Windrecorder – Personal Memory Search Engine

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.

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

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>

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.

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

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