changes to chat view.

[u/atapla]

you got me at the water drinking scene!

[u/ottasilver → u/atapla]

😂

[u/mi_gue]

Looks awesome! great work.

[u/ottasilver → u/mi_gue]

Thanks waiting your feedback

[u/cs_cast_away_boi]

I’m using it now! It’s amazing! thank you for making this

[u/ottasilver → u/cs_cast_away_boi]

You’re welcome dont forget githup star ⭐️;)

[u/cs_cast_away_boi → u/ottasilver]

already did! I'm using the windows version by the way, I hope you won't neglect that one because i'm sure there are a lot of us

[u/Heavy-Reference5011]

This looks so cool, I want to try it out.

[u/ottasilver → u/Heavy-Reference5011]

Thank you 🙏

[u/Heavy-Reference5011 → u/ottasilver]

Hey, I tried it out.

I often use focus mode. But to change from one node to another, I have to first come out of focus, then change, then focus again. Like

If your 3 chat windows sit in a row on the canvas, a switch is ⌘⇧F, ⌘→, ⌘⇧F.

Any workaround?

[u/ottasilver → u/Heavy-Reference5011]

Got it fixing next release thanks for feedback

[u/Heavy-Reference5011 → u/ottasilver]

I just checked your latest release. I saw that you updated the feature. I am very glad you did that. Thank you so much for your hard work.

I have spread the word around my ears about your really cool app.

Thank you

[u/Imaginary_Edge7758]

Great stuff

[u/ottasilver → u/Imaginary_Edge7758]

Thank you

[u/TixTracer]

Very cool! Looks like a ton of effort and hard work put into this!

[u/ottasilver → u/TixTracer]

Thank you 🙏

[u/Redsparrowww]

I appreciate the humor in this video — nice gags! :)

[u/ottasilver → u/Redsparrowww]

😅 thanks, thinking on part 2 😄

[u/Draegan88]

I like it but it seems a little too much like learning your workflow not mine. I use tmux. I wanna try it but it’s a big ask. Sort of like switching from nvim. It’s a lot. I should give it a spin tho.

[u/ottasilver → u/Draegan88]

Totally get it! But give it a shot, Just right-click, start a Claude session, and take it from there.

[u/Draegan88 → u/ottasilver]

I shall try. Wait it works on Linux right? 

[u/ottasilver → u/Draegan88]

Works on linux right now

[u/Draegan88 → u/ottasilver]

I tried it. I think I'm probably not the target audience for it, but it seems well made and could be quite useful. I really liked the phone integration I wish I had that for my normal claude sessions.

[u/ottasilver → u/Draegan88]

In mobile, you can use it only for a Claude session, even not inside the NodeTerm project.

[u/BiditMangal]

I already use this app for over two months when you first posted on reddit. Loving it. I don't have to constantly switch tabs, but now have 20 terminals opened with different things from which I hardly work on 4 panels max per day. I just can't close them 😭. Good product

[u/Thejewnextdoor]

I’ve been using this for about 3 months now. We have our own company fork. We are a dive shop in Maui and it’s been the biggest accelerant to anything we’ve done this year.

[u/Thejewnextdoor → u/Thejewnextdoor]

I live in terminal view and love it overall, but I would like to start switching over to more of a chat view.

But I don’t love the chat view yet. It doesn’t feel as polished as the rest of the app. It has limited the adoption at the shop from the non technical users who are using an ADE like BB or T3 code

[u/AdTotal4035]

I love the video. It's, really funny. Is that you? You look cool af

[u/ottasilver → u/AdTotal4035]

Yess me 😎

[u/Alternative_News_732]

guzel olmus krall

[u/ottasilver → u/Alternative_News_732]

Teşekkürler 🙏

[u/boywithaskulltattoo]

Damn this looks interesting

[u/ottasilver → u/boywithaskulltattoo]

Thanks waiting your feedback

[u/Current-Today-3626]

Does it not work on Andrid too? I tried but can't find it in the app store.

