ScreenMemory for Mac

ScreenMemory records screenshots of your screen(s) at an interval you chose. It then makes this "screen memory" browsable, through a video-like player, and searchable, through a simple textbox.

While some have perfect memory, most don't. Having a simple way to instantly see what you were doing at "roughly lunchtime, last monday" can help you remember or even retrieve things that would have been lost into the void otherwise.

Use cases

• Recap your day — Take 2 minutes before your daily to go through your previous. You'll get a nice overview of that you did, meetings, calls, ad-hoc things you helped with, and what you worked on.
• Who was that person? — I was in a video meeting where someone new was introduced. Days later, I had half forgotten the name of that person. ScreenMemory would allow you to go to that day, and scrub until you find the meeting, and see who it was.
• I've got to log in... again — I was building something, and we have a Figma with references. It was faster to find the reference in ScreenMemorys browser than it would have been to navigate Figma, logging in, finding the page, zoom around. As I had looked at it some day ago, I knew I could simply find it there.
• Which website was that? — Sure there is a history in the browser, but do you remember the title of that page? I don't always, but scrubbing through the "video player" in ScreenMemory, it's easy to catch a glimpse of something you recognize.
• That code I wrote disappeared — I use git, but I was playing around with some code without committing. As I iterated and iterated, something had broken and I wasn't sure why. Going through the past 30 minutes in ScreenMemory, I was able to see the line of code that had been removed by accident. Retrieving the piece of code saved me from trying to re-solve a problem I knew I had already solved just an hour ago.
• How long did I work on that? — As a freelancer, or if you track time in general, you can accurately see out how long you worked on certain things.
• Actually see progress — While building ScreenMemory, I was using it since day one, therefore I have an almost complete history of how the software evolved. How useful this is is subjective, but it is neat nonetheless.