Where Was I?
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Where Was I? doesn’t just remember which apps were open. It captures the full context of your work, including browser tabs, screenshots, notes, window positions, project status, and your next step. Everything stays local on your Mac, so you can return hours or days later and quickly understand exactly where you left off.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: personal productivity software · 176 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▲ +11% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
- OpenAI Day
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and local note-taking are easily vibe-coded, but reliably capturing and restoring window arrangements, third-party app states, and multi-browser tabs on macOS requires deep native OS API integration.
What it would actually take: The app requires a native Swift/macOS codebase utilizing the macOS Accessibility API (AXUIElement), CoreGraphics (CGWindowList), and AppleScript/JXA scripting bridges to query and control external applications and browsers. The hardest part is handling macOS permissions, multi-monitor coordinate transforms, and browser-specific session state restoration across unpredictable third-party applications. This requires specialized macOS systems programming and reverse-engineering skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 522 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #457 of 523 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 234 days after the earliest competitor.
- TrailSift · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Snapset · ph · 2026-10-04 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Whereabouts · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- My Saved Places · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Cuewake for Mac · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Trailback for Mac & Windows · ph · 2026-10-10 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TimeBlocks: Work Journal · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- What Happened · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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