[HN Gopher] Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
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Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
Author : mxstbr
Score : 127 points
Date : 2022-11-01 14:34 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| danielovichdk wrote:
| I would rather have everything deleted by default. But with an
| option to opt in for saving things locally.
| timfrietas wrote:
| I've been a beta tester for a few weeks now. And as a Search and
| Discovery person I have plenty of granular feedback and feature
| requests for Dan, Brett and team that I still owe :)
|
| Overall it has helped me in a couple situations. I will say when
| I was onboarded I don't believe audio was mentioned and a quick
| search for things I know I said in Zoom recently comes up empty--
| perhaps that functionality is new?
|
| For now, I've found that I haven't yet hit the equilibrium point
| where I've forgotten something badly enough to replace my
| instinct to use Spotlight, browse Finder, or even search Google
| Drive ( _shudders_ ). The Fitness app on iOS needs 180 days of
| data before it shows you trends; I feel like Rewind is similar in
| that I need a critical mass of data and time before I truly don't
| know where to look and go to Rewind first. Audio support would
| greatly reduce that window, however, so maybe I am missing out.
|
| Overall I definitely recommend trying it out, however!
| theropost wrote:
| I've started some work on a similar project as well on Windows.
| We should be able to fully query our lives, and we should also be
| guaranteed that data is ours. I believe this is where data
| collection should go - your data is yours, and you own it. All
| the data that Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, etc collect on us,
| yet we have such limited access to it. This should be ours, and
| ours to analyse, search, and gain insights on in any way we wish.
| This should really be an open-source, community project as well -
| tools, analytics, apps, all made to help you be a better version
| of yourself.
| iLoveOncall wrote:
| How much is it gonna cost? It better not be free because that
| would be a total deal breaker for me.
|
| In any case, I may be wrong, but I don't think anyone's gonna
| install that on their computer.
| jsf01 wrote:
| The problem I have with this is that meetings and discussions--
| exactly the kind of thing you would want to recall--involve more
| parties than just yourself. But rewind appears designed to record
| everything in the background and be left on, not enabled manually
| when you want it. That means in every conversation you have
| you're either going to need to get consent to record (which is
| super weird for 90% of quick chats) or just do it without consent
| which is creepy and probably illegal in a lot of places.
| fredsters_s wrote:
| been using the beta - really love it
| photochemsyn wrote:
| I think a better title would include <Digitized> before <Life>.
|
| The problem with relying too much on things like photos to recall
| your memories of previous events is that typically the photos
| overwrite the actual memories, i.e. you lose your built-in record
| of sensory impressions of events.
|
| Used sparingly, it's probably okay, but working on improving your
| built-in memory is also a good idea (i.e. the whole memory palace
| approach).
|
| This kind of thing could be a great aid for early-stage
| Alzheimer's patients, however.
|
| As far as being used for mass surveillance and social control by
| authoritarian states bent on managing their captive populations
| in some dystopian social-credit-scored plantation-labor system,
| well, I imagine the NSA's DARPA-sourced 'Total Information
| Awareness" programs are well ahead of anything seen in public by
| now.
| [deleted]
| Toine wrote:
| Feels great to see ambitious products like these pop up every now
| and then. I feel like there are too many boring startups
| nowadays. Yes, there's a big brother feel to it, but I believe
| it's a feature, not a bug. Otherwise it might not be innovative
| enough...
|
| Edit : do you hire EU citizens ? :)
|
| Edit edit : most of the world doesn't use macOS : what's your
| long-term vision for non Apple silicon users ? On smartphones ?
| Any plan on a hardware product that literally records everything
| you say ?
| onnnon wrote:
| IMO, this only accelerates the problem of memory loss. The
| phenomenon is known as "digital dementia" or "digital amnesia".
| If you want to strengthen your memory, use less technology to
| remember things for you. If you already have memory problems, and
| need aid, I can see this being useful.
| nunez wrote:
| Strong disagree.
