Understand activity instead of saving the whole screen.
Apps, windows, URLs, and interactions are normalized and filtered first.
DeskLore
Your Mac, with a memory of its own.
Turn everyday activity into a readable timeline, without continuous screen recording or uploading raw history.
Computer history should not be a pile of recordings. It should be readable, searchable, and yours to control.
DeskLore focuses on apps, windows, web pages, and interaction semantics, turning scattered activity into a personal timeline.
Readable computer history
What you did today should not depend on memory alone.
DeskLore groups continuous events into clear activity segments, preserving time, context, and sources so your day becomes traceable again.
Consent first. Recording second.
DeskLore processes history locally by default. Visual fallback is off, sensitive surfaces are filtered, and raw events are kept only briefly.
Read the full privacy policyScreenshots are off by default, and raw pixels are not persisted.
Window visuals are added only when semantics are insufficient and the user explicitly enables them.
Timelines and memories are saved as Markdown.
Records include source IDs and can be deleted or regenerated by the user.
From the present moment to history you can revisit.
Read app, window, and interaction semantics through macOS Accessibility.
Remove password fields, private browsing, and sensitive system surfaces at the native capture boundary.
Create searchable Markdown timelines and progressively roll them into long-term memory.
Your history should stay under your control.
DeskLore runs locally and is open source under Apache-2.0. You can inspect how it captures, filters, stores, and deletes data.
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