An easy to use character based menu program written in C - use it to automate some of those regular tasks. Takes a simple input text file and draws a menu (uses curses or newt with a common menu input file). Takes up to 30 options per menu, curses menu draws one or two columns columns, newt provides a scrollable list.

PHP extension for newt programming library (console based widget toolkit)

a newt binding library for Lua 5.3

GTK port of RedHat's Newt toolikt

Declarative Rapid Application Development like it's the 1980's again.

lua bindings for newt ncurses toolkit (LADI project modifications)