New Software Remembers Everything Your Computer Has Ever Displayed (cnn.com)

A Napster co-founder launched a new software this week which lets you search for anything you've ever looked at on your computer. schwit1 shared this report from CNNMoney: Atlas Informatics Founder and CEO Jordan Ritter calls the software "a photographic memory for your digital life"... This includes web pages, emails, Slack chats, Netflix films, Spotify songs, or anything else that's appeared in front of your eyes on your screen... You can search by keyword, content type or time, and it displays all related information based on relevancy. For instance, if two documents were open at the same time and you toggled between them, they will both appear whether or not they contain a keyword. Once installed on your hard drive and browser, Atlas Recall runs in the background and begins collecting your activity. The company captures all the content you've looked at and stores it on its servers.
It's encrypted before transmission to the Atlas Cloud servers, though you can block it from capturing data from certain applications, files, and web sites. "The platform wars are over, nobody won, and no one will ever win them again..." Ritter told CNNMoney. "What we want is something that works the way we use our devices and data."

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Re:Self hosted solution?

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A co-worker of mine actually wrote a piece of software that did this just for himself. His program took a snapshot of the screen about every fifteen seconds and saved it in a delta-compressed format he invented himself, and then archived it away on a large NAS drive sorted by date and time. Then, he could go back and look at exactly what code or project he was working on at any time, almost like a long term video replay. Of course, it was just visual data, so he couldn't search by anything but dates and times.

Personally, my projects' source control (Git or Mercurial) is good enough for the purpose of long-term work archiving, as I don't really care about anything else, like chats or e-mails or random browsing. I have no need to keep a record of my slashdot postings or what porn pics I peek at. And I certainly don't want it recording financial data from my bank, etc.