Doxx
Dev tools
document viewer
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How HN took it
10 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 14 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Idea: 6 for, 12 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast startup and responsiveness
From 2 comments
Wonderful project; loved the speed and responsiveness. But a humble request: please make sure that the planned "AI integration" is completely optional, not compiled-in, or, even…
zvr on HNThanks for making this! It seems to work great, and will be convenient to have around. My one feature request would be to remove, or provide a version without, the “AI” stuff.
leephillips on HN
Useful terminal tool, fills a gap for quick docx reading
From 2 comments
It looks fantastic! That's going into my toolbox that's for sure. It's refreshing to see something that isn't another chatbot.
BrouteMinou on HNGreat project. I love anything TUI. Not so good of a name.
zipping1549 on HN
Objections
Name 'doxx' has negative connotations due to doxxing
From 5 comments
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).
treetalker on HNAgree on the second part. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doxx
agnishom on HNIt's a very pejorative term that is used with malicious intent. You don't understand why folk find it off-putting? What about something like mdocx?
16bytes on HN> "Exposing" word documents in the CLI Exposing contents is called a leak. Doxxing is exposure of a person's identity/address etc. There is no wordplay here that actually fits…
alpaca128 on HNInstalling something named "doxx" and executing it sounds like a top ten bad idea for computer users. Needs a new name, or a certain percentage of the audience will nope out…
shazbotter on HN
Requests to keep AI integration optional or separate due to privacy concerns
From 3 comments
Wonderful project; loved the speed and responsiveness. But a humble request: please make sure that the planned "AI integration" is completely optional, not compiled-in, or, even…
zvr on HNI'm usually not averse to AI in things, but I agree with you, any online functionality in a cli tool would make our security team ban a tool, and with good reason.
stavros on HNThanks for making this! It seems to work great, and will be convenient to have around. My one feature request would be to remove, or provide a version without, the “AI” stuff.
leephillips on HN
Requests
Rename the project
From 3 comments
Was thinking the same. Might be worth looking into renaming the project, to prevent situations like that for both maintainers and users.
Tmpod on HNYea 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…
Imustaskforhelp on HNThe name could rather be docc, along the lines of thicc,
nine_k on HN
Windows release and Docker image
From 2 comments
This looks great, I hope we will have releases for Windows soon. It really does going to my nerves to install MS Office on new machine, and recently I stopped doing that and use…
majkinetor on HNIt would be very nice if this were in a Docker image, so we don't need a go install.
politelemon on HN
Support for old .doc, RTF or ODT formats
From 3 comments
It would have been nice if it also parsed old DOC (and RTF) formats, maybe ODT[1] as well. [1] https://github.com/anvie/dotext
xvilka on HNHey this looks really awesome. Super helpful for those of us who are building in the document space for debugging if nothing else. Here are a couple of other projects for you to…
piker on HNInstead of Antiword, maybe using LibreOffice parsers directly would solve the problem for parsing all kinds of the documents.
xvilka on HN
Better copy and paste of selected text
From 1 comment
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…
w108bmg on HN
Questions
Does it show images?
From 1 comment
Is there no image support? You can use the kitty image protocol or sixel to display them inline no?
porridgeraisin on HN
Does it handle Track Changes, comments and metadata?
From 1 comment
Can this interact with Track Changes at all? Reviews+Comments? Probably a rat's nest of complexity, but that is something which might interest me every once and a while. The…
3eb7988a1663 on HN
Alternatives named
pandoc
From 3 comments
Can you use this to basically cat the output and then you can grep the docx? pandoc can do this
firesteelrain on HNWith pandoc you can do this I think pandoc -t plain file.docx | grep "pattern"
firesteelrain on HNVery cool! I did something like this with pandoc: ``` pandoc -s -t man "$1" | groff -T utf8 -man | ${PAGER:-less} ``` Keeps a lot or formatting. My favorite way to read a README…
ashton314 on HN
LibreOffice
From 1 comment
LibreOffice is a food alternative if you just want simple Word management. Of course it's a big install on the other hand.
jbgt on HN
tritium.legal
From 1 comment
This is what you’re looking for: https://tritium.legal/
albertgoeswoof on HN