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Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by aeon_ai »

pimlottc wrote: post #12
jerryliu12 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recall (and Rewind) are similar in the sense that they both use screen data, but it's designed for retrieving specific things you saw, not semantically summarizing your time. My opinion is that they're completely different feature sets.

The backlash for Recall was not based on the feature set, it was because of the massive privacy and security concerns.

Which are wildly different when comparing a third-party hosted product (i.e., Microsoft), and a self-hosted OSS application that can use a self-hosted Ollama model.

The feature isn't the problem.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by jerryliu12 »

laurieg wrote: post #15

Really nice! I currently use ActivityWatch for tracking tasks on PC. Some things I would like to be able to do with software like this: - Identify the 'spark' of a distraction. For example, opening my email inbox to read a specific email also shows me many unrelated emails. These can easily be the cause of a 5-15 minute distraction. This information is often actionable. I installed browser plugins to hide my youtube…

Yep, helping people understand their distraction patterns would be an amazing feature. I find myself doing the same thing, funnily enough I also have that same Youtube extension.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by jerryliu12 »

zeroq wrote: post #17

On one hand I'm super enthusiastic about your project. This could help battle procrastination, organize your time in a long run, bill your clients more efficiently, etc. 20 years younger, hyper productive me would kill for such product. But then I recall when I accidently suggested TimeRescue to my boss at one time, and suddenly he was skimming though everyones daily logs to see if they're spending 100% of their time…

Yea, honestly I would hate if people used this to track _other_ people, especially bosses. I wanted to build something that gave people more agency to do more with their precious time, but there definitely is a fine line here.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by jerryliu12 »

anyg wrote: post #19

Couldn't we get a low-res version of this info by tracking the active window using a cli tool? For linux, there are several options. Not sure about Mac. Another approach is to run OCR on 1FPS screenshots. Everything runs locally without draining the battery like an LLM would.

You definitely could! I think it would just be harder to get good semantic understanding of what you did during a segment of time without LLMs.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

It's somewhat related two other recent submissions,

Replace PostgreSQL with Git for your next project for git data storing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535144 https://devcenter.upsun.com/posts/why-you-should-replace-pos...

Consumer.today day-logging single user microsite. https://consumed.today/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45351446

Cute serendipity, rule of three. Neat project too; conceptually it sounds like an amazing ability to be able to better watch ourselves. Doing it via screenshots & AI feels like a fun sense-making adventure that actually makes a lot of sense, that can maybe try to pick through & discern what the screen is doing in a lot of different scenarios.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by whalesalad »

andrewmutz wrote: post #16

You should sell this to Lawyers and other professionals who bill per hour to reconstruct their billables for the day without missing anything. They would pay big money for something that recovered forgotten(unbilled) work throughout the day.

I’m a software contractor and I’ve wanted this forever. I’m prototyping something on Linux now.

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Post by jerryliu12 »

yewenjie wrote: post #28

I would not be comfortable sending my bank info passwords and all sorts of other sensitive data that I input and see on my screen to Gemini. How much is the qualitative performance difference with a local model?

If I had to put a grade on my own experience and evals, Gemini 2.5 pro produces A- results and qwen2.5vl is maybe like B-/C+. Obviously everything's nondetermistic, so it's hard to guarantee a level of quality.

I'm reading through papers that suggest it should be possible to get SOTA performance on local models via distillation, and that's what I'll experiment with next.

Re: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Post by mellosouls »

andrewmutz wrote: post #16

You should sell this to Lawyers and other professionals who bill per hour to reconstruct their billables for the day without missing anything. They would pay big money for something that recovered forgotten(unbilled) work throughout the day.

Per hour? In the UK they bill by the 6-minute! If ever anything told you something about a profession...
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