Reading

Preview

Headings (H1 underlined, H2 and deeper with dim # markers), wrapped paragraphs, bold, italic and strikethrough, inline code, links, quotes, nested and ordered lists, task lists, box-drawn tables with alignment, and code blocks with a background and a language label. Text is wrapped at 80 columns at most and centred. Tables shrink to fit; columns that cannot fit at all are replaced by a final … column.

Heading styles

# cycles how headings are drawn and saves the choice as headings in config.json. It applies to the document, zen, the ctrl+p peek and the theme picker sample; Source is unchanged.

Style	Looks like
classic (default)	H1 underlined, H2 and deeper with dim # markers
bars	a level-coloured █ ▌ ┃ │ ┆ ┊ prefix
ladder	shade glyphs ██ ▓▓▓ ▒▒▒▒ … that thin with the level
rules	H1 and H2 run a rule to the end of the measure, H3 gets ╌╌, H4–H6 are bold colour only

Source

s swaps in the raw Markdown with line numbers and coloring (the top line shows source). Comment lines are muted and callout markers take their kind’s colour. Press s again for the Preview.

Find

/ finds in the document, n and N go to the next and previous match, in Preview or Source. Matches are highlighted and counted in the top line. esc clears.

Code highlighting

JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX/TSX and Zig fences are highlighted with OpenTUI’s tree-sitter parsers (blocks appear plain for a moment, then fill in; line positions never move). Other languages get a small fallback: comments (only the comment syntax that language uses), strings, numbers and literals. Unknown languages stay plain.

Live reload

When the open file changes on disk (an editor, Obsidian, a coding agent) brothy reloads it and keeps your place. Each changed section gets a number after its heading (¹ ² ³, a removed one’s in the margin where it was), the running head says ³ changed, the Info tab lists them with +added −removed line counts and the toast says reloaded · ³ sections changed. ⏎ on a listed section goes there, and [ ] then walk the changes. The list is local and works without AI; it compares with the text the note had when you opened it, held in memory only. A reload over 2 MB, or one that rewrites too many lines to compare quickly (a formatter run over a long note), says too large to compare.

With an ai block, D explains the change.

Minimap

From 110 columns a braille map of the note sits at the right edge (Preview and Source, never zen): headings in the H1 colour, the part on screen on a lighter band, find hits as dots in a lane beside it. Click to jump; m hides or shows it (saved as minimap).

Mouse

Click tabs, files and headings, scroll with the wheel. Selecting text copies it to the clipboard (OSC 52, so the terminal must allow it); the ghost line says copied 3 lines.