> avoiding the transfer of data to untrusted data centers

In short order, this will create a large corpus of unsecured local data.

Is the user expected to secure the data independently?

Do Recall/Rewind help the user to filter recorded data for retention or deletion?

Herein lies the paradox: I want a tool that helps me record more information, but I don’t want this information to be easily exposed to others or used as evidence against me for things I’ve done. Yet, there are moments when I genuinely need to share this information—to prove what I have or haven’t done. The critical bottom line, however, is that the records must remain untampered. If I could alter them at will, their value and meaning would be entirely lost.

I really wonder how much of an issue this sort of thing is, is people out there actively thinking they are going to get caught? For what? Like Eric Schmitt said once, if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide.

I’m personally fascinated by this sort of reactions.

Let me share a scenario I personally encountered. One day, I came across an introduction to a Star Wars animation on a video recommendation website. I was drawn to the fancy covering image, which briefly flashed by in the homepage slides. However, I got busy with other things and only had time to search for it later that evening. Without this project, such information would have been almost impossible to find back because, as part of the website’s recommendation system, the content changes every time you refresh the web page. But this time was different, I was able to retrieve the content by searching for the keyword “Star War” and narrowing the search by time range.

Of course, I know that such a feature might seem trivial. Some things are simply forgotten and that’s fine. But what if it is a more important clue, like a bug for the web site which only trigger in some narrow condition and hard to reproduce.

Sorry for the confusing. I gave a bad name "memos" for the project. But there is a great open source project named "memos" over there. So I quickly changed the name to "Pensieve".

Thanks for the advice. I will work on this feature.

It is just a tool...Delete them if you wanna forget. And although I don’t have a photographic memory, there are still some things I can never forget, whether they’re good or bad.

Thanks for the advice I will do more about this part. Currently I am using a package named "ocrmac" it helps a lot.

Thanks for sharing that.They are quite similar. But I found that this project is focusing on searching text. Pensive also enable vlm integration which can search contents without text.

Have you used much python, or are you just buying into the "python slow" memes?

Unless they've done something very very wrong performance will be fine. This isn't doing anything where python's overhead would matter.

It's glueing together some highly optimized code written in other languages, or using python as a DSL to interface with highly optimized libraries like numpy, or generate highly optimized assembly with something like JAX, or if they're really fancy compiling a restricted subset directly to GPU shaders or something.

Python is plenty fast for most stuff, and when it isn't it has one of the best pathways towards optimization.

In fact, this project is indeed very computing-consuming, but it’s not Python’s fault. The main reason lies in the use of several machine learning models:

  1. OCR model
  2. Embedding model
  3. VLM model (optional)