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New Mac app wants to record everything you do–so you can “rewind” it later

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This is something I wish I had within my browser - I often want to search for a page I've previously encountered but the history search by URL and Title is a little too limiting, often it's a phrase I want to fulltext search in the body (but, of course, it's too vague a search term to usefully google)

There’s a Safari extension for that. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1619241039

Parrot Browser does this (https://www.browserparrot.com/).

I believe Opera used to have this feature, although I think it doesn't anymore since switching the browser engine to Blink.

I thought about this exact product a few years ago. Primarily for when I had to take corporate training - just search for whatever keyword they were quizzing on, and immediately find the relevant video/text, and replay your screen from that point. Ideally I’d like this feature built into the operating system, with the raw/encrypted data just streamed up to the cloud for later search. Corporate legal is of course going to ban this tool as they will demand to limit discoverability to a set period.

Kudos to the developers. Would love to get on the beta.

I am trying Apse.io which appears to be very similar. Will try both side by side.

I think let time machine trace the modification of my documents is useful enough. Also, I am curious how they achieve this kind of data compression.

They could just be comparing the bitrate of raw uncompressed 4K30@10bit to a compressed H.265 stream

They also mention using OCR, so it could be that instead of using a high enough bitrate to read the text they're actually storing the decoded raw text

It also looks from their demo video that they might be recording a video of each window separately, so window position changes wouldn't need to be encoded, and it could be a fairly low rate unless it's hosting video?

Must be using Pied Piper technology...

> I am curious how they achieve this kind of data compression. Probably ML https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13438

I have badly wanted something like this for a while. Unfortunately, not only does it only work on macOS, it only works for ASi, while I'm on 10.14. Lol.

As much as I hate to be "that person" acting disappointed over the lack of a Windows version... Windows is what I'm stuck with ever since my Mac broke.

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