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I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by interstice »

aspenmayer wrote: post #5

Similar project for macOS which is also open source: https://rem.ing https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem Previously submitted on HN by the dev with some decent discussion 3 months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38787892

I spent ages looking for something like this for Mac before giving up and writing a script that takes screenshots every 10 seconds and another script to compile that up into video using ffmpeg!

I'd love to contribute but I know nothing about Swift, mine was all in bash scripts with launchd to run them.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by earleybird »

LeonB wrote: post #109
doodlebugging wrote: post #90

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No, thank you! Your hard work and thoughtful programming not only made it possible for me to document my efforts no matter what I was doing on my machines, but it made it easy. That is the true measure of success with any programming effort. You created a product that 1) I could install on my machines, read through the documentation and understand how to make it work for me without any friction since it is well-docum…

Thanks again. Btw, I certainly didn't code it and maintain it single-handed -- my co-founder Atli Björgvin Oddsson deserves the credit for all the good bits. I have to say -- I'd rather you worked sane hours, and pushed back a bit. You only get one life, and giving too much of your time to (for example -- as I've spent years in that industry too) the oil and gas industry isn't everything in life. "You work sixteen ho…

Perhaps not a blues but folk legend Merle Travis :-)

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

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by justinlloyd »

LeonB wrote: post #24
karencarits wrote: post #21

For Windows, there is also TimseSnapper [1], not open source, but the developer is sometimes here on HackerNews [1] https://timesnapper.com/

Cheers, yeh, I am here a bit.

Have been running TimeSnapper non-stop on my Windows laptop and Windows workstation since... January 1st, 2006 at 11:16AM. That's almost 18 years of desktop capture. Crazy to think about that. I may have been running it prior to that, but that's the first recorded date on my saved captures. 50% resolution. 60% quality. JPEG. The entire screen and any attached monitors. Hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of my daily professional and personal life. Captured once every 10 seconds. The movies I've watched. The games I've played. The thoughts I've had. The code I wrote. All of it captured.

Prior to TimeSnapper for Mac I ran my own little script, and a companion one for Linux. Now I have TimeSnapper on my Macbook Pro too. And if you ever create a Linux version (or want someone to create a Linux version), let me know. I'd be happy to beta test.

I've lost count of the number of times that TimeSnapper has saved my arse, either with accidentally deleted data, finding an obscure web page, proving I did something on a specific date/time, or that something happened in the way I say it did, or recovering the keys to a small amount of Ethereum and Dogecoin stored in a wallet.

Thank you for TimeSnapper. It has been interesting to use it for that length of time.

"Four weeks work in 9 minutes" captured by TimeSnapper where I create a video game (or three) in October of 2012 http://www.otakunozoku.com/video/working.flv

Sorry, it's an flv, along with an onion on your belt, it was the fashion back in the day

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by shiroiushi »

hu3 wrote: post #22

It would be cool to: 1) Make a Meta Smart Glasses take a photo every 2 seconds. 2) Send images to some server in the cloud. 3) Run OCR and object detection/labeling on these images. 4) Then present an app that allows searching (and chatting with) your past. I could then ask the LLM things like: 1) Where did I left my wallet? 2) Did I get my credit card back after paying the restaurant yesterday? (ADHD things, don't a…

>2) Did I get my credit card back after paying the restaurant yesterday?

A restaurant should never be taking your credit card out of your view, ever. Really, they should not even be handling it: you should be swiping it yourself at the terminal at the cash register when you pay before leaving.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by wingerlang »

JoBrad wrote: post #53
modeless wrote: post #52

Has anyone built something like this using accessibility APIs instead of (or in addition to) OCR? It seems like a waste to OCR everything when you could just get the text directly from the accessibility APIs. Also seems like potentially a good way to connect LLMs to UIs, and something like this would be the way to collect the training data.

It would also be great to have the foreground apps as metadata.

This is what I added to my macOS app recently, foreground app metadata. It is displayed on the timeline if you look at the pictures on my website (screenmemory.app). For my use case it was night and day in UX.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by hn72774 »

Intralexical wrote: post #68
beeboobaa3 wrote: post #36

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Did you actually build it or just write a paper? Where can I download it?

Previously commented with some other details. TL;DR: It's an old PhD project that requires custom patches to an ancient kernel version. So I guess you can't download it, and even if you could it wouldn't work on any system you'd want to use today: > compsciphd on Oct 11, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snap... > we used NILFS 15 years ago in dejaview - https://ww…

> I've been looking into it myself though, mostly for forensic concerns (capturing state/evidence in a way that's harder to forge than screenshots).

For what kinds of surveillance? Why is the forgery-proofing important for the playbacks?

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Post by LeonB »

justinlloyd wrote: post #123
LeonB wrote: post #24

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Cheers, yeh, I am here a bit.

Have been running TimeSnapper non-stop on my Windows laptop and Windows workstation since... January 1st, 2006 at 11:16AM. That's almost 18 years of desktop capture. Crazy to think about that. I may have been running it prior to that, but that's the first recorded date on my saved captures. 50% resolution. 60% quality. JPEG. The entire screen and any attached monitors. Hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of my daily p…

Wow, Justin, cheers.

It looks like the first version was available ~ mid November 2005 (via https://secretgeek.net/snapper_wins) and available from the TimeSnapper.com domain from ~ November 28 2005. (https://secretgeek.net/TimeSnapper_ready_at_last)

So you got in very early!

The professional version was a year or two later.

cheers

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by RamblingCTO »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #48
aspenmayer wrote: post #5

Similar project for macOS which is also open source: https://rem.ing https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem Previously submitted on HN by the dev with some decent discussion 3 months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38787892

Author of rem here. Come join in on development! It's MIT Licensed. I also kicked off a cross-platform version in rust https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/xrem which is earlier in development and could use even more help.

Awesome! But how about private browser windows?
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