🧐 Cyte

🚧 Work in progress - this is beta software, use with care

A background screen recorder for easy history search. If you choose to supply an OpenAI key, or a local language model like LLaMA, it can act as a knowledge base. Be aware that transcriptions will be sent to OpenAI when you chat if you provide an OpenAI API key.

Uses

🧠 Train-of-thought recovery

Autosave isn’t always an option, in those cases you can easily recover your train of thought, a screenshot to use as a stencil, or extracted copy from memories recorded.

🌏 Search across applications

A lot of research involves collating information from multiple sources; internal tools like confluence, websites like wikipedia, pdf and doc files etc; When searching for something we don’t always remember the source (or it's at the tip of your tongue)

Features

When no OpenAI key is supplied, and browser context awareness is disabled, Cyte is completely private, data is stored on disk only, no outside connections are made

Pause/Restart recording easily

Set applications that are not to be recorded (while taking keystrokes)

Chat your data; ask questions about work you've done

Development

Happy to accept PRs related to any of the following

Issues

App sandbox is disabled to allow file tracking; instead should request document permissions
Some results from searching fail to highlight the result snippet
Keyboard navigation events: Return to open selected episode, escape to pop timeline view
Apply object recognition per frame
Test automation
Unit tests for Memory
Sync between Cytes
Chat this episode
Split episodes
iPad support

Credits

Thanks to these great open source projects:

DiffMatchPatch: Used to differentiate unchanged and changed text from OCR (macOS)
SwiftDiff: Used to differentiate unchanged and changed text from OCR (iOS)
AXSwift: Used for browser context awareness
KeychainSwift: Used to securely store API keys in the Apple Keychain Manager
SQLite.swift: Used for the text search functionality
XCGLogger: Used to save debug logs to disk
llama.cpp: Used to load and run LLMs for chat when a local model is provided
MacPaw OpenAI: Used to run LLMs for chat when OpenAI API enabled

tshrjn / cytev2_fork