---
name: "Paper"
subtitle: "A journaling CLI that leaves you receipts"
date: 2026-07-27
shortlist: true
link: "https://paper.rewrlution.com/"
linkText: "paper.rewrlution.com"
source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
topics: [cli-and-automation, writing-and-notes]
tags: [journal, terminal, free]
description: "A terminal journal for developers: one line a day, a follow-up question so you are never staring at a blank prompt, no account required."
---

Your tools remember what shipped, not why you chose it or what you were afraid would break — and that second thing is what review season actually runs on. Type `paper`, write what happened, and it asks a follow-up rather than leaving you facing an empty prompt. Installed with npm, free to write forever, no account, and it lives in the window you never close anyway.