base on An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Mac.  # rem 🧠 Remember everything. (very alpha - [download anyway](https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem/releases)) --- ## 🚨 Looking for contributions / help! 🚨 I would love to keep this project alive and growing, but can't do it alone. If you're at all interested in contributing, please feel free to reach out, start a discussion, open a PR, look at issues, look at roadmap below, etc. Something not working properly? There's no telemtry or tracking, so I won't know! Please log an issue or take a crack at fixing it yourself and submitting a PR! Have feature ideas? Log an issue! Want to learn more about the code? Here's the [Generated Wiki](https://wiki.mutable.ai/jasonjmcghee/rem) --- ### Original Demo <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/091a48b318f04f22bdada62716298948"> <img style="max-width:300px;" src="https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/091a48b318f04f22bdada62716298948-with-play.gif"> </a> An open source approach to locally record everything you view on your Mac (prefer other platforms? come help build [xrem](https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/xrem), cross-platform version of this project). _Note: Only tested on Apple Silicon, but [there is now an intel build](https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem/releases) --- ### This is an early version (rem could use _your_ help!) Please log any bugs / issues you find! 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 telemetry has the potential to leak private info. This is 100% local. Please, read the code yourself. Also, that means there is no tracking / analytics of any kind, which means I don't know you're running into bugs when you do. So please report any / all you find! ## Features: - [x] Automatically take a screenshot every 2 seconds, recognizing all text, using an efficient approach in terms of space and energy - [x] Go back in time (full-screen scrubber of everything you've viewed) - [x] Copy text from back in time - [x] Search everything you've viewed with keyword search (and filter by application) - [x] Easily grab recent context for use with LLMs - [x] [Intel build](https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem/releases) (please help test!) - [x] It "works" with external / multiple monitors connected - [ ] Natural language search / agent interaction via updating local vector embedding - [I've also been exploring novel approaches to vector dbs](https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/portable-hnsw) - [ ] Novel search experiences like spatial / similar images - [ ] More search filters (by time, etc.) - [ ] Fine-grained purging / trimming / selecting recording - [ ] Better / First-class multi-monitor support ## Getting Started - [Download the latest release](https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem/releases), or build it yourself! - 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 "Show Me My Data" to open a finder window where `rem` stores SQLite db + video recordings - Click "Purge All Data" to delete everything (useful if something breaks) (that should be all that's needed) ## Build it yourself - Clone the repo `git clone --recursive -j8 https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem.git` or run `git submodule update --init --recursive` after cloning - Open project in Xcode - Product > Archive - Distribute App - Custom - Copy App ### FAQ - Where is my data? - Click "Show Me My Data" in the tray / status icon menu - Currently it is stored in: `~/Library/Containers/today.jason.rem/Data/Library/Application Support/today.jason.rem` - It was originally: `~/Library/Application\ Support/today.jason.rem/` ### (Never)AQ - Wow that logo is so great, you're an artist. Can I see your figma? - So nice of you to say, sure [here it is](https://www.figma.com/file/Rr2vUXjsRb9SJMssQbEllA/rem-icons?type=design&node-id=0%3A1&mode=design&t=QhtJ7L1z4rIXTG4M-1) ### XCode + copy / paste from history: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem/assets/1522149/97acacb9-b8c6-4b9c-b452-5423fb4e4372 ", Assign "at most 3 tags" to the expected json: {"id":"6474","tags":[]} "only from the tags list I provide: []" returns me the "expected json"