? 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, it can act as a knowledge base. Be aware that transcriptions will then be sent to OpenAI when you chat.
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, 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
- Timeline slider not updating while video playing (timeJumped notification not sent until pause)
- Build process fails on Github (Needs signing cert installed to sign embedded content?)
Refactor
- Extract usage and search bars to own views from ContentView
- Extract episode slider from EpisodeTimelineView into own view
- Duplicate code in vision analysis handlers and get active interval (timeline views)
Feature requests
- Keyboard navigation events: Return to open selected episode, escape to pop timeline view
- Remove close matches from prompt context stuffer
- Incremental index building on embedding store instead of full recompile at query time
- Ideally, wrap FAISS for swift
- Wrap tiktoken in Swift for more accurate context stuffing
- Swift ReAct Agent
- Filter incognito and safari private windows from capture
- Easily copy code blocks in chat
- Fallback to object recognition
- Encryption e.g. Filevault?
Release Notes
Version 0.2 (beta)
- While the application is running (but not while it is active), it records the users screen
- Recordings are labelled according to the first window bought into focus for a given app
- Save recordings as favorites and easily view them from the home screen
- Show usage statistics by application for shown recordings
- Select applications to blacklist which will prevent the application from being recorded
- Search the full text content of screenshots by keywords
- View any instant in time on a sequential timeline showing back to back recordings
- View thumbnails for moments around the current instant in timeline view
- Delete individual episodes through a context menu
- Filter search results by preset time ranges
- User supplied OpenAI key with GPT4 access allows user to ask questions in natural language
- When GPT responds, the source information provided is displayed under the response
- Use arrow keys to navigate recordings
- While Cyte is minimised, pressing Command + Period will bring Cyte into focus
- Pause/resume recording at any time using the Menu Bar icon
- Show files that have been edited with click to reopen
- Intel support with frames every 4 seconds, fast OCR path with no corrections and disabled file tracking
- Right click to reveal recordings in finder
- Right click on feed to batch delete memories
- Right click on feed to export results as timelapse
- Allow user-specified storage directory
- Automatically delete memories older than user specified length
