Windrecorder – Personal Memory Search Engine

https://github.com/yuka-friends/Windrecorder

by gnabgib • 2 years ago

113 16 2 years ago

esafak• 2 years ago

It's amazing how many copycats Rewind has inspired, open source to almighty MS.

A lot of us have been experimenting with these kinds of systems but not publishing them for various reasons; many aren't copycatting M$ so much as inspired to get their projects out.

lostmsu• 2 years ago

Here here.

zitterbewegung• 2 years ago

Well the advantage at least is that you can see if it is storing everything locally or not.

CGamesPlay• 2 years ago

This idea is as old as writing itself! Here’s an app from the 2000s that did this sort of thing. https://timesnapper.com/

CaptainOfCoit• 2 years ago

Oldest similar idea I can think of is from 1945, called the Memex:

Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility".

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

rgbrgb• 2 years ago

looks nice!

another open source one of these I found intriguing: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

i personally worry about these slowing down my machine but I'm torn because for privacy reasons I'd only ever use the local versions.

vineyardmike• 2 years ago

I haven’t used any but I’ve been intrigued lately to try them. I agree that performance impact could be a major concern. It’s the main reason I haven’t tried yet.Especially using and processing video instead of screenshots. I have a desktop and a laptop - it’d be nice if it was possible to offload processing from the laptop to a remote host. Maybe even just use public APIs for those willing to take the privacy risk. Rewind and commercial offerings wouldn’t be so bad if you knew the only dependency was an inference API instead of remote databases and storage.

financetechbro• 2 years ago

I’ve used REM a few times. Can’t keep it running in the background unfortunately because it does crash if the device is under heavy load

jasonjmcghee• 2 years ago

I haven't seen / heard of this happening! Appreciate you mentioning it here. Can you give me an example of the workflow that caused this?

At the least we should just pause recording in this case...

puzanov• 2 years ago

Does MS plan to have such feature in their future versions of Windows?

homarp• 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40540703

prirai• 2 years ago

They give us cure, while they hide our true medicine which is 'ls -1 | xargs cat | grep <search term>'.

hawski• 2 years ago

I know you are joking but why would you ever do that?

You could use all those instead:

  grep -r <pattern>
  grep <pattern> *
  cat * | grep <pattern>

aklemm• 2 years ago

I’ve long thought maybe I wanted something like this, but also quickly rejected every time. It’s fascinating that the idea is having a moment now.

nkko• 2 years ago

How about dedicated external system for this, running on rPi or proxmox instance. On the local macgine app should only record screenshots on major scene change and save them on remote fs where it would go tgrough ocr, indexing, embeddings, whatnot.

Windrecorder – Personal Memory Search Engine

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