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Black Mirror's "The Entire History of You" S1E03 episode has one take on what would happen if we could effortlessly record -- and replay -- everything. As with most Black Mirrors, there are some dark but believeable ideas.

Incidentally, it was written by Jess Armstrong who later created "Succession".

I recommend "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" by the brilliant Ted Chiang, a short story featuring a related social situation. People in the story use a recorder with highly advanced search and indexing capabilities so it becomes possible to instantly access a video of anywhere you've been, or of any conversation you've had.

counterpoint being "bring up what my husband said 10 months ago". the Devil skips away, contract in hand...

Kapture audio from 2013 kickstarter (not so recent memory) was 4 minutes too short?

https://web.archive.org/web/20140208000114/https://kaptureau...

EDIT: had to share promo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQoSSXKaSQ

but requires an always on and listening device, which people don't really want because it is always abused by the overlords