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MeMex gives your Mac a private visual memory. It turns screen activity into an organized timeline of real work moments, then lets you ask plain-English questions and return to matching screen evidence. Daily and weekly reports summarize work you already did, while Pattern Insights spots repeated workflows worth automating. Recordings stay local in a location you control; AI analysis is optional and uses your own provider or compatible local endpoint.
Hi Product Hunt,
I built MeMex because I kept running into the same frustrating moment:
"I know I saw it. I know I worked on it. But where was it, and what exactly did I do?"
Modern work is scattered across browsers, editors, documents, terminals, and chats. Bookmarks only save what we remember to bookmark. Notes only capture what we stop to write down. Screenshot folders quickly become another place we have to search.
MeMex gives your Mac a private visual memory instead.
It turns screen activity into an organized timeline of real work moments, including when they happened, which apps were involved, and what the activity was about. From there, you can:
- Return to a moment without manually organizing screenshots.
- Ask questions such as "What did I fix before shipping?"
- Get answers connected to replayable screen evidence.
- Generate daily and weekly reports from the work already captured.
- Discover repeated work patterns and turn them into reusable AI or agent playbooks.
Privacy was not something I wanted to bolt on later. Recordings are stored locally in a location you control. AI analysis is optional and uses a provider or compatible local model that you configure. Before data is shared for third-party AI analysis, MeMex explains what will be sent and asks for permission.
MeMex is available for macOS as a one-time USD 19.99 purchase.
I would especially love feedback on one question: where do you lose work context most often today?
Thank you for taking a look.
The "AI analysis is optional and uses your own provider or a compatible local endpoint" line is what makes this usable for privacy-sensitive work — the timeline stays local and I decide if anything ever leaves. Two things I would test before leaving it always-on: can I exclude specific apps or windows (a password manager, banking) from being recorded at all, and does the searchable text index live in the same local store, or does querying round-trip to the provider? Trying to gauge whether I can keep it capturing during sensitive work without leaking window contents into an external model.
Tried it for a day and the natural language search worked way better than expected. I asked "show me when I was working on the pricing page" and it pulled up the right window. Local storage is a nice touch.
the local-only storage with optional AI processing is a really thoughtful split, it means you actually own your screen history without locking yourself out of useful analysis. nice to see a tool that respects privacy without gutting the feature set.
tried it for an afternoon and the timeline view feels genuinely useful, scrolling back to find that one design file i lost track of. like that the recordings stay on my machine by default.
How does the search actually work under the hood, does it index OCR text locally or rely on screenshots only when you query?
The timeline view actually made my scattered work day feel coherent, and being able to ask "what was that thing I saw yesterday" in plain English saved me a real hunt through screenshots.
How does the local storage hold up over time, like does it balloon fast on a normal workday and need manual cleanup or does it handle that itself?
This looks genuinely useful. I'm constantly trying to find a tab, file, or random thing i saw earlier and can't remember where it was.
Also really nice that everything stays local. Doessearch still feel fast once you've built up a few months of history?
The "You did the work. But the details? Already gone." message really resonated with me.
I think forgetting context is a much bigger problem than people realize. Turning work history into something searchable feels like a very natural direction.
Congrats and good luck today! 👏
the "recordings stay local, AI analysis is optional and uses your own provider" split is the interesting design decision here. if someone plugs in a remote provider (say a hosted API instead of a local endpoint) to ask a plain-english question, does the relevant screen evidence get sent up to that provider to answer it, or does it stay local and only the extracted text/metadata leaves the machine? for a tool whose whole pitch is private visual memory of everything you do, that's the detail that actually determines whether it's private by default or private-if-you-configure-it-carefully.
Comes in handy when I can't remember which file I had open two hours ago, just ask it in plain English and it pulls up the right window. Love that the recordings stay local by default.
The timeline view is genuinely useful for finding that one thing I worked on last Tuesday without digging through screenshots. Local-only storage is a nice touch too, makes it feel less invasive than other activity trackers I have tried.
About MeMex on Product Hunt
“A private, searchable memory for your Mac”
MeMex was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 28 upvotes and 25 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. MeMex gives your Mac a private visual memory. It turns screen activity into an organized timeline of real work moments, then lets you ask plain-English questions and return to matching screen evidence. Daily and weekly reports summarize work you already did, while Pattern Insights spots repeated workflows worth automating. Recordings stay local in a location you control; AI analysis is optional and uses your own provider or compatible local endpoint.
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