Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown
Details
- External ID
- 49429095
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 62
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8830645161290323
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
It's a macOS menu bar app that reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API. No screenshots, no video, or OCR. It writes plain markdown, one file per day, into a folder you choose.Point Claude Code (or anything with file access) at the folder and ask "what did I work on Tuesday?" or have it build memory about your projects. The folder contains an AGENTS.md explaining the format to the model.Thought it might be useful for someone so chucked it up on GitHub
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- screen capture as markdown text instead of screenshots
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar utility querying the native Accessibility API (AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue) on a timer and appending text to Markdown files can be vibe-coded in Swift in an afternoon.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Slimsnap.ai (screenshot-based approach), ActivityWatch (focused window tracking), Rem (screenshot + OCR with time-travel search), Appshots (accessibility API text extraction)
Concerns raised: Per-app breakage in text extraction accuracy, Accessibility API not supported in all situations, Loss of visual history and time-travel search features, Lossiness of accessibility tree vs. pixel-based approach, Energy efficiency vs. accessibility API methods
Feature requests: Context-aware dictation integration with local LLM, Swipe to go back in time and visually search history, Fine-tuned vision model for UI reasoning (fully local), Integration with structured data sources (git, Slack, emails, tickets)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 363 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #97 of 364 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 269 days after the earliest competitor.
- Rewisp · ph · 2026-07-19 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Bezel · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Kepter · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ScreenshotPlus · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- MuM · ph · 2026-09-28 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Nivorly - Mac screen recorder · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time · hn · 2026-01-08 · 161 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Screen Index · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- No other launches for this product.
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