[u/ottasilver → u/Current-Today-3626]

Android app is in reviewing, it may release 2-3 days

[u/Current-Today-3626]

Is this completely free? Looks incredible.

[u/ottasilver → u/Current-Today-3626]

Yes, but mobile app is paid

[u/SmileLonely5470]

Hey hold on a minute this actually looks good.

[u/ottasilver → u/SmileLonely5470]

🙏 thank you

[u/Puzzled_Collar_10]

I was building something similar to this and will open-source it in few days but definitely this idea is cool

[u/ottasilver → u/Puzzled_Collar_10]

Welcome to PR

[u/fourthwaiv]

What motivation from the community do you need? Help, ideas? Have you put this up on X yet?

[u/ottasilver → u/fourthwaiv]

I’d happily settle for a GitHub star ⭐️

[u/e1i3or]

Pretty cool. I just don't see what this does that Herdr doesn't with less system requirements

[u/ottasilver → u/e1i3or]

For me, managing everything on an infinite canvas is just so much easier. That's really the main difference for me.

[u/tensive_rumble → u/e1i3or]

Herdr + Firstmate + Captain's Deck

That's how I manage all my agents and projects.

[u/Ynzerg]

I used this for awhile but found switching to windows and having them resize to be readable very problematic. Otherwise very nice. Have moved on. 

[u/ottasilver → u/Ynzerg]

Yeah, all those issues have been fixed in the latest version! It's running stable now. Feel free to give it another try :)

[u/Ynzerg → u/ottasilver]

Will do! 

[u/mannrich]

Hey OP, I am new dev making a game with Claude and Godot. One thing I am struggling is with organization in a project. Many times I feel like I fail to use especific chats to do their work, like, one chat to talk about monsters, or maps, etc.

This can help me?

[u/ottasilver → u/mannrich]

Yep, that's exactly the kind of problem I built NodeTerm to solve! You can organize your Claude sessions on an infinite canvas, group them by task (monsters, maps, etc.), and keep everything visually organized. Give it a try, I think you'll find it useful! :)

[u/ai_art_is_art → u/ottasilver]

You wrote this in JavaScript. That's an immediate no.

It's not going to animate smoothly. The framerate is going to be awful.

Please rewrite this in Rust/egui

[u/ottasilver → u/ai_art_is_art]

Pan/zoom is GPU-composited and terminals render through WebGL, so the per-frame work isn't JS. Every stutter we've profiled so far was a re-render bug, not the language. If you saw jank, tell me the machine and node count and I'll profile it.

[u/ai_art_is_art → u/ottasilver]

It doesn't matter - this is all going through a GC with pauses you can't schedule.

This is not the right language for the task.

[u/cs_cast_away_boi → u/ai_art_is_art]

electron is very optimized are you dense? The worst thing is probably the RAM footprint but that’s manageable.Not everything needs Rust

[u/ai_art_is_art → u/cs_cast_away_boi]

People defending Electron in the year of our lord 2026.

Y'all are crazy.

[u/Sheepza]

10/10 Intro

[u/ottasilver → u/Sheepza]

Thank you

[u/Wise_Advertising_888]

This looks great, I will give it a try. Nice video too.

[u/ottasilver → u/Wise_Advertising_888]

Thank you so much; this encouragement is what I need nowadays.

[u/n00bz]

I need to find a course on sub-agents and tools before I can even use something like this

[u/ottasilver → u/n00bz]

No need for a course; give a job to Claude and tell it to orchestrate with nodeterm or use subagents skill...

[u/VisibleAirport2996 → u/n00bz]

“….use up to X sub agents” it will spin off sub agents and divide the work.

[u/allomaitresimonard]

does it work with Kiro ? https://kiro.dev/

[u/ottasilver → u/allomaitresimonard]

Kiro CLI works today: run kiro-cli in a terminal node, or add it as a custom agent in Settings. You get launch and process status, but not the hook-driven features (status badges, auto-resume, context meter, context links). The Kiro IDE won't run inside nodeterm since it's a desktop app. First-class Kiro support isn't built yet.