|
| I've started keeping a mood journal after a mood swing caused a
| very negative incident last year. It's been absolutely
| indispensable.
|
| I could have used "less tech" and kept it in notebooks, but (a)
| handwriting is time-consuming, (b) handwriting a lot is
| fatiguing, and (c) I could lose the notebooks (like I lost the
| diary I kept when I was younger or the notes I exchanged with
| my first girlfriend that went into detail about what I did that
| day, both of which I wish I had back).
|
| Using an app to keep this journal has made it really easy to
| correlate my mood to external events. Since my mood is strongly
| correlated to the amount of sleep I get, I can't wait to stitch
| my sleep and calorie consumption data from Health with my mood
| journal entries.
|
| Ironically, the journal has helped me remember things I would
| have long forgotten!
| anonymouse008 wrote:
| I don't know if this is in your blog anywhere because I have
| not checked yet, but what are you using for your journal app
| or software needs now? Do you feel the CBT helpers found in
| many popular apps are necessary?
| onnnon wrote:
| I don't see the connection between creating a journal/diary
| and this app.
| giuliomagnifico wrote:
| Looks nice if the privacy is respected, but I wonder how much
| space can -for example- one week of "usage" takes?
| singhshashi wrote:
| Congratulations on the launch! Looks fantastic! I have built a
| product https://gettrici.com that records your screen and stores
| the recordings locally as well. As a developer, watching a quick
| replay of my recording helps me recover my lost train of thought
| very very fast and saves me a ton of time. [ Show HN Post:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29277671 ]
|
| Its great that you have leveraged the power of Apple Silicon to
| analzye and index the recordings as well as keeping the size of
| the recordings very very small. Do you see this becoming
| available for Intel Chipsets a.k.a Windows and Linux anytime
| soon?
| brandrick wrote:
| Love the look of this. Looking forward to giving it a try.
| 0x445442 wrote:
| https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
| dsiroker wrote:
| I'm Dan, co-founder & CEO of Rewind.
|
| I am eternally grateful to Hacker News for helping me launch my
| first startup, Optimizely (YC W10), so I'm back here to launch my
| second one: Rewind.
|
| Rewind is the search engine for your life. Check it out:
| https://www.rewind.ai
|
| It's a macOS app that enables you to find anything you've seen,
| said, or heard.
|
| We're also announcing that we've raised $10m at a $75m valuation
| led by Andreessen Horowitz.
|
| In case you are curious, the inspiration for Rewind came from an
| unlikely place:
|
| _Our founding story_
|
| I started to go deaf in my 20s. When I turned 30, a hearing aid
| changed my life. To lose a sense and gain it back again felt like
| gaining a superpower. Ever since that moment, I've been on a hunt
| for ways technology can augment human capabilities and give us
| superpowers.
|
| That hunt ultimately led me to memory. Studies show that 90% of
| memories are forgotten after a week. Just like our hearing, our
| memory gets worse as we get older. But does it have to? If we
| have hearing aids for hearing and glasses for vision, what's the
| equivalent for memory?
|
| What if we could use technology to augment our memory the same
| way a hearing aid can augment our hearing? This question is why
| we founded Rewind. Our vision is to give humans perfect memory.
|
| _Introducing Rewind_
|
| Here's how it works:
|
| 1. Local and Private By Design: We record anything you've seen,
| said, or heard and make it searchable. For your privacy, we store
| all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access
| to them. Learn more:
| <https://help.rewind.ai/en/collections/3616305-privacy>
|
| 2. Mind-Boggling Compression: Storing all the recordings locally
| means compression is very important. We compress raw recording
| data up to 3,750x times without major loss of quality. For
| example, 10.5GB of raw recording data becomes 2.8MB. That means
| that even with the smallest hard drive you can buy from Apple
| today, you can store years of recordings.
|
| 3. No Cloud Integration or IT Required: In order to enable you to
| search for anything you've seen, we use native macOS APIs and
| Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to recognize & index all the
| words that appear on your screen. This means you don't need to
| integrate with cloud products like Gmail, Dropbox, or Slack.
