FUR

Forkable, Unearthable, Recursive memory tracker
Like git, but for conversations, ideas, and AI chats.

👉 For a more visual overview, see the FURChats portfolio site.

🤔 What is FUR?

Scrolling through endless chats to find that one reply is painful.
FUR makes it easy to track, branch, and preserve your conversations as trees you can navigate, fork, and export.

With FUR you can:

• Jot quick notes or attach Markdown files.
• Chat long-form messages interactively (paste documents straight in).
• Branch & fork conversations into multiple futures.
• Jump backward or forward to any message.
• See threads as timelines or trees.
• Switch between multiple threads easily.
• Assign avatars (🦊 you, 🤖 bots, 👤 others — customizable).
• Script conversations with .frs files.
• Export threads to Markdown or PDF.

Think of it as a version control system for your thoughts.

🌟 What’s New in v0.3.5 — Enter the Chat Den 🦊💬

• fur chat → interactive, long-form jotting.
  Paste Markdown, essays, or multi-line rants directly into the CLI.
  By default, FUR suggests saving inside a chats/ folder.

• Better ergonomics → chat is the natural sibling of jot.

  • fur jot → quick scratches.
  • fur chat → longer tales.

• Tests → new tests/chat.rs covers file + message creation.

🛠 How it works

FUR keeps everything inside a local .fur/ folder:

• .fur/index.json → global state
• .fur/threads/*.json → one per thread
• .fur/messages/*.json → one per message
• .fur/avatars.json → avatar mappings

Example commands

# Start fresh
fur new "Penguin talks"

# Manage avatars
fur avatar andrew               # set yourself (🦊 main)
fur avatar tengu --emoji 👺     # create a custom avatar with emoji
fur avatar --view

# Quick jot
fur jot "Just finished reading about quantum time crystals."

# Jot as a custom avatar
fur jot dr-strange "We’re in the endgame now."

# Long-form interactive jot (paste Markdown or docs)
fur chat gpt5

# Attach an existing markdown file
fur jot ai-helper --file examples/chats/QUANTUM_MANIFESTO.md

# Work with scripts
fur run examples/quantum_playground.frs
# or just:
fur examples/quantum_playground.frs

# Export views
fur timeline --contents --out CONVO.md
fur timeline --contents --out convo.pdf



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## 🚀 Installation

### From crates.io

```bash
cargo install fur-cli

From source

cargo install --path . --force

🐾 Philosophy

FUR is minimal. It's not an AI client. It's a memory tracker that respects:

• Your brain's tendency to branch.
• Your need to retrace steps.
• Your desire to keep everything.

Avatars keep things clear: 🦊 (you), 🤖 (AI/bots), 👤 (others). But you can always customize them (fur avatar tengu --emoji 👺).

Goal: Make recursive thinking natural.

🛣 Roadmap to v1.0

✅ Already complete (v0.3)

• Threads (fur new, fur thread)
• Avatars (fur avatar)
• Jotting text & files (fur jot)
• Tree / Timeline views
• Jumping & forking
• .frs scripting system (branching supported here)
• VS Code highlighting for .frs
• Thread import / export
• Markdown & PDF rendering
• Polished exports (Markdown/PDF with styles, embedded assets)

🔜 Planned for future releases

• fur rm → delete messages directly in the CLI
• fur move → replace / reorder messages in a thread
• fur branch → create branches interactively in the CLI (currently only in .frs scripts)
• Interactive editing flows for power users
• Richer exports (metadata, tags, avatars)

🎉 v1.0 Milestone

• Full editing suite: add, delete, move, replace, fork, branch — all stable
• Rock-solid .frs import/export parity (round-trip safe)
• Robust test coverage & docs
• Consider cross-platform packaging (Homebrew, Scoop, etc.)

📜 License

MIT, like almost everything else that's friendly and open-source.