Dotty – a TUI to navigate all your dotfiles from anywhere in one command
Dotty is a terminal UI designed for navigating dotfiles in the user's home directory. It allows users to run commands from any directory while providing an expandable tree view and a fuzzy finder for quick access. The tool can be installed via a pre-built binary or from source, and it supports various operating systems.
- ▪Dotty scans the home directory for dotfiles and dot-directories, displaying them in an expandable tree format.
- ▪Users can install Dotty by downloading a pre-built binary or by building it from source using Go.
- ▪The tool includes features like a fuzzy finder for quick navigation and clipboard integration for copying file paths.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/RiccardoCataldi/dotty |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 12:20:35 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T12:29:36.408Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T12:29:36.408Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | nHZvFETqQukA |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
dotty Terminal UI for browsing dotfiles under your home directory. Run it from anywhere — it always scans ~, shows an expandable tree on the left, file preview on the right, and a fuzzy finder to jump to any path quickly. Install Run dotty from any directory once the binary is on your PATH. Pre-built binary (recommended) Download from Releases. Replace VERSION with the latest tag (e.g. v0.1.1). Platform Asset Linux x86_64 dotty_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz Linux ARM64 dotty_Linux_arm64.tar.gz macOS Intel dotty_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz macOS Apple Silicon dotty_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz VERSION=v0.1.1 curl -sL "https://github.com/RiccardoCataldi/dotty/releases/download/${VERSION}/dotty_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz" | tar xz install -m 755 dotty ~/bin/ # or: sudo install -m 755 dotty /usr/local/bin/ Ensure ~/bin or…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.