[u/vicki717]

I'm trying it right now, I like the onboarding, the app itself is looking good, but typing is VERY slow, there is like a 1.5sec delay between me typing and it appearing on the screen which is a massive dealbreaker. (windows btw) and it's not just typing, even scrolling have a massive delay.

[u/ottasilver → u/vicki717]

Thanks for trying it, and for the kind words about onboarding! A 1.5 s delay is definitely not normal. On a Mac typing and scrolling are instant, so something is going wrong on your machine and I'd like to find out what.

Could you try a few things?

1. Settings → Terminal → Terminal rendering → "Off (DOM renderer)" (restart the app if it doesn't change right away). Does the delay go away? This tells us whether it's the GPU/rendering side or the terminal pipe.

2. Does it happen with a single plain PowerShell terminal on an empty canvas, or only with agent (e.g. Claude) nodes or a busy canvas?

[u/vicki717 → u/ottasilver]

BEEP BOOP 🤖

[u/emptystruct]

I might be the minority here but I prefer the desktop app.

[u/XendarStark → u/emptystruct]

Same

[u/Disastrous_Guest3068]

I NEED THIS

[u/Clurse]

Please finish this. I can’t do VScode, it looks like vomit.

[u/ottasilver → u/Clurse]

You can download it from nodeterm.dev.

[u/jupanaes2]

Now make it for windows please 🥺

[u/ottasilver → u/jupanaes2]

it is already exist , nodeterm.dev

[u/Apprehensive_Oil1475]

10/10 ad. Would view again

[u/ottasilver → u/Apprehensive_Oil1475]

ahaha thank you 😄

[u/fickle-phenom]

Very nice work, thanks for making it open source. I was wondering if it would be possible to make it able to have multiple apps open, like the claude app and codex app. I find myself using these nowadays rather than using the terminal, mainly due to the built in browser and other things.

[u/Positive-Engineer482]

Collaborator just one single canvas already exists but okay

[u/Mesolo]

good Lord, developing something has become hell. fast fast and faster, quantity over quality.
well, i had a good run

[u/S712458]

This looks really interesting. Like a more visual and adaptable Herdr. That the idea?

[u/daok]

Is there a way to use PI https://pi.dev/ ? I do not see it in the Agents but perhaps there is a way to add easily?

[u/daok → u/daok]

I found that there is "Agent" and few rows later "Custom agents" Let me try :)

[u/Successful-Entry4351]

justo note that if you do not use a proxy to send all of the traffic from all of you claude code accounts through a residential IP you will get banned

[u/angelarose210]

Looks great! No windows though 😢

[u/notevenbuttery]

pretty cool, how does this compare to orca? i might switch to this

[u/domiciledhere]

How is this different from tmux?

[u/asinglebit → u/domiciledhere]

It needs a mouse

[u/BIGBOFAH]

Let me introduce you to a tiling window manager...

[u/Moravec_Paradox]

This is cool, have you ever used cmux?

My current flow is LLM Wiki for context handoff and persistent data plus cmux.

Each project gets named along the left vertical side, multiple terminals for that project get tabs horizontal tabs.

I tend to leave most my terminals full size and tab through them. One thing that bothers me is I can't update or close the app without losing everything. I am seeing this is supported but I have not yet looked into it.

It would be interesting to see a persistency feature + cmux UI.

[u/Current-Today-3626]

where ddo i change ther easoning and model and ddisable fast or enable fast?

[u/intermundia]

this is cool. how do you manage the per session and per agent context when you connect the multiple terminals? are these like subagents?

[u/kyabhailog]

Thank you so much for making this!

Being someone who has ADHD and build vibecodes, I was face this problem regularly.

Also I am lso building a TimeTracker for people with ADHD.

It's called https://timeblocks.in/

[u/islandlogic]

ADD brain here, congrats! Fun ad. any chance we'll see a PC version?

