Show HN: Recall Memory – Your Personal Local Time Machine for Mac (recallmemory.app)

8 points by saucow 2y ago ↗ HN

Recall Memory is a free Sandboxed Mac App which let's you scroll through time and allows you to "Recall" what you were doing earlier.

Recall works by capturing the active window every second and only saves screenshots with significant changes. Making it easy to scroll through what you were doing earlier.

All data is processed and always stored locally.

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watersb 2y ago ↗

Sun Solaris (UNIX workstation) desktop environment had this feature somewhere around 2012. Based on ZFS snapshots.

Was based on GNOME, I believe.

saucow 2y ago ↗

That's neat! Just looked it up after you mentioned: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/10/opens...

coldtrait 2y ago ↗

> To begin capturing, open the Recall menu and click Start.

There is no "Start"

saucow 2y ago ↗

> There is no "Start" Thank you for trying out the app. After clicking on Recall in the upper right corner in the menu bar (not the dock) you should see the text "Capture Status" and a button in that row labeled "Start" From here you can control when Recall is enabled and capturing.

coldtrait 2y ago ↗

Sorry, I normally forget about the menu bar because I keep it hidden. I see it and I will try it out.

psovit 2y ago ↗

Looks interesting, not sure when I would need a tool like this though. What are some good use cases for Recall you see in the future?