| Rewind starts capturing these apps right away, with no IT
| required. Also, OCR enables you to copy & paste anything from
| your past.
|
| 4. Meetings: In order to enable you to search for anything you've
| said or heard, we use state-of-the-art Automated Speech
| Recognition (ASR). This is particularly useful for meetings,
| where the content of discussions, debates, and decisions are
| often lost forever as soon as a meeting is over. With Rewind, you
| never have to worry about losing this content again. Rewind can
| capture the content of meetings, including everything that is
| said and everything that is shared visually. All of the content
| is searchable. You can go back to the exact moment in a meeting
| you are looking for by simply searching for a word that was said
| or a word that appeared on your screen. Learn more:
| <https://help.rewind.ai/en/articles/6526620-recording-meeting>
|
| 5. Unleashes Apple Silicon: The key enabling technology that
| makes Rewind possible is Apple Silicon. We utilize virtually
| every part of the System on a Chip (SoC) so that running Rewind
| doesn't tax system resources (like CPU and memory) while it is
| recording. It feels virtually imperceptible.
|
| Rewind is just the first step toward our vision of giving humans
| perfect memory.
|
| Please share any and all feedback you might have! We're all ears
| spullara wrote:
| FYI, recording someone without telling them in California is
| illegal so be careful with this when you are talking to people.
| edm0nd wrote:
| Everything normal and fun is illegal in California.
| dsiroker wrote:
| Before you record someone you should always ask for their
| consent. This is especially important with Rewind, since the
| recording happens on your Mac and other meeting participants
| won't know they are being recorded unless you inform them.
|
| _How should I ask for consent?_
|
| Here is how we recommend you ask for consent:
|
| "This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I
| don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I use
| Rewind to record and transcribe the meeting? For our privacy,
| all data is stored securely on my Mac and not in the cloud."
|
| In addition to saying this verbally, we recommend including
| this message in your calendar invites so people have a chance
| to think about it ahead of time. Feel free to link to this
| help center article as well.
|
| _What are the laws around consent?_
|
| The laws pertaining to recording other people depend on where
| the people being recorded live.
|
| While the laws differ from state to state, we believe privacy
| is so important that we recommend users of our product hold
| themselves accountable to a much higher standard than the
| bare legal minimum. _We believe all users of our product
| should proactively seek consent from everyone they record
| even if they are not legally obligated to do so._ Not only is
| this is the safest approach legally, but it is also just the
| right thing to do.
| codingdave wrote:
| So you are asking people to give mini marketing pitches for
| your product in the course of normal conversation and
| include the pitch in emails invites?
|
| You aren't asking people to be conscious of privacy, you
| are asking people to be a free marketing platform.
| dsiroker wrote:
| If you are more comfortable removing the word Rewind and
| changing:
|
| "This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I
| don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I
| use Rewind to record and transcribe the meeting? For our
| privacy, all data is stored securely on my Mac and not in
| the cloud."
|
| to
|
| "This meeting is important to me so I want to make sure I
| don't forget what we discussed. Is it ok with you if I
| record and transcribe the meeting? For our privacy, all
| data is stored securely on my Mac and not in the cloud."
|
| by all means go ahead.
| codingdave wrote:
| The common way I hear it, every day, is: "Anyone mind if
| I record?"
| jabthedang wrote:
| rrwo wrote:
| > We record anything you've seen, said, or heard and make it
| searchable. For your privacy, we store all of the recordings
| locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them
|
| Until an unauthorized person gains access to your computer.
|
| I'm assuming there is some sort of encryption, but if the
| software can transparently decrypt the data to access it, then
| what is to prevent someone stealing the key from the software?
|
| How is this affected by wiretap and privacy laws, where you
| would need the consent of other people in the room?
|
| At home, I certainly don't want something recording every
| sound.
|
| Even at work, I don't want everything recorded. Sometimes
| people need to communicate freely and discretely, e.g. your
| manager says to you like "Don't prioritize the CEOs request.
