Open Chronicle
Local Screen Memory for Claude Code and Codex CLI
Details
- External ID
- 47858398
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Open Chronicle
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built an open source version of OpenAI Chronicle.Some design decisions I made:1. Local first: OCR uses Apple Vision, summarization supports local AI providers via Vercel AI SDK. Nothing leaves your computer. 2. Multiple Provider: exposes MCP so any coding agents can use it. 3. Swift menubar app: efficient, low-footprint 4. Blacklist apps: password managers, messaging apps (Slack, WhatsApp, Messenger), mail clients are on default blocklist.Current Limitations: 1. Mac only. Mac-first is a feature. 2. Small local models with weak structured-output support will fail on generateObject. 3. Retrieval is LIKE-query keyword search. FTS and optional embeddings are on the list.Demo video (6s): https://youtu.be/V75tnvIdovcCurious what you think the right balance between exclusionlist allowlists. Happy to answer anything.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- screen memory for claude code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It combines standard macOS screen recording/Apple Vision OCR APIs with local AI summarization and an MCP server, all readily vibe-codeable with modern desktop app templates.
Discussion
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