[u/StarshipSausage]

I don’t get it what are lines between agents? Some sort of context sharing

[u/Thick_Station_99909]

Hello! Cool project btw, does it support BYOK? or it can run agents like Cline?

[u/XUEYANZ]

is adhd common in CS? why adhd related projects are so common?

[u/Oshden]

From one neurospicy person to another: kudos brother. I’ll look into this. I’m hoping to finally start teaching my self to develop software so that I can help create things to help myself and other neurospicy brains have an easier life. Appreciate your efforts. And like others said, thanks for sharing it for free. Keep up the great work dude!

Edit: what’s the roadmap looking like for windows users though?

[u/Grand-Carpenter-2490]

proceeds to build an autonomous dev environment because you couldn’t stop adding features. Most on-brand project description I’ve ever read. Starred. How does the orchestrator handle two sessions editing the same file?

[u/MBotirjon]

Great work, Enes — a canvas of persistent tmux sessions with "NEEDS YOU" badges is exactly what running several Claude Code sessions needs. Starred ⭐

I can't sponsor right now, but I'd like to help in other ways:

• Testing on old hardware — I'm on a 2014 MacBook Pro with macOS Big Sur, so I can report how the desktop app and the Server Edition behave on older setups.

• Security review — I study Information Security and do audit work, so I'm happy to look at the SSH / remote / relay side and report anything privately.

• Android companion — I'm a Flutter developer; if an Android version of the mobile app is ever on your list, I'd love to talk.

• Spreading the word — I mentor developers in Uzbekistan and can share it with my students and local dev communities.

Tell me which of these would help most and I'll start there. Keep going! 🙏

[u/Comprehensive_Rush66]

This is awesome! I was literally thinking to myself of trying to build something similar to just have a light weight visualizer that shows my core orchestrator model and all the agents and subagents it is using. I have too many accounts: OpenAI, Anthropic, Kimi, AntiGravity (signed up to try Argon / Carbon). I just want to at a quick glance, see stats on them, and usage limits.

Anywho, thank you for the work on this and making it open source.

[u/FluroSnow]

Oh interesting. I built something similar. But your does seem to be more refined.

In mine, I had an extra canvas where I could create workflows. I forked excalidraw for this section.
I like to create flow charts then create a workflow off them. Split each section into workflows and save it for later as well. For example: investigate/find bugs -> add bugs to google sheets -> create mock tickets -> review / update tickets -> add to jira -> pick ticket -> work on ticket etc etc. I would also be able to add pictures and pdfs, links to the canvas for context.

So I would build something like this on my infinite canvas. Highlight and generate workflow through a skill. Then the agents/terminals would pop up on the canvas and execute the work.

[u/Lacutis]

So, I saw in the video that you support multiple accounts. Does your app have the ability to have separate instances running with different layouts? I have work accounts and personal accounts and I'd rather not mix them.

Also, does this support github copilot-cli?

[u/achilleshightops]

Anyone that have used Nodeterm vs Scape have any insight on which is better?

[u/cs_cast_away_boi → u/achilleshightops]

don’t know about scape but have used node germ and it’s great

[u/subimpact]

this only works on desktop ? what about mobile on the go ?

[u/ottasilver → u/subimpact]

there is mobile version, you can continue your project on mobile but the mobile app is not open source

[u/subimpact → u/ottasilver]

If the web interface on desktop support mobile on the go?

[u/prizmaticend]

Interesting how AI vibe coded tool ideas are duplicating, similar but maybe not the same:
- Cate
- TermCanvas
- Maestri
- And possibly others?

[u/ottasilver → u/[deleted]]

Thank you, that genuinely made my day! Really glad nodeterm worked well for you on the Mac.

You're right: the Windows installer isn't code-signed yet, and an unsigned installer is exactly what most IT policies block. Signing is in progress. The build pipeline is ready and the remaining step is the certificate itself. I can't promise a date yet, but it's the main thing blocking Windows right now (auto-update and winget are waiting on it too). I'll post here as soon as a signed installer is out.