| It's a bad idea and won't go anywhere. If he asks you, we're
| working on it. I'll deal with the fallout later."
| dsiroker wrote:
| > I'm assuming there is some sort of encryption, but if the
| software can transparently decrypt the data to access it,
| then what is to prevent someone stealing the key from the
| software?
|
| You are right that if someone compromises your physical
| computer and knows your local Mac user account password then
| encryption won't help.
|
| > How is this affected by wiretap and privacy laws, where you
| would need the consent of other people in the room?
|
| While the laws differ from state to state, we believe privacy
| is so important that we recommend users of our product hold
| themselves accountable to a much higher standard than the
| bare legal minimum. We believe all users of our product
| should proactively seek consent from everyone they record
| even if they are not legally obligated to do so. Not only is
| this is the safest approach legally, but it is also just the
| right thing to do.
|
| > At home, I certainly don't want something recording every
| sound.
|
| We don't record every sound. We prompt you to record audio
| each time a new Zoom meeting starts. You can choose to record
| or not to record. You can also pause at any time and delete
| anything retroactively.
| parthianshotgun wrote:
| Have you ever read Ted Chiang's 'The Truth of Fact, the Truth
| of Feeling'? What if forgetting is a part of forgiveness or
| healing? Eidetic memory seems fraught to me, but I'd love to
| know your thoughts on this.
| fragmede wrote:
| Personally/imho/since you asked/nitpicks - point 2 and 5 are
| overly technical. For 2, it's a really great thing that the
| data compresses down, but my local machine has enough space
| that I don't think about local storage because I've not run out
| of space. (yet, on my M1 macbook air.) I'd lead with "you can
| store _years_ of recordings on the smallest hard drive apple
| sells ". Maybe mention how awesome your compression is as
| enabling technology.
|
| For 5, start with "It feels virtually imperceptible." rather
| than end with that, and don't define/use SoC. Maybe something
| like "Unleashes Apple Silicon: Thanks to the advancements with
| Apple Silicon, the overhead of Rewind is virtually
| imperceptible by utilizing every part of the chip including the
| Media Engine."
|
| Really intrigued by the product and hope I can try it soon!
| Hadriel wrote:
| Hi Dan, curious if you guys might be looking for a product
| person for the team in the future.
| DeathArrow wrote:
| I have two questions:
|
| 1. You claim that the user data is stored locally, that no data
| is sent to the cloud but audio is sent to a cloud transcription
| service. How do you reconcile these things?
|
| 2. What languages does the app support?
|
| Thank you.
| mritchie712 wrote:
| Dan! Can't find the tweet (bc I didn't have rewind yet), but
| Patrick Collison described this exact product in a tweet once.
| Amazing work. There's a mic drop moment in the demo when you're
| able to click on the link shared in the zoom, totally sold me.
|
| If you could bump me on the invite list (mike@luabase.com),
| would truly appreciate it. I'm a good beta user, promise.
| dsiroker wrote:
| > Patrick Collison described this exact product in a tweet
| once
|
| Yes! Here's the tweet you are referring to:
| https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/953011978217205760
|
| And his more recent reaction to our product:
| https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1587450179069743104
|
| > Amazing work. There's a mic drop moment in the demo when
| you're able to click on the link shared in the zoom, totally
| sold me.
|
| Thank you! Flattered. :)
|
| > If you could bump me on the invite list
|
| Absolutely! I'll move you up the wait list.
| edm0nd wrote:
| Since a16z is involved, it seems you are gunna look for a buyer
| and then peace out.
|
| What companies do you think would be interested in purchasing
| Rewind and why?
|
| Why focus on Macs when the majority of the world uses Windows?
| mlajtos wrote:
| The compression rate seems like a magic. Surprised nobody talks
| about that point...
|
| Signed up for the beta. Really curious about it.
| tough wrote:
| I think they must be using similar AI / ML stuff to this recent
| work for audio https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13438 but for video
| singhshashi wrote:
| Agreed. The compression seems pretty impressive.
