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

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Post by graeme »

scuff3d wrote: post #98

Am I the only person that sees "AI" and "screen capture" and thinks no fucking way? I switched to Linux specifically to get away from data collection, why on earth would anyone want to opt into it?

The app has a local only mode. That's just your computer chip/gpu running a language model locally. It works even if all outgoing connections are blocked, as far as I can tell. What's the threat you're worried about in that scenario?

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

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Post by owenpalmer »

astafrig wrote: post #61
rw2 wrote: post #58

I love the product concept but the fact this person has an almost empty github and suddenly launches an app that can easily be spyware concerns me a lot :). A lot of security concerns with password etc.

Could easily dismiss those concerns by looking at the source code instead of snooping around their profile, especially if you’re on GitHub anyway :)

Not saying the author has this intent, but if I was trying to spy on people, I wouldn't include spyware in the initial release...

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

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Post by LocalPCGuy »

olex wrote: post #62

Pretty nice. How does it handle multiple displays? I've set it up with local Ollama, and it seems to only record and analyze one of my two secondary displays. It would be ideal if I can select which one is used if the recording is limited to a single display, or even better if it can record and analyze the entire multi-monitor desktop surface. edit Nvm, it seems it always records the display that is currently in focu…

This was my question also, I think "even better if it can record and analyze the entire multi-monitor desktop surface" would be the best option. I don't know what the impact of that would be on both recording size and AI processing time, but just because one monitor is focused doesn't always mean what's happening on another is ignored. Some examples: an ongoing meeting or watching a video on one screen while taking notes on another; or coding on one screen and a browser/app auto-refreshing on another.

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

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Post by LocalPCGuy »

jerryliu12 wrote: post #3
tiernano wrote: post #2

wait... isnt this pretty much what Microsoft was doing with Recall?

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.

There really isn't a reason that the screen data, once you have it, can't be used for more than one thing. I would guess that there isn't a whole lot stopping Windows Recall from doing very similar things.

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

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Post by scuff3d »

graeme wrote: post #101
scuff3d wrote: post #98

Am I the only person that sees "AI" and "screen capture" and thinks no fucking way? I switched to Linux specifically to get away from data collection, why on earth would anyone want to opt into it?

The app has a local only mode. That's just your computer chip/gpu running a language model locally. It works even if all outgoing connections are blocked, as far as I can tell. What's the threat you're worried about in that scenario?

Fair enough, I didn't see that part. I'm still not interested but that seems like a far more reasonable option.

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

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Post by LocalPCGuy »

I haven't seen this mentioned, but I immediately thought this could be a great tool for folks with ADHD. The potential for seeing what kinds of things regularly trigger distraction (I know, everything, right?) and any patterns that exist (i.e. every time I make a git commit, I go check Hacker News and lose 15 minutes). As well as being able to review day that was captured automatically is huge. The best success I had with tracking what I did was when I used to use TimeRescue to ensure I had accurate record of hours for clients, but every attempt to use anything that requires manual entry fails very quickly (either too distracting everytime I use it, or I literally just forget to use it).

Going a step further, "real time" (given processing delay) to help stay on task when the focus has shifted to something unrelated (maybe allow the individual to define this or say yes/no to train the prompts as it goes).

Anyways, it looks great. I also liked the _idea_ of Windows Recall, so to see something like this that can be privacy first is really nice.

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

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Post by louis030195 »

jappwilson wrote: post #73

Similar Idea to screenpipe. That gives you more customization: github.com/mediar-ai/screenpipe

screenpipe founder here, love to see more products in this area, ideally OSS, local, no lock in, API/MCP friendly

kind of sad it's macos only, i'm mostly windows user now :)

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