screenpipe

Your AI finally knows what you're doing

Productivity

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Artificial Intelligence

Hey! How does it affect the cpu efficiency if running in background? Second thing - how far back does the record go?

This is exciting! As a solo entrepreneur running multiple projects, I keep forgetting things and often don't have time to write every step down. I have to remember to turn on Loom to record videos for contractors I work with. With Screenpipe, I can just focus on doing my tasks well, and the steps will be traced back through insights from continuous recording. It's great that PII is removed and everything is saved on device.

24/7 local recording is brilliant for context retrieval, but storage must be massive. I'm doing similar work tracking research sessions, and my biggest concern is disk I/O becoming a bottleneck when indexing hours of screen data. How does the CLI handle compression and indexing—does it continuously write raw frames, or is there intelligent sampling? And when querying via Claude, are you embedding screen content or just using OCR text?

This hits a real gap. Most debugging tools show you what the code thinks it did, not what actually showed up. We built toran.sh around the same insight for APIs — logs say one thing, the wire shows another. Screen capture is that idea applied one layer up.

How do you handle the privacy side? Screens inevitably show stuff that shouldn't get indexed.

One of my fav software. I use it a lot with opencode and openwork. Very practical.

Any plans to make this more dev focused?

The video is easier to watch on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Yvdh1kP4HlY

My dream use case for this would be a thinking companion. I do a ton of stuff, but don't take enough time to reflect (even though I reflect ~45m a day, it's not deep enough). My dream version of this is something that watched me like this all day, thought about it really deeply, and at some interval, gave me the 3-4 hour version of reflections that were inspired from watching me, as if i went on a hike every single day, but it goes on the hike for me. Deeper changes to product I can make that solve recent problems I've been having, changes to habits that might be especially efficient, ponderings of what my recent conversations might mean for the market opportunity in general I'm working on.

(ps - i have no idea what "score with friends" is and how to get it tf off my profile)

Congrats on the 2nd launch! I’ve been looking at Screenpipe through the lens of a Product Manager—specifically for capturing those raw, unpolished moments during user research sessions. Having a locally searchable record of everything could be a game-changer for synthesis. Since this version focuses more on AI agent integration, how do you see it helping non-technical users (like PMs) to query their recorded context without needing to touch the CLI?

Congrats! Seems cool. How does data privacy work? Recordings etc stay local?