| staticfish wrote:
| I believe it's because they are using middle-out compression.
| mxuribe wrote:
| Well, if things don't work out in this use-case, there's always
| an opportunity to greatly evolve the tech industry with your
| compression. That resultant comprssion size sounds crazy amazing!
| Kudos to you and your team for your launch!
| justinlloyd wrote:
| Interesting product. I will take a wait and see approach though
| because my trust of companies pinky promising not to upload my
| data, especially when dealing with such invasive data as camera
| and audio and screen recordings, has been wearing thin of late.
|
| I've been recording my desktop on Mac, Windows and Linux,
| recording audio in my office, including transcription of the
| audio, and multiple camera capture for over a decade since early
| 2000's, and using a SenseCam-like device, on-and-off, for almost
| 20 years. My current setup of an NVidia Jetson does an admirable
| job of determining if one or more people are in the room, the
| activity they are engaged in, multiple camera angles,
| transcribing what is being said, music identification, desktop
| image capture and OCR of the images is very much kept locally and
| I can be assured nothing is leaking out without my explicit
| knowledge. I have a custom device on my desk that I built that
| can "pause the recording" or "forget the last 30 seconds" or
| "forget the last five minutes" for those events that probably
| shouldn't be captured, e.g. I'm picking my nose and carefully
| inspecting whatever was retrieved.
| v8xi wrote:
| Wow - would love to hear more about the hardware/software stack
| you're using to perform all this. And how do you go about it
| when away from the office?
| [deleted]
| flyingsky wrote:
| Looks interesting but also seems kinda creepy
| dsiroker wrote:
| Totally understand how it might feel that way initially. Rewind
| is built privacy first. Unlike other cloud-based products, all
| of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac. It's not
| accessible to others (or to us as employees).
|
| Not only that, but we have the following features focused on
| privacy:
|
| 1. Full control: users can pause and delete recordings at any
| time
|
| 2. Exclude apps: users can exclude specific apps they don't
| want recorded (e.g. Signal or 1Password)
|
| 3. Incognito: by default, we don't record Chrome Incognito or
| Safari private browsing windows
|
| We have a long roadmap of things we have planned to further our
| commitment to privacy. Anything in particular you'd love to see
| us implement that might make you feel more comfortable?
| lkbm wrote:
| These are valuable and important, and perhaps the best that
| can be done, but this also reminds me of when Google Glass
| was first announced. People did not like the idea that the
| person you're talking to could be surreptitiously recording
| or photographing you. Similarly, people hate that Facebook
| may have a face recognition fingerprint for your face even if
| you don't use Facebook.
|
| Recording meetings for later searching still feels weird in a
| similar sense. Even if I trust the way my data is handled
| when I use it, it's a violation of privacy norms in a way
| that feel "creepy" to be making a persistent record of things
| other people said to me in what is traditionally an ephemeral
| context.
|
| (That said, this sounds like something I've occasionally
| wanted for a long time.)
| visarga wrote:
| Meetings might be touchy but just recording the web browser
| and having the ability to search the full text would be
| wonderful.
|
| I'd like two AI toys on top of it - embedding similarity
| search and question answering. The AI part can be executed
| easily with HuggingFace. There is a great QA model (FLAN)
| trained with multiple tasks, it can sort of do what GPT-3
| does but locally, the private & cheap option.
| iamthirsty wrote:
| > all of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac
|
| Actors can easily access data on a local machine, with the
| necessary tools and desire. Still seems like something that
| could be accessed and abused.
| Ruq wrote:
| That could be said of anything one does with a computer.
| The point is that if it's stored locally YOU have
| responsiblity over it, rather than trusting to some other
| party to hopefully protect it (and not sell it or expose it
| or what-have-you).
| iamthirsty wrote:
| True, but this is a specific record. Someone could access
| your machine once and have a record of everything you've
| done.
| igammarays wrote:
| Looks like this idea was inspired by a Show HN that appeared last
| year [1]. Seems the original inventor of the concept didn't even
| realize what it could become, or didn't have the funding to make
| it happen.
