🧠 Remember everything. (very alpha)
An open source approach to locally record everything you view on your Apple Silicon computer.
Note: Only tested on Apple Silicon, and the release is Apple Silicon.
Please log any bugs / issues you find!
Working on getting the build code signed / official... fighting with hardened runtime + bundled ffmpeg.
Looking at this code and grimacing? Want to help turn this project into something awesome? Please contribute. I haven't written Swift since 2017. I'm sure you'll write better code than me.
I think the idea of recording everything you see has the potential to change how we interact with our computers, and believe it should be open source.
Also, from a privacy / security perspective, this is like... pretty scary stuff, and I want the code open so we know for certain that nothing is leaving your laptop. Even logging to Sentry has the potential to leak private info.
This is 100% local. Please, read the code yourself.
I wrote this in a couple days over the holidays, and if there's one takeaway, it's that I'm a complete novice at Swift.
- Clone the repo
git clone --recursive -j8 https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem.gitor rungit submodule update --init --recursiveafter cloning - Open project in Xcode
- Change default SQLite.Swift sdk archiecture to macOS
- Product > Archive
- Distribute App
- Custom
- Copy App
- Build it yourself
- If you really don't want to, download release and run
xattr -c rem.app. This tells macos "all good". I'm not malicious, but don't take my word for it.
- If you really don't want to, download release and run
- Launch the app
- Click the brain
- Click "Start Remembering"
- Grant it access to "Screen Recording" i.e. take screenshots every 2 seconds
- Click "Open timeline" or "Cmd + Scroll Up" to open the timeline view
- Scroll left or right to move in time
- Click "Search" to open the search view
- Search your history and click on a thumbnail to go there in the timeline
- In timeline, give Live Text a second and then you can select text
- Click "Copy Recent Context" to grab a prompt for interacting with an LLM with what you've seen recently as context
- Click "Purge All Data" to delete everything (useful if something breaks)
(that should be all that's needed)
- Going back in time (full-screen scrubber of everything you've viewed)
- Copy text from back in time
- Search everything you've viewed
- Easily grab recent context for use with LLMs
- Natural language search / agent interaction via updating local vector embedding
- Multi-monitor support
- Where is my data?
~/Library/Application\ Support/today.jason.rem/