¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

Inspired by tobi/try (via), I created my own try in pancake:

Interactive ephemeral workspace manager.

Create and navigate to temporary project directories with fuzzy finding, automatic date-prefixing, and recency scoring. Automatically spawns a new shell in the selected workspace.

Usage:

% try +feature
thiago@thiagoperrotta-MacBook-Pro ~/workspace/tries/2025-12-02-feature

This creates a dated throwaway directory wherein to make experiments. I need not worry about deleting it later.

If, in the future, I need to recall that experiment, I can simply run try feature. It will open fzf with fuzzy finding, prompting me to select a workspace.

Normally I delete these directories. This workflow encourages me to keep them around, should I need to recall something from them.

For truly throwaway directories, use cdtmp instead.