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965979
|
| Also, I called it out that time, I knew this was going to be
| huge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965979#27970968
| yewenjie wrote:
| Given that OpenAI Whisper is open source now, and pretty near
| SOTA, I think creating an audio only open-source version of this
| shouldn't be difficult. However, I don't know how to easily
| contextualise the audio - how would I search 'name of the movie I
| was discussing with Zeynep last week'?
| dsiroker wrote:
| I got OpenAI Whisper running locally on my Mac but the plumbing
| to make it NOT tax system resources (like CPU) and to get it to
| work with search isn't trivial. It's on our roadmap.
| ggerganov wrote:
| You might find my inference implementation of Whisper useful
| [0]. It has a C-style API that allows for easy integration in
| other projects and you can control how many CPU threads to be
| used during the processing.
|
| [0] https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
| thundergolfer wrote:
| Yes it does seem within reach. Even just the base-en whisper
| modal with 74M params performs remarkably well on transcription
| (the large model has 1550M params!).
|
| Compare a base-en whisper transcription to a human
| transcription. This is the _A Powerful Theory of Why the Far
| Right Is Thriving Across the Globe_ latest episode of the Ezra
| Klein Show, transcribed just now:
|
| 1. [whisper] https://modal-labs-whisper-pod-transcriber-
| fastapi-app.modal...
|
| 2. [human] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opinion/ezra-
| klein-podcas...
|
| (You can use the same app to transcribe other episodes on-
| demand and see the base-en model's quality)
| newaccount2021 wrote:
| onnnon wrote:
| Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420094
| [deleted]
| pvg wrote:
| It's an HN-dupe only if there's been significant discussion
| onnnon wrote:
| Gotcha, thanks!
| [deleted]
| doganugurlu wrote:
| Great concept! Love the time machine inspired UI for rewinding.
| And super-curious about the compression. My guess is it's by
| saving diffs/incremental changes to the screenshots using
| Computer Vision.
| thundergolfer wrote:
| This looks awesome. _The Entire History of You_ is my favorite
| Black Mirror episode and yet I still want this personal search
| functionality and much more.
| shubhamjain wrote:
| Claim: For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally
| on your Mac. Only you have access to them.
|
| From the docs:
|
| > Video data is never sent off your Mac. The only data sent to a
| cloud service is the audio. We send it to a cloud transcription
| service in order to generate a transcript of what was said. This
| transcript is created so you can read it and search for specific
| words that were said. [1]
|
| Yeah, we only "store locally", but hey, that doesn't stop us from
| sending it to a third party service for transcription. I was
| already uncomfortable with the idea of being voice recorded.
| Reading between the lines of how it works doesn't inspire a ton
| of confidence.
|
| [1]: https://help.rewind.ai/en/articles/6526620-recording-
| meeting...
| dsiroker wrote:
| The reason we wrote that article is to be 100% transparent
| about what happens to your data. No reading between the lines
| necessary.
|
| The only time this cloud-based transcription is used is during
| a Zoom meeting, which is already in the cloud.
|
| When you join a new Zoom Meeting we prompt you to ask if you
| want to record & transcribe the audio. You can choose to do
| this selectively for each meeting, or not record & transcribe
| any of them if you aren't comfortable with cloud-based
| transcription.
|
| That said, we do plan to move away from cloud-based
| transcription, likely with Whisper from OpenAI.
| kkfx wrote:
| The "memex" in various form is a classic idea many tried to
| implement with the best tech of the moment, BUT there is a
| big BUT: I can't trust modern hw, full of closed source
| gazillion of SLoC firmwares, with networking capabilities and
| normally connected everywhere. Similarly I can't trust a
| third party closed source OS or EVEN a FLOSS one not
| developed by a vast community but by few big entities
| centered in a country (no matter witch, mine included).
