roblg/rem

An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Apple Silicon.

rem

🧠 Remember everything. (very alpha)

Original Demo

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.

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Please log any bugs / issues you find!

Working on getting an Apple Development account for official distribution...

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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.

This is crazy alpha version

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.

Build it yourself

• Open project in Xcode
• Clone https://github.com/stephencelis/SQLite.swift and add it to the project
• Product > Archive
• Distribute App
• Custom
• Copy App

Getting Started

• 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.
• 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)

Current supports:

• 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

Things I'd love to add:

• Natural language search / agent interaction via updating local vector embedding
  • I've also been exploring novel approaches to vector dbs
• Multi-monitor support

Contributors ✨

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FAQ

• Where is my data?
  • ~/Library/Application\ Support/today.jason.rem/

XCode + copy / paste from history:

Screen.Recording.2023-12-27.at.8.38.07.PM.mov