tmux really shines for me when starting or switching between projects. I can fire up a rails app with a single command and have all the tabs I like ready to go

tmux really shines for me when starting or switching between projects. I can fire up a rails app with a single command and have all the tabs I like ready to go. Check out prag prog's tmux book for a quick intro: http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux Also, tmuxinator is a nice addition if you do start using tmux. https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator