# Install nkt with Homebrew

TUI for fast and simple interacting with your BibLaTeX database. Version 0.3.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-14.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:nkt
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install nkt
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:nkt
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.1
- **Source summary:** TUI for fast and simple interacting with your BibLaTeX database
- **Homepage:** <https://git.sr.ht/~fjebaker/nkt>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-14T14:13:25-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- nkt (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.3.1
## Project history and usage

nkt is a small Sourcehut-hosted Zig command-line/TUI tool by Fergus Baker. Homebrew describes the formula as a BibLaTeX database TUI, while the upstream repository summary and README describe it as terminal note-taking software for notes, journals, tasks, chains, tags, and fuzzy finding; that metadata mismatch keeps this enrichment conservative.

### Project history

The visible tag history begins with alpha-v0.2.4 on September 29, 2024, followed by 0.3.0 on April 18, 2025 and 0.3.1 on October 18, 2025. The current README emphasizes plain-text/JSON storage, bring-your-own-editor workflows, and note-taking idioms inspired by Dendron, jrnl, vim-wiki, incremental note-taking, habit chains, and Zettelkasten.

### Adoption history

Adoption appears tiny and mostly experimental. Homebrew's formula API reported 8 installs in 30 days, 17 in 90 days, and 33 in 365 days when checked on July 1, 2026; that matches a personal-productivity tool with a narrow audience rather than an ecosystem fixture.

### How it is used

Users initialize an `~/.nkt` workspace with `nkt init`, then log journal entries, edit named notes with their normal editor, add tasks, track habit chains, tag entries, and use fuzzy search to get information back out. The package is interesting mainly to terminal-workflow collectors and plain-text knowledge-base users.

### Timeline

- 2024-09-29: first visible alpha tags in Sourcehut.
- 2025-04-18: 0.3.0 tag.
- 2025-10-18: 0.3.1 tag used by Homebrew.
- 2026-05-27: Sourcehut log shows continued maintenance activity.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/nkt.json>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nkt>
- <https://git.sr.ht/~fjebaker/nkt>
- <https://git.sr.ht/~fjebaker/nkt/refs>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/nkt.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/nkt.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph