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A FOSS alternative to Rewind that works on both MacOS and Linux would be a dream come true tbh. Thanks for working on this, I'll be trying it out sometime next week

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I took a crack at this, but had trouble building a community. It's all open source.

Native MacOS in swift (the popular one with OCR / text selection from history), and cross platform (rust) without text selection from history and very much POC.

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/xrem

If you don’t mind discussing it; what kind of community were you looking for/what challenges did you face building one?

The repo looks like it has quite a few stars and a smattering of issues which I thought meant real usage.

Not at all - I meant more on the contribution / builder community of - oh I want this feature, I'll build it and submit a PR! (kind of thing).

It's not quite there yet, this is just a POC and there's lots to win in efficiency.

I think it should be done in Swift tbh to get battery impact under 10%

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