Enjoying terminal user interfaces: aerc, newsboat and tooi

Despite it being a good two years since I’ve made vim my only text editor again, I hadn’t really gotten deeper into using more terminal (or text-base) user interface (TUI) for a while. With Gemini I started reading gemtext, but that was mostly it. But then the tooi-client for Mastodon really became a game changer, both because of how well-made tooi is and due to how easy it makes it to quickly read through posts. Overall, that positive experience made me seek out some more options. I had planned to write up a bit about it, partially for my own note-taking, but then forgot until about reading this toot about everything being vim all the way down today! Beyond reading gemini and Mastodon via the terminal – and writing my blog posts and code in vim, I’ve recently started to also push most of my reading of RSS feeds and reading/answering email into the text interface, with newsboat and aerc respectively. In addition to the quite distraction-free reading in a text-only environment - it…