It's my first Rust project, and I've found Rust to be amazing once you cross over the learning hurdle. The biggest issue was of course the borrow checker, but for a project like this where you aren't really iterating much on the design (as opposed to say a game dev), it lets you fly. It saves you from all the big mistakes and allows you to comfortably use threads and things. No idea how I would have made it without rust_analyzer, though.

Egui was simple to get going, while it has some downsides being an immediate mode UI, those are mostly overcome by the caching necessary for rendering documents, etc.

Absolutely. Overbought. They're owned by Microsoft. Go to a legal tech conference and there are thousands of vendors and not a single MSFT representative. All they want to do is push more Azureware on the deep pockets of profitable firms.

> Is the docx format fully supported?

It will be. There are certainly edge case features that don't render correctly yet, but those will come. The 80% that we care about should work. No data will be dropped, as mentioned elsewhere it will just look bad and gracefully degrade behind the scenes to a safe representation that ensures the data isn't lost.

> Can one person use Tritium without affecting others?

Yes, it's totally private and secure. Using Tritium doesn't require any cloud access or anything like that (other than to phone home with the auto-update or your LLM integration). I'm going to link the history to a separate hidden directory in the filesystem a la .git in the future which will allow some basic multi-editor features.

> Other than tabs, what does Tritium offer that two Word panes and a file browser pane tiled on screen can't cover?

Great question! It does the things lawyers care about: help them pick out symbols (defined terms, specifically) and run diffs (redlines) cheap and quick. It also renders PDFs (using pdfium).

> I am interested in developing software in this space, so these are earnest questions and not criticism.

Drop a line to the email in my bio. I'd love to chat offline.

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... and also because it is ambiguous / error-prone / subject to interpretation, especially when figuring out antecedents of pronouns, referents, and textual boundaries.

I tried four times to read the above by paragraph without reformatting it with some parentheses etc, but failed.

I've gone back and forth on the UX idea, and while I do agree, it's important that Tritium selects for users that are going to be able to quickly adopt the newer concepts. Just simply presenting a "better Word" isn't really going to move the needle. It's really a shift in expectations. That said, I have recently backed off defaulting to dark mode to make it feel slightly more familiar.

[Person] - hope you're well! I wanted to put Tritium on your radar. It's a word processor jacked on steroids built just for transactional lawyers.

From built-in defined term annotation to multi-document search/replace to redlining and much, much more, it will help your team work faster and more effectively on existing Word documents and PDFs. You'll even pick up errors from outside counsel.

Tritium runs on Windows, MacOS and even Linux for your most tech savvy lawyers.

Please let me know if that might be good for your legal team, and I'd love to demo it for you."

Egui is great!

I talked a little about this back in September: https://www.legalinnovators.co.uk/post/legal-innovators-uk-t...

Try the download!

I think we technical folk need to build technical tools for us to use while we explore the space and iterate on something that the normies will accept.

If you find anyone willing to invest money so a team can spend time on this, please let me know! :-)

Our document editor is powered by Zoho Writer, offering all the capabilities of a word processor along with versioning, document assembly, and automation features. On top of this, we’ve built structured version control, clause-level change tracking, and workflow-integrated collaboration. This enables legal and business teams to work together seamlessly without relying on external editors or juggling redlined Word files over email.

Just sharing in case anyone else here is tackling similar problems or interested in the space.

I'm fairly certain lawyers exist specifically because this is infeasible.

Shame is that monetization around them is even more exploitative than normal textbooks. You don't own them, so you can't keep or resell them once you're done, and you typically lose access to it about a week after the class ends. Many courses also issue assignments and grades through the e-textbook, so you're forced to buy it at a price they decide. Fortunately work reimbursed mine.

There's a reason it's still the standard in the legal industry.

The funny thing is that Word has tons of functionality that techies aren't aware of because they don't actually use it so they keep building products around features Word has had for years. And then they wonder why their startup failed to get any traction.

There are issues solved by the DOM for sure, but it requires shipping an entire web browser, and this product is a dedicated word processor. I’d rather face those issues head-on than defer to someone else’s implementation of such a core aspect. I know IME is broken, and Tritium’s really only able to address the needs of the happy path at the moment, but if can do that well, then there’s a business model to fund solving the edge cases to bring a real Word competitor to the desktop for lawyers.

I'd love to coordinate a demo for you personally if you can spare the time. I'm at drew@tritium.legal or you could drop your info here: https://tritium.legal/demo. I'm familiar with working with and onboarding to regulated IT departments.

[NOTE: some of the speed issues are coming from the pipes clogging up due to the traffic. There's no CDN here unfortunately.]

Transactional practices like RE, funds, capital markets, finance, derivatives, M&A are the target audience.

The roadmap includes a shared history but iManage integration is also in the works. So the experience will target google-docs like collab with something more familiar in terms of version control. That's on the roadmap though.

Can we chat offline? drew@tritium.legal