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Great project! Looking forward to trying it out in my law practice.

The name causes miscues and carries negative connotations, though, on account of its homonym verb (doxxing).

It's 100% intentional wordplay! "Doxxing" documents by exposing their contents in the terminal instead of keeping them locked in Microsoft Word. The whole project is about "liberation from Office" so the pun felt perfect. I'm honestly not too creative so I was bouncing around with Google Gemini on some "clever" names.

Some people may not want to have a tool called "doxx" installed on their work machines, FWIW.

This is such a non-issue, it's just a name.

If someone asks about it "It's a tool to view docx files", end of conversation

We've got `git` (an insult), `kill` (violent), `slack` (not doing work) and `fsck` (looks like fuck). Doxx seems ok to me too.

I've seen the `itsdangerous` [1] package (which is a dependency for lot of Python projects) raise some eyebrows several times.

[1] https://itsdangerous.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/

I get the sense you've never worked under the oppresive thumb of dashboard-driven enterprise IT, heh

I am genuinely curious, as to how this would be a solution for a law practice? How many lawyers are SSH'd into servers? Or am I being ignorant?

It doesn't have to be used over SSH, some lawyers might be comfortable using the terminal for local work

As a non-lawyer who’s nonetheless been asked to help to review internal documents en masse - the idea of a fully scriptable <50ms switch time between documents is quite appealing. AI can help with initial screening, but there are many situations where humans are asked or required to do review at scale.

I hate Word but sometimes have to deal with it when I would rather just have plain text. (Among other reasons, Word is notorious for making it difficult to select text to copy and paste, especially when dealing with legal citations and quotations.) Furthermore, the structure of documents is important to understanding them, especially in the law. So it seems like it would be useful to work with the text of the documents without locking horns with M$.

Scripting uses interest me too. Perhaps pandoc will still be a better option, but I'm also a sucker for TUIs and _Charm projects!

I'm working to improve the copy/paste. Right now, you can copy everything, but not select snippets to copy/paste (ways around this, though). Hopefully have it working in the next week!

This is what you’re looking for: https://tritium.legal/

I saw this on HN before, but how is it for litigation?

The name could rather be docc, along the lines of thicc,

Yea I like this one, I feel like they should change the name but maybe that's just my opinion and the author is free to do what they want with the project's name.

But still doxx feels like it would just get some unwarranted attention when its unnecessary and docc seems a nice enough name too.

I mean, the project seems fantastic but still the project seems quite new and I don't think that it would suffer anything from a name change.

Was thinking the same. Might be worth looking into renaming the project, to prevent situations like that for both maintainers and users.

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