looks nice!

another open source one of these I found intriguing: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

i personally worry about these slowing down my machine but I'm torn because for privacy reasons I'd only ever use the local versions.

I’ve used REM a few times. Can’t keep it running in the background unfortunately because it does crash if the device is under heavy load

I haven't seen / heard of this happening! Appreciate you mentioning it here. Can you give me an example of the workflow that caused this?

At the least we should just pause recording in this case...

I haven’t used any but I’ve been intrigued lately to try them. I agree that performance impact could be a major concern. It’s the main reason I haven’t tried yet.Especially using and processing video instead of screenshots. I have a desktop and a laptop - it’d be nice if it was possible to offload processing from the laptop to a remote host. Maybe even just use public APIs for those willing to take the privacy risk. Rewind and commercial offerings wouldn’t be so bad if you knew the only dependency was an inference API instead of remote databases and storage.

How about dedicated external system for this, running on rPi or proxmox instance. On the local macgine app should only record screenshots on major scene change and save them on remote fs where it would go tgrough ocr, indexing, embeddings, whatnot.

I’ve long thought maybe I wanted something like this, but also quickly rejected every time. It’s fascinating that the idea is having a moment now.

They give us cure, while they hide our true medicine which is 'ls -1 | xargs cat | grep <search term>'.

I know you are joking but why would you ever do that?

You could use all those instead:

  grep -r <pattern>
  grep <pattern> *
  cat * | grep <pattern>

It's amazing how many copycats Rewind has inspired, open source to almighty MS.

A lot of us have been experimenting with these kinds of systems but not publishing them for various reasons; many aren't copycatting M$ so much as inspired to get their projects out.

Here here.

This idea is as old as writing itself! Here’s an app from the 2000s that did this sort of thing. https://timesnapper.com/

Oldest similar idea I can think of is from 1945, called the Memex:

> Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

Well the advantage at least is that you can see if it is storing everything locally or not.

Does MS plan to have such feature in their future versions of Windows?