|
| In the modern world even the most genuine and honest people
| can't be trusted on black boxes so such kind of memex while
| wonderful and potentially useful have a so big safety trade
| off that's a no-go for me... Personally I do not even live my
| smartphone near me at home since I consider it a macro-spy
| tool operated by someone else. I can't do much for in-car
| stuff since I need cars and can't live on historic one for
| mere comfort. But more than that is beyond personal Overton
| window of acceptability...
|
| Anyway, that's a very nice implementation of a very nice
| idea.
| shubhamjain wrote:
| It would help to tweak the marketing a bit around recording
| "everything you say." Is the mic always on? Is it always
| recording in the background? Is it just for Zoom/Video Conf
| meetings? Because the first impression I get is that of a
| scary Black Mirror episode.
| dsiroker wrote:
| You are right, it's a bit too aspirational right now. The
| "everything you say" part is just for Zoom meetings right
| now. Once we implement local transcription with OpenAI
| Whisper then I think it makes sense to expand beyond
| meetings to things like YouTube videos, Podcasts,
| Audiobooks, or anything else you might want to search by
| "what you've heard".
| allanrbo wrote:
| Yea my first impression when reading the landing page was
| also that this is exactly a Black Mirror episode: "The
| Entire History of You":
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/
| [deleted]
| squokko wrote:
| Then don't use it
| DeathArrow wrote:
| Why Mac only?
| dsiroker wrote:
| The key enabling technology that makes Rewind possible is Apple
| Silicon [0]. We utilize virtually every part of the System on a
| Chip (SoC) so that running Rewind doesn't tax system resources
| (like CPU and memory) while it is recording. _It feels
| virtually imperceptible._
|
| [0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/
| anonymouse008 wrote:
| I would love a better understanding of this... while I have a
| an appreciation for metal and the frameworks offered I'm
| confused how low level you can go when A-Linux had such
| issues getting going - abs further, the API's natively
| available could actually be private? (Which would make sense
| why it would only work on Mac and not iOS as bypassing the
| App Store as possible)
|
| Still a damn noble aim, good luck!!
| 8en wrote:
| I really admire the ambition of this product. I've noticed how
| much I use the internet as a "second brain". Being able to
| quickly get back to things would improve my life.
|
| The UI also looks very good for a first version. Excited to give
| this a try!
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Kinda getting As We May Think vibes from this one.
| mcast wrote:
| Side note the landing page with it's hard gradients and shadows
| looks like something from the late 2000s when you would buy Mac
| apps without the App Store
| PStamatiou wrote:
| That was me. The site definitely has some areas I need to
| refine, but I'm bringing some gradients and shadows back. We've
| lived in a flat world for far too long.
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| What's with the trend of mac only desktop software?
| cshintov wrote:
| Great stuff! Wish you guys all the best! :)
| paxys wrote:
| Demo looks cool, but a random startup recording everything I do
| on my computer, uploading it to the cloud and running OCR on it?
| No thanks.
| dsiroker wrote:
| We don't upload the recordings to the cloud.
|
| All OCR is done locally on your Mac.
| [deleted]
| cmoog wrote:
| Not to be a FOSS-thumping loser, but an a16z backed company that
| records anything and everything on your screen sounds like a
| recipe for disaster. May as well set the countdown for the bait-
| and-switch.
|
| Looks like a cool demo with neat tech though. Maybe someone will
| reimplement as OSS?
| [deleted]
| gardenfelder wrote:
| This seems pretty cool. There's an OSS platform [1] which is
| nowhere near as powerful, but on the same path
|
| [1] https://memex.garden/
| skyfaller wrote:
| It appears to no longer be open source:
| https://community.memex.garden/t/is-memex-going-closed-sourc...
| gardenfelder wrote:
| Indeed! It's going "source available" (non-commercial only)
| and the cloud synch is closed. Sad.
| stoicjumbotron wrote:
| I honestly don't think this is in the same realm
|
| This is more akin to Raindrop or a bookmarking addon with notes
| and folder structure built int
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