ReMind

ReMind goes after a specific, defensible problem: your Mac sees almost everything you do, and none of it is retrievable afterward. The app takes screenshots, captures text snippets, and tracks app usage, then indexes the lot into a timeline you can question in plain English. The example the project itself surfaces — "do you remember where I placed my meeting notes from yesterday's Google Meet?" — is exactly the kind of question no file search can answer, because the answer lived in a window you closed. The architecture is the selling point. Processing happens on-device through Apple Core ML and local LLMs, so capture and search work with no internet connection at all. For anyone who objected to Microsoft Recall on principle, that is the difference between a tool you can defend to your security team and one you can't. It is written in Swift and open source, which means the capture logic is auditable — you can verify what it does with your screen history instead of trusting a privacy page. Where it falls short is maturity. This is an early public beta; expect rough edges, and expect installation to mean building from source or side-loading rather than downloading and double-clicking. The roadmap items the project has discussed — on-device vision via phi-3-vision and configurable capture prompts — are not shipped capability, so capture behavior today is less configurable than community members have asked for. There is no cross-machine sync or shared memory, which rules out team use entirely. Fit it to the person, not the category. A developer or researcher on macOS who wants a local record of their own activity and is comfortable with a Swift repo will get real value here. A non-technical knowledge worker who wants one-click setup should look at Microsoft Recall, and someone whose actual need is writing and retrieving notes should use a notes app with plugins rather than a screen-capture tool. ReMind trades polish for sovereignty, deliberately.