Yeah it sounds like you need tmux and / or screen as the other anons have been saying. You can then split your terminal in its window, have a status bar which can display things, create multiple virtual terminals, view them on other terminals at the same time, etc. When I was first introduced to Unix in the mid-1990s I didn't know about screen and it would have saved me a lot of pain as I used a dial up connection. Once you start using one or the other there is no going back.