If you don’t jump around a lot between boxes, having a large HISTSIZE can be sufficient: you can write inline comments after fancy one-liners, and use Ctrl-R to

If you don’t jump around a lot between boxes, having a large HISTSIZE can be sufficient: you can write inline comments after fancy one-liners, and use Ctrl-R to find keywords in the comments. Another option is to make functions, aliases, or scripts as a way of saving those tricks. Not applicable to all tricks, but stuff like “embed all referenced fonts in a PDF file using `gs`” or “get me the ISO 8601 week using `date`” is way easier to use when you wrap it like this.