Bard

Bard

What is Bard

Bard is a little TUI text editor, written in Go with 0 third-party dependencies. I wrote Bard because I wanted to have beautiful markdown rendering, similar to Obsidian, but in the terminal with Vim's motions efficiency.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6f878b12-cee0-45bd-8992-20d79b21f27b

To get general help, you can run Bard with the -h/--help flag.

Features

Explorer

You can toggle focus between the editor and file explorer tiles by pressing <ctrl+o>, or turn it on and off with <ctrl+j>.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/067044ad-fb06-44ff-bab0-aad12069e993

Editor with vim keys

Supported modes:

• Normal
• Command
• Visual
• Visual-Line

More info about every mode you can find by running :h[elp] <mode> command in Bard.

Space

Space is your own place where you can store your files. You can open it from anywhere by running Bard with the -s/--space flag. All files are stored at ~/.bard/space.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/347a0656-0f31-4208-8776-68df3133f8f6

Other

Undo/Redo and Command history

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f8df232c-0007-4ad3-8dfc-667c84f0fe7c

Code block render (both for markdown and code files)

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/47c3ea71-d33a-48c0-ad12-df87553bdba6

Continuous lists When creating a new line (with o or <enter>) on a list line, Bard will add a new line with the current list type.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bca740f6-9a5d-4f16-82a4-01a9132f95ac

Settings

At first run, Bard will create the directory ~/.bard/:

.log			// all logs are stored here
config.json		// config file
space/			// your personal Space!
themes/			// theme directory
	bard.json	// default Bard theme
	foo.json	// you can create your own theme

You can read more about this in Bard by running the following commands:

• :h[elp] config
• :h[elp] space
• :h[elp] theme

Installation

Requirements:

• NerdFont. If your terminal doesn't support Nerd Font, you can turn icons off with :si/:showicon commands in Bard.
• Go 1.25.5.

Bard is not available in any package managers yet, so to use it you have to build it:

git clone https://github.com/EnotInc/bard.git
cd bard/cmd/bard
go install

go install will build the project and add bard to the $PATH, so you don't have to worry about it.