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https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Mac.
https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

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

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# rem



🧠 Remember everything. (very alpha - [download anyway](https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem/releases))



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## 🚨 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)



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### Original Demo



  




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)



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### 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.



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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 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