wingerlang

Every couple of months, without fail, the chrome extension starts failing. It gets to the point where I see the "current popup style" and just know that I have to ignore it, open the actual 1Password app (and login there), and THEN go back to chrome and open the extension again.

Some periods of time I simply went to copy from the app itself because the extension didn't work.

Been a paid customer for over a decade, and I originally bought it because the apps were so nice and they really did work 100%. The last couple of years have been painful at times though.

Hazel - for file automation

Dropover - Any file you are dragging, just wiggle it and a little shelf shows up where you can put it temporarily

Shottr/Cleanshot - For markup and pinning info on the screen

I also use quite a lot of my own written software

ScreenMemory - It's similar to Rewind/Recall (but without AI), I revisit days before standups and retrospectives

Monkey Notes - Sticky notes that attach to application windows

DevControls - Basically a list of repositories with shortcuts, this is a reimplementation of scripts I used to have in BitBar/xbar/SwiftBar (which in themselves are amazing applications)

I also have a custom fork of the much recommended Rectangle with some more mouse driven interactions that I've been using for almost two years.

I use an app like this that I built myself. It's great to recap yesterdays work for a standup, or the previous month for a retro. Those are my most regular usages of it, but every now and then I am able to use it to recall something I definitely forgot about ("who was that guy in the meeting" or "which slack channel was that again").

There shouldn't be much coping considering that Rewind has been a thing for a long time and is already a giant.

I also work on a similar app (AI-less, though) and my initial though was, nice, more eyes on this sort of apps, I might get some additional sales as a result.

Very nice. The section "A word about math" really is important. I am admittedly not good at math, but I was able to build a VERY (extremely, even) rudimentary physics simulation many years ago by really really simplifying the math concepts. I was essentially iterating on the building blocks, points, lines, etc. With a lot of small steps and a lot of visual debugging lines, it ended up extremely janky and slow, but it did kinda work!

If you still want something to look back at your usage, I am making https://screenmemory.app which is sort of like Rewind, except without AI (only text search) and a nicer timeline.

This is what I added to my macOS app recently, foreground app metadata. It is displayed on the timeline if you look at the pictures on my website (screenmemory.app). For my use case it was night and day in UX.

I can't speak for the mentioned app (rem), but I built my own app with a similar feature set called ScreenMemory (https://screenmemory.app). Which I have obviously used for an extended period of time (coming up on 7 months I believe).

My main and daily use case it to look back at the previous day - this is helpful for standups, retros, and so on. I skim through my days (sometimes weeks) to pick up on what I was working on - it's incredible how much "untracked" work is performed that you pick up on. Sometimes I forget who exactly I talked to about something, but just knowing the rough date I can usually find something to jog my memory.

Obviously I am biased, but still!

One alternative is ScreenMemory (https://screenmemory.app)

I made it, for full disclosure.

I skimmed the first 25 results and I saw nothing. No results on indiehackers.com either.

Fake it until you make it is a thing, I know. But still..

How come the data was so hard to find? I'd imagine Ferrari of all cars would have had multiple sets of fully fleshed out data. I know nothing of cars though, so maybe this is uncommon.

Is there a possibility that you've even missed one or more cars in this compilation?

Are the 'as seen on' plain fake? As seen on TikTok, but 'satellitor' or 'satellitor.com' doesn't have any results as far as I can see.

Not once have I thought that JPEG XL would result in larger images.

Why would you lose 25% of the take home pay?

In my experience Slack becomes buckets within buckets, so I still rely on the 'feed' - i.e. the 'threads' aggregator to find which one of the dozen sub-buckets are actually discussing X and Y.

Not to mention the infinite buckets with similar topics and names.

If I may do some advertising, I specifically disliked the timeline in Rewind.ai so much so that I built my own application https://screenmemory.app. In fact the timeline is what I work on the most and have the most plans for.

macOS: https://screenmemory.app/

This is my application, it does not have AI running on top.

It cleans it in terms of identifying large files, duplicate files/images, shows you caches for apps, uninstaller, which apps and files are old and never/rarely used. And so on. It's more of a convenience tool than anything. Don't recall other features.

I think there is a certain type of company that go for fairly generic(named) software with a lot of SEO and marketing to be able to earn a lot of money. I guess there is a venn diagram of malware creators where this applies too but I don't think they are.

They are also the developers behind SetApp. I mean, that's a pretty mainstream/famous app(store?) so they collaborate directly with loads of developers/companies to distribute their apps in SetApp. If that counts for something.

In practice it's more of a software discovery email, with the added bonus of knowing that they are being worked on actively, and finding out what sort of things they are working on at the same time. It's not really about "bug fixes and improvements" and I trim those out if I have time.

I don't think that's weird, I enjoy those as well. So much so that I have a newsletter where I post changelogs of various apps that had updates in the past week (https://buttondown.email/appsandupdates). Adding apps is a slow process but I'm starting to see quite a bit of repeated apps so I'll have to speed it up.

My lowtech solution was to make a function with an array of hardcoded paths, it would then present a menu where you could select 0-N and it would jump. It also started with Terminal.

Yes, that makes more sense.

I do it locally on my laptop where I develop, for small personal projects like this I wouldn't go through the pain of a CI/CD system.

What are some apps with basic functionality where you could not find a free alternative on macOS? In my experience there is always a free alternative.

Highly recommend making a simple script to do this, I distribute two apps manually and all I have to do is to kick off "./distribute.sh 1.2.3" which does every step required.

> In EU there are many price comparison engines with millions or billions of products. I don't know how popular they are.

Anecdotally, I guess, I'd say extremely popular. I never search for products anywhere else.

Thanks, I really should add that.

It's not recurring but my most recent macOS app ScreenMemory [0] passed that (and more) recently without much marketing. I posted on some subreddits and on my small twitter following.

It's an app that takes screenshots of your screen continuously, and lets you explore it on a timeline, as well as search text on the screen.

It's a new-old idea for me. In 2015 [1] I wrote a script that did this, without a GUI. In recent times Rewind.ai started getting hype, which I guess reminded me of it. Earlier this year I saw an open source app, which seemed to vanish. Another app I tried, I just didn't like (can't remember the name). And finally, there existed a very barebones similar app (TimeSnapper) which has been around for ages, but doesn't have much feature wise, my MVP had the same base features, and I felt as if I was only getting started at that point.

I figured I could fill some void between all of this and so far people have given me good feedback.

[0] https://screenmemory.app/ [1] https://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/15/automating-screenshots...

It's a well made app from an underdog, versus a good app from big bad reddit.

In my experience, based on reading complaints about the app, is that many use it for 5 minutes on the default settings and claim it is the worst app ever made.

Uncanney valley probably comes from the sounds either being speech or complete 100% silence, dead space being cut out. I think it is understandable and clearly not a robot though.