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Memos – An open source Rewinds / Recall

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129 points arkohut | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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arkohut ◴[17 Nov 24 12:59 UTC] No.42163979[source]▶
Memos is a privacy-focused passive recording project. It can automatically record screen content, build intelligent indices, and provide a convenient web interface to retrieve historical records.

This project draws heavily from two other projects: one called Rewind and another called Windows Recall. However, unlike both of them, Memos allows you to have complete control over your data, avoiding the transfer of data to untrusted data centers.

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walterbell ◴[17 Nov 24 16:15 UTC] No.42164954[source]▶
> avoiding the transfer of data to untrusted data centers

In short order, this will create a large corpus of unsecured local data.

Is the user expected to secure the data independently?

Do Recall/Rewind help the user to filter recorded data for retention or deletion?

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arkohut ◴[17 Nov 24 16:25 UTC] No.42165007[source]▶
Rewind and Recall also store similar data locally but maybe not only locally. And Recall/Rewind allow data deletion, they can retain the most recent data based on time.
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1. patrickhogan1 ◴[17 Nov 24 19:31 UTC] No.42166411[source]▶
Rewind and Recall are 2 separate projects and 2 separate installers. I use Rewind and I have several outbound network monitoring apps as well as local disk monitoring apps. Rewind does not send data offsite.

Rewind does glitch sometimes specifically with audio recording which is extremely annoying. You go back to an area where you thought you had audio notes only to find you didn’t - even though you had audio recording turned on the whole time. It has something to do with meeting detection. Which is silly bc disk space is cheap just auto record. I do like the concept of an open source version and I will look into this.